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Resource Management under Stressed Livelihood Conditions Changing livelihoods and management practices in the bufferzone of the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Kerinci District, Sumatra This research and publication have been made possible by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and the Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University. Field research has been funded by the World Agroforestry Centre, Southeast Asia Regional Programme, Bogor, Indonesia, during a 4-year secondment from the Directorate General for International Cooperation (DGIS), The Hague. The publication of this book was financially sponsored by the Urban and Regional research centre Utrecht (URU). ISBN 979-398-6-8 Figures: Margriet Ganzeveld (GeoMedia, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University) Lay-out and cover: Rien Rabbers (GeoMedia, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University) All photos by the author Copyright: Paul Burgers, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University 2004. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. Resource Management under Stressed Livelihood Conditions Changing livelihoods and management practices in the bufferzone of the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Kerinci District, Sumatra Beheer van hulpbronnen onder toenemende druk op de bestaansmiddelen Veranderende bestaanswijzen en beheerspraktijken in de bufferzone van het Kerinci Seblat Nationaal Park, Kerinci District, Sumatra (met een samenvatting in het Nederlands) Proefschrift Ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Universiteit Utrecht op gezag van de Rector Magnificus, Prof.Dr. W.H. Gispen, ingevolge het besluit van het College voor Promoties in het openbaar te verdedigen op vrijdag 0 december 2004 des namiddags te 4.30 uur door Paulus Petrus Maria Burgers Geboren op 5 mei 964 te Heerlen Promotor: Prof.Dr. M.L. Vellinga Co-promotor: Dr. M.J. Titus Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University Table of Contents Preface 13 1 Introduction 15 2 Indigenous resource management strategies under stressed livelihood conditions; 21 a review of theories, concepts and approaches 2.1 Resources, livelihoods and sustainability in agrarian societies 21 2.1.1 Types of resources 21 2.1.2 Types of livelihoods 22 2.1.3 Sustainability and sustainable livelihoods; nature or people 22 2.2 Views on sustainable resource management and approaches to livelihoods 24 2.2.1 Economic-demographic views on sustainable resource management 24 2.2.2 Political-economic views on sustainable resource management 26 2.2.3 Socio economic views at the local level 27 2.2.4 Socio-cultural views at the local level 29 2.3 Responses to stresses and shocks in local resource use systems 31 2.3.1 Defining stress, shocks and responsive strategies 32 2.3.2 Resource management strategies, livelihood and sustainability at the local level 33 2.3.3 Livelihood and coping strategies at the household level 35 2.4 The position of indigenous forest management in livelihood and coping strategies 37 2.4.1 Role of indigenous forest management in nature conservation and poverty alleviation 38 2.4.2 Worldviews in indigenous forest management systems 40 2.4.3 Understanding indigenous forest management as an adaptive or coping strategy 42 2.4.4 Socio-economic position and type of forest management strategy 44 2.5 Approach of the study 46 2.6 Research questions and methods 48 2.6.1 Research questions 48 2.6.2 Methodology 48 3 Historical and contemporary dimensions of stresses and shocks in Sumatra and 53 Kerinci 3.1 Introduction 53 3.2 Changing rural livelihoods in Sumatra: a politico-historical perspective 53 3.2.1 Sumatra before the Dutch Colonial Rule 54 3.2.2 The Dutch colonial regime in Sumatra 55 3.2.3 A period of returning stresses and shocks; 930s-present 58 3.2.4 Livelihood transformation and social differentiation in Sumatra 62 3.2.5 Changing social organisations and resource allocation mechanisms in Minangkabau 63 society 3.3 Restructuring the Kerinci economy: the effect of development policies on rural 65 livelihoods 3.3.1 The Kerinci Valley before the establishment of Dutch colonial rule 66 3.3.2 Connecting Kerinci with the world: the effects of Dutch development policies 68 3.4 Stresses and shocks from 942 onwards 70 3.5 Village formation processes under stressed livelihood conditions 72 3.5.1 Selampaung; from pioneer subsistence to upland cash crop farming 73 3.5.2 Between survival and accumulation: the emerging village of Masgo 74 3.5.3 Survival strategies in the early 960s; the establishment of Pelompek village 76 3.6 Kerinci District and the research villages at present-day 77 3.6.1 The geographical setting 77 