SLIMs
Channel: Gekko Studio
Date: 20/04/2015

SLIM's
Sustainable Livelihoods Initiatives and Models

Forests have an economic contribution to human. For many years, Indonesian forests managed for the sake of economy. Unfortunately, the economic growth often resulted in exploitation and environmental degradation. Besides that, the life’s quality of the communities who live around the forests didn’t change from the state of poverty, inequality, and being left out. That’s why the forest management has to be linked to the development goals, such as poverty, food, climate change, human rights, gender and environmental issues. The concept of development has to combine the welfare improvement with the effort to reduce the environmental risks and ecological damage. The communities in these several areas have implemented the concept of the green economy. Their economic activities around the forests not only increase their income, but also preserve and protect the forests around them indirectly. Even though it’s still on the small scale, but what they do can inspire us and showed that the economic growth and sustainable environment can go hand in hand. 

Produced by :
NTFP-EP | Telapak-GekkoStudio

Local Partners :
YMI | YGB | WARSI

Supported by :
Ecosystem Alliance