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Ecological Changes and Local Knowledge Shifts in an Indigenous Honey Gathering Community in the Philippines. Poster on Tropentag 2017

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doi:10.60507/FK2/KQEYGA
Published version
1.0
Publication date
2023-09-18
License
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Description

One of the traditional livelihood practices of indigenous Tagbanuas in Palawan, Philippines is wild honey gathering from the giant honey bee. In order to analyse the linkages of the social and ecological systems involved in this indigenous practice, we conducted spatial, quantitative, and qualitative analysis on field data gathered through GPS mapping, community surveys, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. We found that only 24% of the 251 local community members surveyed could correctly identify the giant honey bee. Inferential statistics showed that a lower level of education and higher household vegetation contribute to correct identification of the giant honey bee. Spatial analysis revealed that mean NDVI of sampled nesting tree areas has dropped from 0.61 in the year 1988 to 0.41 in 2015. This reduction on vegetation cover may contribute to reduced bee-human interactions and may also be an indication that commercialising non-timber forest products is not fulfiling its objective of development alongside conservation. Indigenous wild honey hunting and gathering as an ICDP shows the complexity of the social-ecological system of forest communities. It also shows the difficulty of getting a win-win situation out of simultaneous pursuit of forest conservation and rural development. Knowledge shifts can, indeed, occur from the interaction of ecological and social factors and we see that if resource management interventions do not employ a systems approach, it can overlook important feedback. NGO interventions should not only facilitate the learning of visible resource managers like wild honey hunters but of the community as a whole. Further location tags: Aborlan Sagpangan Quality/Lineage: NATRIPAL has given access to profit data of wild honey enterprise and, together with survey data, gross margin analysis have been applied. Purpose: This poster has been presented at Tropentag 2017 session 3.4 Knowledge systems.

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Keywords

non-timber forest product, value chain analysis, indigenous honey hunting, forest honey, environment

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Citation

Christian Borgemeister, 2023-09-18, Ecological Changes and Local Knowledge Shifts in an Indigenous Honey Gathering Community in the Philippines. Poster on Tropentag 2017, doi:10.60507/FK2/KQEYGA, V1.0

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Dataset Typedataset
Internal Version Number8
Latest Version Publishing StateRELEASED
Deaccession LinkNot supplied
Release Time2023-09-18T10:32:25Z
Create Time2023-09-18T08:54:49Z
Citation Date2023-09-18
File Access RequestTrue

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Title title
Ecological Changes and Local Knowledge Shifts in an Indigenous Honey Gathering Community in the Philippines. Poster on Tropentag 2017
Other Id otherId
  1. Other Id Agency
    ZEF Data Portal
    Other Id Value
    266a43a8-4ac3-47d5-b8db-8896413b022c
Author author
  1. Author Name
    Christian Borgemeister
    Author Affiliation
    Center for Development Research, Department Ecology and Natural Resources Management (ZEF C), University of Bonn
Dataset Contact datasetContact
  1. Dataset Contact Name
    Denise Margaret Matias
    Dataset Contact Affiliation
    Center for Development Research, Department Ecology and Natural Resources Management (ZEF C), University of Bonn
    Dataset Contact Email
    denise.matias@uni-bonn.de
  2. Dataset Contact Name
    Christian Borgemeister
    Dataset Contact Affiliation
    Center for Development Research, Department Ecology and Natural Resources Management (ZEF C), University of Bonn
    Dataset Contact Email
    cb@uni-bonn.de
Ds Description dsDescription
  1. Ds Description Value
    One of the traditional livelihood practices of indigenous Tagbanuas in Palawan, Philippines is wild honey gathering from the giant honey bee. In order to analyse the linkages of the social and ecological systems involved in this indigenous practice, we conducted spatial, quantitative, and qualitative analysis on field data gathered through GPS mapping, community surveys, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. We found that only 24% of the 251 local community members surveyed could correctly identify the giant honey bee. Inferential statistics showed that a lower level of education and higher household vegetation contribute to correct identification of the giant honey bee. Spatial analysis revealed that mean NDVI of sampled nesting tree areas has dropped from 0.61 in the year 1988 to 0.41 in 2015. This reduction on vegetation cover may contribute to reduced bee-human interactions and may also be an indication that commercialising non-timber forest products is not fulfiling its objective of development alongside conservation. Indigenous wild honey hunting and gathering as an ICDP shows the complexity of the social-ecological system of forest communities. It also shows the difficulty of getting a win-win situation out of simultaneous pursuit of forest conservation and rural development. Knowledge shifts can, indeed, occur from the interaction of ecological and social factors and we see that if resource management interventions do not employ a systems approach, it can overlook important feedback. NGO interventions should not only facilitate the learning of visible resource managers like wild honey hunters but of the community as a whole. Further location tags: Aborlan Sagpangan Quality/Lineage: NATRIPAL has given access to profit data of wild honey enterprise and, together with survey data, gross margin analysis have been applied. Purpose: This poster has been presented at Tropentag 2017 session 3.4 Knowledge systems.
Subject subject
  1. Other
Subject Refinement subjectRefinement
  1. Subject Refinement Value
    environment
Free Keyword freeKeyword
  1. Free Keyword Value
    non-timber forest product
  2. Free Keyword Value
    value chain analysis
  3. Free Keyword Value
    indigenous honey hunting
  4. Free Keyword Value
    forest honey
  5. Free Keyword Value
    environment
Topic Classification topicClassification
  1. Topic Class Value
    environmental enterprise
    Topic Class Vocab
    GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
  2. Topic Class Value
    forest product
    Topic Class Vocab
    GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
  3. Topic Class Value
    bee
    Topic Class Vocab
    GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
  4. Topic Class Value
    insect
    Topic Class Vocab
    GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
Notes Text notesText
This dataset was first published on the institutional Repository "Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung: ZEF Data Portal" with ID={266a43a8-4ac3-47d5-b8db-8896413b022c}.
Language language
  1. English
Date Of Collection dateOfCollection
  1. Date Of Collection Start
    2017-10-24T12:00:00
    Date Of Collection End
    2017-10-24T12:00:00
Other References otherReferences
  1. NATRIPAL, NTFP-EP Asia

Geospatial Metadata

Geographic Coverage geographicCoverage
  1. Country
    Philippines
  2. Other Geographic Coverage
    Aborlan
  3. Other Geographic Coverage
    Sagpangan
  4. Other Geographic Coverage
    Palawan
Geographic Bounding Box geographicBoundingBox
  1. West Longitude
    118.18818664161536
    East Longitude
    118.80342101652985
    North Latitude
    9.821832124616694
    South Latitude
    9.502333273266968

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