The existing legal framework for water resources management in Guatemala is obsolete, inconsistent and not enforced. To bridge the gap, many indigenous and non-indigenous communities throughout the country successfully regulate water use through oral or written bylaws. This paper classifies the…
Doing business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 10 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business,…
Doing business sheds light on how easy or difficult it is for a local entrepreneur to open and run a small to medium-size business when complying with relevant regulations. It measures and tracks changes in regulations affecting 10 areas in the life cycle of a business: starting a business,…
Es ampliamente reconocido que una de las principales causas de la deforestación y la degradación de los bosques radica en el alto costo de oportunidad del manejo forestal sostenible (MFS), lo que suele conllevar a un cambio de uso del suelo hacia alternativas como la agricultura, la agro-…
This study is intended to contribute to the effective implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines by exploring ways of monitoring the governance of tenure of land, fisheries and forests and providing a civil society perspective on monitoring in the context of the Guidelines. It provides an…
Los programas de atención a la reducción de emisiones provenientes de la deforestación o degradación de los ecosistemas, como es el caso de REDD+ y otros programas de incentivos forestales como son los pagos por servicios ambientales (PSA), podrían constituir una oportunidad para el…
El presente documento es el resultado de un estudio multidisciplinario sobre las consecuencias de los proyectos de regularización de la tenencia de la tierra ejecutados en el ámbito rural de Petén patrocinados por diferentes donantes externos y por el mismo Gobierno de Guatemala. Aunque fueron…
Como una contribución a la seguridad alimentaria, el autor propone, a partir de una descripción técnica detallada, el desafío de entender y promover sistemas de producción tradicionalmente utilizados por las familias campesinas indígenas en Guatemala, que combinadas constituyen una perspectiva…
Large-scale land acquisitions by investors, which are often called ‘land grabs’ (see next section for de nition), can deprive rural women and communities of their livelihoods and land, increasing their food insecurity. This report argues that the current rise in land grabbing needs to be…
The author uses a large household data set from Guatemala to analyze how the receipt of internal remittances (from Guatemala) and international remittances (from the United States) affects the marginal spending behavior of households on various consumption and investment goods. Contrary to other…
<h5>The new baseline report on ActionAid's Women's Land Rights Project highlights the need for indigenous women in Guatemala, Dalit women in India, and rural women affected by HIV and AIDS in Sierra Leone to gain actual realisation of their land rights. The report suggests that …