Indigenous practices and state policy in the sustainable management of agricultural lands and forests in the Cordillera
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1994
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University of the Philippines College Baguio, Cordillera Studies Center, PH
Abstract
The general problem being addressed is how the patterns of natural resource use are defined in local practices in the community, how these local practices are affected by policy and activities of groups interested in the resource, and what these interactions imply for sustainability as indicated by the quality of life and environment. // We did full community studies in four sites (counting Mt. Data and Sinto barangays as, the Mount Data Plateau). In reverse order of proximity to Baguio (see Map on page ll), which is also (not coincidentally) in reverse order of extent of integration into the market, we begin with two communities in Sagada, Mountain Province (Suyo and Patay) which have begun to be commercialized, albeit in two different fashions. At the boundary between Mountain Province and Benguet we have barangays at the Mount Data plateau, where the mossy oak forest is being converted to commercial vegetable crop production in a process that has been going on for some twenty years. Finally, only fifty-two kilometers from Baguio, although over two hours travel time on rough road, lies Paoay, Atok, which has been producing temperate vegetables since the American period…
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MOUNTAINS, NATURAL RESOURCES, RESOURCES UTILIZATION, RESOURCES DEPLETION, RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, CUSTOMARY LAW, GOVERNMENT POLICY, LAND TENURE, LAND OWNERSHIP, PHILIPPINES