XI WORLD FORESTRY CONGRESS Antalya, Turkey, 13 to 22 October 1997
	VOLUME 3, TOPIC 12 SUMMARIES OF VOLUNTARY PAPERS REBUILDING DEGRADED ECOSYSTEMS: A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY FORESTRY APPROACH Carlos Antonio Alvares Soares Ribeiro1 and Laércio Couto2 In Brazil, over 20 million hectares of degraded land have currently been identified as being available and suitable for commercial reforestation projects (Ab'Saber, 1990). The common practice is to establish large areas of monocultures, mainly eucalypt or pine plantations. This alternative for land rehabilitation, however, does little to promote biodiversity. A key point for well-designed and successful reforestation projects is to take into consideration a broader range of both native and exotic species to re-occupy the land, as well as agricultural crops, if the approval and commitment of local communities is to be achieved. Ribeiro et al. (1996) proposed a new approach that generates a temporal and spatial mosaic of several species and promotes sustained yield by the end of the establishment of a reforestation project. This approach also ensures spatial rotation of species at the stand level, thus improving carrying capacity while reducing soil exploitation. The methodology is flexible enough to accommodate a large variety of designs, including those of agroforestry. The careful matching of species to sites plays a fundamental role in the improvement of biodiversity, not precluding antropic activities. The objective of this paper is to address the problem of land rehabilitation through community forestry projects that promote a diverse, steady and solid agroforestry-based economy while being environmentally sound. Management guidelines are derived so as to achieve both forest regulation structure and different production goals for the different species that integrate the project. A hypothetical case study is thus presented. Keywords: Reforestation, land rehabilitation, sustainable community forestry 1 Associate Professor, Department of Forest Engineering, Federal University of Vicosa; 36571-000 Vicosa-MG BRAZIL Tel:+55-31-899-1186 Fax:+55-31-899-2478; e-mail: cribeiro@mail.ufv.br 2 Professor, Department of Forest Engineering, Federal University of Vicosa; 36571-000 Vicosa-MG BRAZIL Tel:+55-31-899-1199 Fax:+55-31-899-2478; e-mail: lcouto@mail.ufv.br Previous Section Next Section   Download the Pdf file for this topic (332 K) What is a Pdf file ?   Back to Top of the page
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