Community readiness on managing agroforestry of candlenut and coffee

Abstract

Local communities around the Lore Lindu National Park have practiced agroforestry, including candlenut and coffee, which benefited not only for the livelihood of the communities but also for conservation of the national park area. This study aims to analyze the community readiness by the actors of each agroforestry system as a reference for the development of the two agroforestry systems. Based on the CRM approach, the community of candlenut agroforestry actors had a higher level of readiness (6.2 and 5.1) compared to coffee agroforestry actors have (4,9 and 4,7). The t-test analysis shows the difference between the five CRM dimensions. Those indicate that knowledge is significantly different between the readiness level of both the candlenut and coffee agroforestry communities. The value of the knowledge dimension in the candlenut agroforestry community is greater than the readiness value of the coffee agroforestry community. The knowledge factor is the most critical dimension to get attention in the agroforestry development effort.