This document summarizes current findings from an evaluation of Mexico’s National Payments for Hydrological Services from 2003-2010. Th evaluation seeks to understand the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the program, with the goal of extracting lessons learned and identifying room for…
Somos mujeres con historias y luchas comunes por la vida, la tierra, los territorios, la Soberanía Alimentaria, la justicia, la dignidad; mujeres que compartimos saberes y experiencias, convencidas que las ideas como las semillas cuando se intercambian crecen y se multiplican.
Tras dos años de trayectoria, el proyecto Apoderándola para adelantar el desarrollo económico, cuyo objetivo principal es proveerle herramientas a mujeres agricultoras para que puedan iniciar o manejar su agroempresa de manera exitosa, ha impactado aproximadamente a 100 féminas. Se trata de una…
Las mujeres mexicanas que viven en comunidades rurales enfrentan problemas para ser propietarias de la tierra o ser herederas, ya que se considera principalmente a los varones para estos casos.
Este tutorial brinda información útil sobre los derechos de propiedad o posesión que tienen las mujeres rurales sobre la tierra.
Hace algunas semanas se realizó la VI Conferencia Internacional de la Vía Campesina, desde allí se levantó un manifiesto que circula y señalan: “Somos mujeres de los diversos continentes y culturas, con historias y luchas comunes por la vida, por nuestra emancipación y la de nuestros pueblos,…
There is an ongoing debate on the effect different property regimes have on the use of natural resources and land conversion (i.e., deforestation or reforestation). Much of the discussion has been centered on the two main forms of tenure regime: common-pool system and private property. Case…
Mapping and monitoring wetland ecosystems over large geographic areas based on remote sensing is challenging because of the spatial and spectral complexities of the inherent ecosystem dynamics. The main objective of this research was to develop and evaluate a new method for detecting and…
Land degradation mapping is a problem-solving task that aims to provide information for allocating budgets and materials to counter the deterioration of land resources. Typically, it entails the implementation of a set of indicators in a GIS to appraise the severity of land degradation across a…
Mexico’s 1992 agrarian counter-reforms opened up the country’s vast network of common property regimes, known as ejidos, to the possibility of privatization. This study investigates the relationship between dynamic common property regimes and deforestation in the wake of policy reform among…
This article argues that policy making is an interactive and ongoing process that transcends the spatio-temporal boundaries drawn by a linear, rational or instrumental model of policy. We construct this argument by analysing the making of the Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) policy in Mexico…