It's good for the forest and it's traditional
Indigenous ecologies and land management at the community/NGO interface in southern Belize
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2263533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristina Baines (0000-0002-3499-116X, City University of New York, corresponding author), Pablo Miss (Julian Cho Society Punta Gorda Belize), Pablo Mi |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 11-22 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Agriculture Food and Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2153-9553 • E-ISSN: 2153-9561 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/cuag.12315 |
| OpenAlex | W4394836930 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
In 2019, the Maya Leaders Alliance unveiled "The Future We Dream," a vision document sharing a common interest among the Mopan and Q'eqchi' Maya people of Belize for a future in which they are committed to sustaining a reciprocal relationship with and stewardship of the land. In this context, this paper shares results from three communities bordering a forest reserve who were asked to identify important practices, which they considered "traditional" and "environmentally sustainable," as part of a collaborative NGO project to promote indigenous forest management. Through analysis of data collected alongside Indigenous Community Promoters (ICPs), it explores how these terms were defined and deployed to discuss healthy forests and healthy communities. The paper discusses how collaborative and community-led data collection addresses both the need to decolonize sustainability discourse and produce better data for better project outcomes (Maya, traditional ecological knowledge, forest management, environmental sustainability, indigenous land rights
Agroforestry · Alliance · Business · Context (archaeology · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Indigenous · Maya · Political science · Politics · Stewardship (theology · Sustainability · Traditional knowledge · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Ecology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |