This article was primarily based on triangulated historical timeline narratives of longtime residents of Barangays Marcelo and Bagong Silang in the rapid rural appraisal for a community forestry program that BIND began implementing in 1995. The section on the growth of the CPP-NPA was based on talks with former leading CPP cadres in the province who are now working with NGOs. The macro data on the sugar industry was based on Filemeno Aguilar?s ?The Making of Cane Sugar: Poverty, Crisis, and Change in Negros Occidental,? a La Salle Monograph.
Conflicting land uses between self-sufficient and monoculture agriculture, community food security versus agricultural export crop production, commercial agricultural encroachment on forestlands often led to intense peasant land and armed struggles against landed elites in Negros Occidental, Philippines.
