Political ecology and cultural change: impacts on swidden-fallow agroforestry practices among the Mopan Maya in Southern Belize. STEINBERG, M. The Professional Geographer, 50(4):407–417, 1998. ![Political ecology and cultural change: impacts on swidden-fallow agroforestry practices among the Mopan Maya in Southern Belize [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Little agroecological research examines indigenous agroforestry practices that appear to be unsustainable, and how such practices devolved from more environmentally sound land use strategies that have been documented by geographers and others. This paper discusses the political ecological factors that led the Mopan Maya to reject a diverse swidden-fallow management strategy for a system where an abandoned milpa provides few forest products. In doing so, this paper explains the process whereby cultural change, in this case rejection of certain agricultural traditions, leads to a less diverse agricultural landscape and ultimately a less diverse biological landscape.
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