This paper follows the evolution of the discourse of agricultural productivity, from its inception in colonial land-use mapping to current land-use changes, using a case study of the expansion of an oil palm company onto the territory of an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon that caused large-scale deforestation. Drawing on analytical tools of political ecology and insights from historical geographythis paper shows how current soil and land classification, forest usufruct rules, and forest designations under the 2011 Forest and Wildlife law stem from a colonial discourse of agricultural productivity. This discourse excludes other forms of land-use, such as indigenous forest management, and the identities and relationships bound up in those. This research contributes to an understanding of how the processes that seek to quantify and determine land-use change are historically embedded in western ideas of agricultural productivity.

本文以油棕公司在秘鲁土著社区的扩张为例，研究了农业生产力话语从殖民地土地利用制图的最初发展到当前土地利用变化的演变。造成大规模森林砍伐的亚马逊。本文利用政治生态学的分析工具和历史地理学的见解，展示了根据2011年《森林与野生动物法》制定的现行土壤和土地分类，森林使用权规则和森林名称，是如何从殖民地农业生产力论述中得出的。此论述不包括其他形式的土地利用，例如本地森林管理，以及与之相关的身份和关系。