3.6.2 The current livelihood options in the research villages 80 3.6.3 Social differentiation in the study areas 81 3.6.4 Gender differentiation 84 3.7 Conclusion 85 4 Livelihood and coping mechanisms at the community and household level in 87 food crop farming 4.1 Introduction 87 4.2 Informal coping mechanisms: community and kinship institutions of food-crop 89 production in the research villages 4.3 Long-term access to ricefields: permanent ownership 92 4.4 Agricultural intensification and food-security: choosing among different rice varieties 94 4.5 Coping with temporal food insecurity 96 4.5.1 Stabilising or improving food-security in the research villages 98 4.5.2 Sharecropping 99 4.5.3 Land renting and borrowing and short-term labour relations 101 4.5.4 The role of daylabour and group labour in decreasing short term livelihood 103 vulnerability 4.6 Combining strategies aimed at food-security through on-farm cultivation 104 4.6.1 Survey households with their hak gilir at the time of research 105 4.6.2 Alternatives for overcoming food-insecurity in the intervening years. 105 4.6.3 Cultivation regimes followed by survey households excluded from the giliran system. 106 4.7 Conclusion 107 5 The role of the tree-based systems in constructing a sustainable livelihood 111 5.1 Introduction 111 5.2 Changing land cover in the upland areas of the research villages 112 5.3 Multi-strata agroforests in Selampaung and Masgo 117 5.3.1 The agroforest: a winning team 118 5.3.2 The management of the agroforest 120 5.4 Dispersed tree systems in Pelompek 122 5.5 Rice cultivation and agroforest management in household livelihood strategies 127 5.6 Hiring labour in the uplands: paid labour and sharecropping 130 5.7 Household resources and biodiversity management in Selampaung and Masgo 132 5.8 Crop production in the upland fields 136 5.8.1 Production of cinnamon trees 136 5.8.2 Coffee production 137 5.8.3 Vegetable production 138 5.9 Conclusion 139 6 Securing a livelihood: livelihood strategies in the research villages 143 6.1 Introduction 143 6.2 Conditioning factors of livelihood strategies at the household and individual level 143 6.3 Building resilient types of livelihood in Selampaung and Masgo 145 6.3.1 Accumulation strategies in Selampaung and Masgo 147 6.3.2 Survival strategies in Selampaung and Masgo 151 6.3.3 Consolidation strategies in Selampaung and Masgo 155 6.4 Livelihood strategies in Pelompek 158 6.4.1 Accumulation strategies in Pelompek 161 6.4.2 Survival strategies in Pelompek 163 6.4.3 Consolidation strategies in Pelompek 164 6.5 The multiple role of cinnamon trees in the construction of a livelihood 167 6.6 Increased multi-locality for livelihood security 170 6.6.1 The role of local networks and informal institutions 170 6.6.2 Formal aspects of local networks: migration policies in the Kerinci District 172 6.6.3 Formal and informal transnational networks 173 6.7 Conclusion 174 7 Sustainable livelihoods put to the test: the economic crisis and its aftermath 179 (997-2003) 7.1 The monetary and economic crisis in Indonesia 179 7.1.1 From krismon to kristal 180 7.1.2 The agricultural sector during the economic crisis 181 7.2 Price developments and household responses during the krismon in Kerinci 182 (997-998) 7.2.1 Price developments in relation to rice cultivation 182 7.2.2 Price developments and production for major perennial cash crops 183 7.2.3 Price developments for annual crops: chili, potatoes, groundnuts and rice 186 7.3 Migration into Kerinci District 186 7.3.1 Reasons for migration 186 7.3.2 Socio-economic characteristics of migrants 189 7.4 Survival strategies: rice cultivation and short term options for paid labour 190 7.4.1 Survival through rice cultivation 190 7.4.2 Paid labour in livelihood survival: harian and borongan 192 7.5 Accumulation strategies during 997-998; the upland fields 193 7.6 Natural resource management during the windfall (997-998) 195 7.7 The aftermath of the crisis: late 998-2003 197 7.7.1 Price developments of the major crops in the Kerinci District 198 7.7.2 Minimum level of livelihood survival in the upland areas of Selampaung and Masgo 200 7.7.3 Minimum requirements for survival from vegetable cultivation in Pelompek 202 7.8 Household response mechanisms in the aftermath of the crisis 203 7.8.1 Multi-local livelihoods and migration 203 7.8.2 Revival of traditional sharecropping deals for livelihood survival 205 7.8.3 The introduction of formal safety nets 206 7.9 Natural resource management 207 7.10 Conclusion 208 8 Summary, conclusion and epilogue 213 8.1 Summary and conclusion 213 8.1.1 Dynamics in sustainable livelihoods under conditions of stress and shock 213 8.1.2 Livelihoods and social change: new and old forms of building security 213 8.1.3 Increasing portfolios of activities and