(Dounias et al. 2007; Eder 1988a; Griffin 1996a). Local variations in
the food supply are linked to state-sponsored projects of land and natural resource
exploitation (Hall et al. 2011; Lye et al. 2003). In Peninsular Malaysia, these have
led to, among other effects, watershed mismanagement, pollution, landscape
and habitat fragmentation, wildlife population declines, and the appropriation
of indigenous territories for conversion to monocrop plantations, road and dam
building, and township expansion (Lye 2004: 6–9).5