Question

Why many communities left their traditional occupations and started trading in forest products ?

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Class 9th Ch - forest society and colonialism

Answer 1

Many communities left their traditional occupations and started trading in forest products because under colonialism, many communities lost their traditional community land rights. For example, tribals in India's forests lost their rights to use forest products. The Masais in Kenya lost their community rights to graze cattle. Due to such developments, communities could no longer practice their traditional occupations. Hence, they sought alternative occupations like trading in forest products.

Answer 2

With the growing demand for rubber in the mid nineteenth century, the Mundurucu people of Brazilian Amazon, who lived in villages on high ground and cultivated manioc, began to collect latex from wild rubber trees for supplying to traders.