Over the last few days, we’ve had a chance to begin speaking with people from a few different communities in the region and are beginning to hear the stories associated with the landscape. Although some of these processes are well documented, particularly land use transitions associated with timber extraction from the Selva Lacanada, the rise of maize cultivation and cattle raising by small-holder farmers , we have started to observe the rise of palm oil plantations. There are a number of palm plantations that appear along the major roadways outside of Palenque, but it seems that palm oil plantations are also appearing further south, where small-holder farming prevails.
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