The ASB Program: Phase II (1996-1998)

Goals | "Best bet" Land use Systems |
Results & Implications for Development:
[Summary of Achievements | Carbon sequestration & Greenhouse gas fluxes | Aboveground (plant) biodiversity | Belowground biodiversity | Agronomic sustainability | Socioeconomic and policy concerns]

Table 1. Alternative "Best Bet" and other reference* land use systems studied at ASB benchmark sites during phase II

Generic Land Use Types	Specific Systems In
	Indonesia	Cameroon	Brazil
Forest extraction	Community-based forest management; commercial logging	Community-based forest management	Community-based, low impact timber harvests
Complex, multistrata agroforestry systems	Rubber agroforests	Intensive and extensive cocoa with Irvingia, Dacroydes as fruit and shade trees	Agroforests with peach palm, brazil nut and Theobroma grandiflorum
Simple tree crop systems	Rubber monoculture; oil palm / industrial timber monoculture	Cocoa with shade trees; oil palm plantations	Coffee with rubber or Schizolobium amazonicum for veneers.
Crop / fallow systems	Upland rice / bush fallow rotation	Intercropped food fields in short or long fallows	Improved fallows
Continuous cropping systems	Monoculture cassava degrading to Imperata cylindrica
Grasslands / pasture systems	Imperata cylindrica grasslands		Improved pastures with Brachiaria brizantha and P. phaseoloides

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