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Exploring sustainable land use pathways for ecosystems, food security and poverty alleviation: opportunities for Indonesia’s food estate programme
Our Objectives
We're co-developing land-use scenarios that integrate climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation, farmer livelihoods, and broader food security needs through participatory research and training.
Our work across three strategic provinces is addressing Indonesia's complex food security challenge. Explore our emerging findings.
Our Approach
A focus on systems
We look at three contrasting case study sites in Indonesia:
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East Kalimantan
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Gorontalo
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West Papua
We are highlighting the interrelationships between food estate land use change in these sites, and how this interacts with both ecosystem and livelihood transitions.
This approach allows us to highlight opportunities to more sustainably manage biodiversity, increase climate resilience, and address livelihood and food security concerns.
Latest findings, engagement and impact
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The LEAF Indonesia team shares its findings through academic and non-academic publications, workshops, and social media.
Tracking twenty years of forest loss
Analysis by the LEAF Indonesia team reveals an unprecedentedly detailed picture of the environmental consequences of these changes in the years 2000-2020, with close-up analyses of our three focus provinces: Gorontalo, East Kalimantan and West Papua. Read more about our findings.
Sustainable Food Estates: Implementation, impacts and opportunities
Our story map takes you through an overview of Indonesia’s food security challenge. We introduce you to the three provinces where we are working with rural communities to understand the impacts of food estates on biodiversity, climate resilience and livelihoods and to try to imagine a more sustainable model for food estates into the future. Explore the full story map.
Local wisdom for sustainable and inclusive land-use
From longstanding indigenous traditions of communal forest farming to more recent initiatives in multifunctional land use, communities across rural Indonesia balance a range of ecological and socioeconomic needs. National initiatives to increase food production can and should engage with these local contexts. Read more about our engagement with indigenous and local communities.
We present our research at conferences and seminars, and engage with stakeholders in workshops in Indonesia.
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Team
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This project is funded by the Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate (GCBC).
The Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate (GCBC) is a UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) programme that aims to support developing countries to shape decision-making and develop policies that better value, protect, restore and sustainably manage biodiversity in ways that tackle climate change resilience and poverty alleviation. The GCBC is funded by the UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and managed in partnership with DAI Global.
