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Reports & Research
November 2010

Concentration of land ownership, lack of access, insecurity of tenure and lack of efficiency and transparency in land administration services, are among the obstacles towards responsible governance of tenure of land and other natural resources in Latin America. These issues have been the subject…

Journal Articles & Books
November 2010

Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in agricultural investment. In many cases, this new momentum has translated into large-scale acquisitions of farmland in lower- and middle-income countries. Partly as a result of sustained media attention, these acquisitions have triggered lively…

Journal Articles & Books
November 2010

The diversity of forest management experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean shows that sustainable forest management is achievable and can be a highly competitive option in a variety of contexts. Communities, companies, NGOs and the state itself, which owns most of the forests in the…

Reports & Research
November 2010

Land Tenure Working Paper 18. Presents the main themes that characterize the governance in land tenure and analyses the aspects related to the evolution of agricultural policy issues in various Central American countries. It also offers some examples and lessons learned from new models of land…

Reports & Research
October 2010

Los bosques tropicales albergan la mayor diversidad genética del mundo (Cincotta et al., 2000). Sin embargo, estos ecosistemas están siendo drásticamente transformados especialmente por deforestación y sobrexplotación de especies de importancia comercial. En México, 80 % de los recursos…

Policy Papers & Briefs
August 2010

Incentive-based programs to reduce deforestation are expected to play an increasinglyimportant role in global efforts to protect ecosystems and sequester carbon but theirenvironmental effectiveness is not clear. We investigate program effectiveness and slippage in the context of Mexico's…

Policy Papers & Briefs
June 2010

This report summarizes preliminary findings of the Mexican National Database andCommunity Survey Project which examines linkages between institutional characteristics in Mexico’s common property forestry sector and economic and environmental outcomes. Framing the Mexican agrarian community as a…

Regulations
April 2010

El presente ordenamiento tiene por objeto reglamentar la Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y la Protección al Ambiente en su Capítulo IV, Sección VII, en materia de Autorregulación y Auditorías Ambientales. Las Auditorías Ambientales y la Autorregulación, de carácter voluntario, tendrán como…

Journal Articles & Books
December 2009

En enero, abril y junio de 2003 se generaron series de tiempo de las tasas de pas toreo, ingesta y filtración de Acartia clausi utilizando el método de balance, en una estación de muestreo en la Bahía de La Paz, México. Asi mis mo, se determinaron los cambios de la temperatura superficial del…

Journal Articles & Books
December 2009

Lo presente artículo trata de la cuestión de la disputa de tierras por parte de los indios deSan José de Gracia, desde el embate con el propietario de la Hacienda de Paredes, biencomo, posteriormente, hasta el inundamento de las tierras en consecuencia de la construcciónde la presa Calles. El…

December 2009

How has citizen action resulted in national policy change in different parts of the world?
This is the full introduction to the edited volume of the book Making Change Happen, published by Zed Books. It includes case studies, such as: Turkey, where a campaign for women’s rights led to a…

Multimedia
December 2009

Nelida, una joven líder de su comunidad nos relata y muestra la contaminación del Río Grande y sus consecuencias: la tristeza y el sufrimiento de la Yacumama y la Mamapacha, que sufren en silencio al ver como este río cada vez se aleja más de lo que fue hace algunos años. Mientras tanto, los…