Land Use Practices

Indigenous territories and governance of forest restoration in the Xingu River (Brazil)

Background

Indigenous exploitation and management of tropical forest resources: an evolutionary continuum in forest-people interactions

Background

Forests, food, and fuel in the tropics: the uneven social and ecological consequences of the emerging political economy of biofuels

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Violent enclosures, violated livelihoods: environmental and military territoriality in a Philippine frontier

Background

Historically, agrarian change in the Philippines involved shifts in land enclosure, from colonial and church usurpation to capitalist intensification and protected areas, sparking peasant resistance and the rise of insurgent groups like the New People's Army (NPAs). Currently, in Palawan, military operations against the NPA often conflate peasants and insurgents. These military actions converge with conservation in national park buffer zones, creating restrictive and politically charged spaces for indigenous groups like the Tagbanua. Authorities frequently stigmatize their traditional land use as criminal, such as swidden farming.