CRC 990 - EFForTS - Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

CRC 990 Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia) Issue 1 / August 2013
- Toy-model of land-use change (work in progress)
- A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model
of land-use change in Indonesia (work in progress)
- Manuscript on hydrological functions in oil palm
plantations (Tarigan et al. in progress).
B12 (since Jan 2013)
Title: Reproductive strategies of flowering plants
in tropical rainforest transformation systems
Team: Elvira Hörandl (UGoe), Sri Sudarmiyati Tjitrosoedirdjo
(BIOTROP/IPB), Sri Rahayu (LIPI), Nicole
Opfermann (PhD student)
Aim:
What is the role of apomixis (= asexual reproduction
via seed) in invasive weeds?
Group C
C01
Title: Smallholder productivity, market access, and
international linkages in rubber and palm oil
production in Jambi Province
Team: Bernhard Brümmer (UGoe), Zulkifli Alamsyah
(UNJA), Rina Oktaviani, Dedi Budiman Hakim
(IPB), Anna Mareike Holtkamp, Thomas Kopp
(PhD students)
Aims: - Elucidate the differences in technical and environmental
efficiency between smallholders
- Analyze rubber and palm oil value chains from
domestic to international markets
Current status:
- Smallholder survey of 208 farmer in the 5 regions
of the household survey (one third of the
farmers)
- Collection of plant abundance data as well as
identification of most of the species in a 5x5m
square and soil samples on the main plot
- Linkage of the economic data to our biodiversity
data
- Plant abundance data and the soil are analyzed
together with A and B subgroups
C02
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- Survey with 335 local traders in
the 5 regions of the household
survey (around 80% of all active
traders in the region) conducted
- Both buying and selling price data from five rubber
producing factories collected
Title: Cultural Landscape Transformation: A Geographical
Analysis of the Current Cultural
Landscape Transformation & The international
climate negotiations and their implications
for forest policies and resource access
in Indonesia
Team: Heiko Faust, Christoph Dittrich (UGoe), Endriatmo
Soetarto, Soeryo Adiwibowo (IPB), Rosyani
(UNJA), Ivonne Kunz, Barbara Beckert, Jonas
Hein (PhD students)
Aim: - Identify conditions and drivers of present cultural
landscape transformation
- Analyse the impact of cultural landscape transformation
on rural livelihoods
- Identify local adaptation strategies to changing
conditions.
- Identifying impacts of international climate discourses
on local forest protection policies and
the on the valuation of natural resources.
- Identifying actors, local negotiations and REDD
demonstration activities
- Identifying early impacts on land use patterns
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