ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses one of the main research questions of this study: To what extent were the community members affected by introduced land- and forest-management practices, such as those promoted by the government, NGOs, commercial companies, and multinational corporations? Three subthemes emerge from participants’ stories: the first centers on the community’s perceptions of current management projects (governmental and nongovernmental agencies’ land-, water-, and forest-management projects); the second details the projects themselves, contrasting external administrative tenets with traditional Indigenous practices (specifically, the commercial Brickfield industrial company project, the for-profit tobacco plantation project, the wood-plants plantation, and reserve forest projects); and the third illuminates visible and invisible consequences of the above-mentioned land-management projects, including effects impacting women and species populations. The following section discusses the above three themes and their impacts in relation to community perceptions.
