1. Agricultural Led Economic Development in Rural Borneo: Agroforestry in Tambunan District of Sabah
Michael C. Farmer, Associate Professor 
Agricultural and Applied Economics   & Natural Resources Management
President, Faculty Senate
Texas Tech University

2. What is the Project? And Study?
Restore Abandoned highland parcels to use as sustainable high valued tropical mixed fruit and timber products.
Process fruits into purees for export: to be used in hotels and health food drinks (such as unpasteurized fruit yogurt drinks)
Develop of Fair Trade Cooperative to share risks and rewards
Partly restore forest function
Establish Model for Local Owned and Capitalized Rural Enterprise

3. Activities Survey of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital
(Public Sector Crowding out)
Set up Study Design for 25 acres of Land from Tambunan District
Set up Coop terms
Conduct Product Marketing/ Taste Tests/Willingness to Pay in:
Local International Hotels in Sabah
2 Hong Kong Hotels and Grocery Stores

4. World Wildlife Designation

5. Dotted Area is Highland Less suited for Palm Oil
Man and Biosphere Site (in cricle)
Within Dotted Area is:
Area Includes more than 1 Million Persons
Ecologically Richer than Valley Floors
Has to engage Locals in Economic Development
&
Must respect Ecological Integrity
Study Area

6. *Why Tambunan? Less Wealthy Rice Farmers Labor Shortage and
Unused or Under-Used Land

7. Rice Below and Montane

8. And again – Mountains Pervasive (Croker Range)

9. Perfect Study Area
Looking to Mt. Kinabalu

10. *Land Use Change Example
From This

11. To This
2014

12. With This Effect

13. Contacts With Locals

14. Final Similar to “C”

15. What Crops Do You Suggest?
Rambutan
Mangosteen
Langsat (?)
SourSop
Agar Wood
Rubber
Bannana / Cocao
Ginger
Chile
Pineaple
Takes 5 to 7 years
To Get a Crop
Takes 2 years to get crop
6 months to 15 months

16. Initial Hypotheses Only Two Trees Same Species Adjacent
Many different Trees
(can be coffees and cocoa)
Thinly Spaced Connected by pathways
Allows cropping in occasional clearings
Mitigates Pest – an IPM Strategy
Also IPM but has niche Market Benefits
Augments IPM
Fewer Ecological Disturbances
Responds to labor shortage
Slow rotational ginger and peppers

17. *Best Prices Product Label? Borneo Forest Grown What do you think??
Environment Friendly
Green Label
Man and Biosphere Region
Product Label?
Borneo Forest Grown
What do you think??

19. My Welcoming Committee
On My Hotel
Balcony