Hunter-gatherer health and development policy: How the promotion of sedentism worsens the Agta's health outcomes.

Many hunter-gatherer groups live on the outskirts of wider society, experiencing poor health outcomes with little access to medical care. From a development perspective, key interventions include the sedentarisation of these mobile peoples into camps nearby larger towns with sanitation infrastructure and medical care, as increased access to services is assumed to improve outcomes. However, recent research in the Agta (Philippine foragers from North-east Luzon) has demonstrated that individuals residing in more 'developed' communities suffer from increased morbidity and mortality. Here, using quantitative and ethnographic data on health collected between 2002 and 2014, we explore why this trend occurs by examining the relationship between key development initiatives with self-reported illness and the uptake of medical interventions with 415 Agta men, women and children. We demonstrate that health outcomes worsen as sedentarisation progresses, despite some increases in medical access. We argue this is because the development paradigm is not evidence-based, but rather stems from an ideological dislike of mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyles. Compounded by cultural insensitivity and daily discrimination, current interventions are ill-suited to the unique needs of hunter-gatherers, and thus ineffective. Based on our findings we offer future short and long-term policy suggestions which seek to reduce the Agta's vulnerability, rather than increase it

Hunter-gatherer health and development policy: How the promotion of sedentism worsens the Agta's health outcomes.

Many hunter-gatherer groups live on the outskirts of wider society, experiencing poor health outcomes with little access to medical care. From a development perspective, key interventions include the sedentarisation of these mobile peoples into camps nearby larger towns with sanitation infrastructure and medical care, as increased access to services is assumed to improve outcomes. However, recent research in the Agta (Philippine foragers from North-east Luzon) has demonstrated that individuals residing in more 'developed' communities suffer from increased morbidity and mortality. Here, using quantitative and ethnographic data on health collected between 2002 and 2014, we explore why this trend occurs by examining the relationship between key development initiatives with self-reported illness and the uptake of medical interventions with 415 Agta men, women and children. We demonstrate that health outcomes worsen as sedentarisation progresses, despite some increases in medical access. We argue this is because the development paradigm is not evidence-based, but rather stems from an ideological dislike of mobile hunter-gatherer lifestyles. Compounded by cultural insensitivity and daily discrimination, current interventions are ill-suited to the unique needs of hunter-gatherers, and thus ineffective. Based on our findings we offer future short and long-term policy suggestions which seek to reduce the Agta's vulnerability, rather than increase it

Data management in anthropology: the next phase in ethics governance?

Recent demands for accountability in ‘data management’ by funding agencies, universities, international journals and other academic institutions have worried many anthropologists and ethnographers. While their demands for transparency and integrity in opening up data for scrutiny seem to enhance scientific integrity, such principles do not always consider the way the social relationships of research are properly maintained. As a springboard, the present Forum, triggered by such recent demands to account for the use of ‘data’, discusses the present state of anthropological research and academic ethics/integrity in a broader perspective. It specifically gives voice to our disciplinary concerns and leads to a principled statement that clarifies a particularly ethnographic position. This position is then discussed by several commentators who treat its viability and necessity against the background of wider developments in anthropology – sustaining the original insight that in ethnography, research materials have been co‐produced before they become commoditised into ‘data’. Finally, in moving beyond such a position, the Forum broadens the issue to the point where other methodologies and forms of ownership of research materials will also need consideration

Cinereous vulture Aegypius monachus: first record for the Philippines

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La formación en contextos interculturales : lecciones aprendidas en diversos países

Se describe el trabajo desarrollado en el convenio SENA-Tropenbos que hace parte de la serie “formación en Gestión Ambiental y Cadenas Productivas Sostenibles” en el que se explican las causas de la brecha educativa que existe entre estudiantes indígenas y afrocolombianos, se compilan experiencias y se presenta un sondeo de elementos para implementación de un programa de formación por proyectos del SENA-TropenbosThe work developed in the SENA-Tropenbos agreement is described as part of the series "Training in Environmental Management and Sustainable Productive Chains" in which the causes of the educational gap that exists between indigenous and Afro-Colombian students are explained, experiences are compiled and a survey of elements for the implementation of a training program by SENA-Tropenbos projects is presentedIntroducción -- ¿Por qué es importante la educación intercultural? -- Desarrollo para el bienestar y educación de la población indígena -- El diseño de una educación intercultural para el bienestar -- Conclusiones y recomendaciones -- Referencias y materiales recomendadosna152 página

Sinking Islands, drowned logic; Climate change and community-based adaptation discourses in Solomon Islands

2020 by the authors. The saltwater people of Solomon Islands are often portrayed to be at the frontline of climate change. In media, policy, and development discourses, the erosion and abandonment of the small, man-made islands along the coast of Malaita is attributed to climate change induced sea-level rise. This paper investigates this sinking islands narrative, and argues that a narrow focus on the projected impacts of climate change distracts attention and resources from more pressing environmental and development problems that are threatening rural livelihoods

Decentralisation of Natural Resource Management: Some Themes and Unresolved Issues

Tulisan ini membahas sejumlah aspek yang terkait dengan proses desentralisasi pengelolaan sumber daya alam. Fokusnya pada sejumlah tema dan isu yang menjadi karakteristik proses tersebut yang sering mengarah pada berbagai bentuk pengelolaan bersama (co-management). Tema-tema dan isu-isu tersebut ditarik dari pengalaman di sejumlah negara, khususnya dari Filipina di mana desentralisasi telah dimulai lebih dari 10 tahun sebelum diterapkan di Indonesia. Sejumlah tema dan isu yang menjadi fokus adalah perbedaan dalam perspektif waktu, hubungan antara sifat sumber daya ekologi dan batas-batas sosial, konsep komuniti dan pengelolaan, proses melemahnya tanggung jawab negara dalam kaitannya dengan kepentingan lokal, peran pihak ke tiga dalam pengelolaan bersama, sifat kontrak dalam pengelolaan sumber daya, sejumlah aspek yang terkait dengan penduduk lokal, dan gagasan tentang keberhasilan dan kegagalan dalam pengelolaan bersama. Dengan mengedepankan isu-isu ini kami berharap dapat memberikan suatu perspektif antropologis terhadap proses yang amat menarik dari desentralisasi pengelolaan sumber daya alam. Kata kunci: desentralisasi; co-management; pengelolaan sumber daya alam.&nbsp