Regenerating conflicted landscapes in post-war El Salvador: livelihoods, land policy, and land use change in the Cinquera Forest (original) (raw)

The dream of the neighboring communities of the forest is nothing less than to conserve, for always, for the present and future generations, our biological and historical riches inherited as a result of the armed conflict in which we were protagonists. (Associación de Reconstrucción y Desarollo Municipal de Cinquera 2004: 5) The expansion of 'peasant' claims from land as an economic asset to land as a component in a total ecosystem amounts to the redefinition of land as a primary economic value to land as but one kind of value within a larger panoply of generalized value.