Contradictions and false dichotomies in ecogovernance: shifting cultivation as agroforestry
2004
Cabanilla, D.B.(Philippines Univ. Los Baos, College, Laguna (Philippines). Coll. of Forestry and Natural Resources)
This lecture intended to provoke further debate on selected current issues on ecogovernance centered on shifting cultivation by highlighting specific contradictions and false dchotomies embedded in rhetoric and practice. Insights were drawn from first-hand experiences in studying forest communities, supervising graduate students' research on indigenous agroforestry systems, handling a course on shifting cultivation, and reviewing relevant literature. The lecture was organized along its specific objectives. An analysis of a major contradiction in ecogovernance discourses on the "goodness" of agroforestry and the "badness" of shifting cultivation was followed by a re-visitation of the case of Tausug agroforestry systems to illustrate the false dichotomy of science versus indigenous knowledge. The lecture ended by indicating implications of the ideas presented for theory and practice in the forestry and environment sector particularly the University.
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