Outlining the dynamics of forest landscape and farmer lifescape in a village forest profile in Indonesia

Abstract

This study aims to analyse the dynamics of the forest landscape and lifescape of forest farmer groups in the Labbo village forest, South Sulawesi province, Indonesia. Several stakeholders are identified on a co-managing, protecting and utilizing resources such as villagers, forest farmer groups, farmers, village officials, forest officers. Data collection methods used in this study are resource mapping, social mapping, and interviews. The method is deployed to determine trends in the changes of forest landscape dynamics and the lifescape of farmers in the Labbo village forest. The results show that there is a tendency on good performance both landsacape and lifescape dimension due to the good multistakeholder collaboration that not only on capacity building interbention but also introducing good knowledge production.