Conservation farming projects in the Philippine uplands: Rhetoric and reality

Abstract

The phenomenon of agricultural land degradation in the Philippine uplands has been regarded by scientists and policy-makers as a major environmental and rural development problem. Numerous conservation farming projects have been implemented in the past two decades to address this problem, apparently with little success. Most of these projects have espoused the currently fashionable principles of community-based sustainable development. This paper examines case histories of three completed upland conservation projects. The aim is to compare the rhetoric of project documents and evaluations with the reality of on-going land management practices as seen from the perspective of the land managers themselves. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.

Source or Periodical Title

World Development

ISSN

0305750X

Page

911-927

Document Type

Article

Subject

Asia, Philippines, Projects, Soil conservation, Uplands

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