Indigenous Affairs 1/09: The Kalahan Forests and carbon: a Philippines case study

Publication language: English
Country publication is about: Philippines, Filipinas
Region publication is about: Asia

Tags: Climate

In 1974 the Ikalahan people of Santa Fe in the northern Philippines finally, after three years of negotiations, signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Philippine Government recognizing the control of the Ikalahan over about 15,000 hectares of their ancestral land in exchange for protecting the water supply for the users downstream. There was no precedent for such an agreement. There was no government program and it was the people themselves who initiated the negotiations.

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