Understanding the resilience of swidden agroecosystems interacting with rubber and oil palm production regimes in the Philippines

• Main Authors: Josol, Ma. Rose Cristy, Montefrio, Marvin Joseph F.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2013
• Subjects: Shifting cultivation—Philippines; Rubber plantations—Philippines; Oil palm—Philippines; Resilience (Ecology); Agricultural and Resource Economics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/8320
• Institution: De La Salle University

Currently, smallholder farmers in the Philippines and elsewhere are being engaged in the production of rubber and oil palm for global consumption. Among these smallholder farmers are indigenous peoples who continue to practice traditional forms of swidden agriculture. There is then a propensity for...