Parcelized Cut-and-Carry Agroforestry Systems for Confined Livestock

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Parcelized Cut‑and‑Carry Agroforestry Systems for Confined Livestock A. P. Seruni1 · F. X. Aguilar2   · Z. Cai3 · M. A. Gold3 · J. M. Roshetko4 Accepted: 5 September 2020 © The Author(s) 2020

Abstract We characterize a parcelized land management system that does not meet traditional co-located agroforestry practices in the tropics. A cut-and-carry agroforestry system for confined livestock emphasizes land utilization as a source of fodder, cutting and carrying feed from parcels to paddocks near a farmer’s home. It reduces feed cost by utilizing parcels under private, shared, and/or public ownership. Within cut-and-carry systems, we distinguish between those where parcels are managed as monocrops and traditional co-located agroforestry practices. Primary data for our case study were collected by surveying heads of household in Central Java, Indonesia, and analyzed following a capitals-based rural livelihoods framework. A sample of 122 farmers who managed parcels under co-located agroforestry practices was compared against 50 farmers who implemented parcelized monocropping. Overall, the adoption of cut-and-carry systems supports financial resiliency by limiting cash expenditures, facilitating income diversification, and producing assets that meet planned market opportunities and unforeseen cash needs. Survey results show that farmers who engage in parcelized agroforestry have more farming experience, higher farming income, are located at higher elevations, and live farther from the nearest local market. On-farm income among agroforestry cut-and-carry farmers was on average 11.1% higher than those using a cut-and-carry system but only adopting monocrop practices. Land as a biophysical capital asset under full privateownership and at higher altitudes, and longer farming experience as a human capital asset, increased the likelihood of adopting parcelized co-located agroforestry practices. Membership in cash-crop cooperatives as a form of social capital asset was associated with a higher likelihood of managing land as parcelized monocrops. Keywords  Agroforestry · Woodlot · Smallholder · Logistic regression · Propensity score matching · Indonesia

* F. X. Aguilar [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article

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Introduction Agroforestry has long been heralded as a land management system suitable to support rural livelihoods, adapt to a changing climate, diversify revenue sources, and cope with risk (McCabe 2013). In Indonesia, agroforestry has been actively promoted for over 30  years as a low-cost land use system beneficial to smallholder farmers. According to Sabrani and Saepudin (1994) bottomland agronomic systems that integrate tree planting with livestock are widely adopted and effectively contribute to farmers’ enhanced income in Indonesia’s Central Java region. Silvopastural practices have also been adopted in upland agriculture to promote soil conservation by planting nitrogen-fixing and fodder producing trees (e.g. Gli