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Forests, Water, and Land Use Change across the Central American Isthmus: Mapping the Evidence Base for Terrestrial Holocene Palaeoenvironmental Proxies

Forests

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Belize
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Urban Tenure
land management
An ever-increasing demand for agriculture while conserving biodiversity, maintaining livelihoods, and providing critical ecosystem services is one of the largest challenges for tropical land management across the Central American Isthmus today. Climatic and anthropogenic drivers threaten to cause changes in the forest cover and composition for this region, and therefore, understanding the dynamics of these systems and their variability across space and through time is important for discerning current and future responses.
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Using Spatial Planning Tools to Identify Potential Areas for the Harnessing of Ocean Currents in the Mexican Caribbean

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2022
Mexico
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
land-use planning
A spatial analysis was carried out to evaluate the compatibility of human activities and biophysical characteristics in the Mexican Caribbean Sea, in order to identify the most viable areas for energy generation from ocean currents and the areas where the population would most benefit from such energy projects. Of the study area, 82% have some form of protection legislation. Tourism is the main economic activity in the area and this is reflected in a wide range of activities and services that often overlap within the same spatial area.
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Green Belt Implementation in Arid Lands through Soil Reconditioning and Landscape Design: The Case of Hermosillo, Mexico

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2022
Mexico
Urban Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
land tenure
Green belts are an urban planning approach meant to address urban sprawl and enhance resilience. Many Latin American cities located in arid lands would benefit from the green belt; however, little is known about the factors that determine green belt implementation in these regions. The purpose of this study is to fill this gap by examining the case of Hermosillo, Mexico, a rapidly growing city located in a desert environment with an envisioned green belt.
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Using Spatial Planning Tools to Identify Potential Areas for the Harnessing of Ocean Currents in the Mexican Caribbean

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2022
Mexico
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
land conflicts
A spatial analysis was carried out to evaluate the compatibility of human activities and biophysical characteristics in the Mexican Caribbean Sea, in order to identify the most viable areas for energy generation from ocean currents and the areas where the population would most benefit from such energy projects. Of the study area, 82% have some form of protection legislation. Tourism is the main economic activity in the area and this is reflected in a wide range of activities and services that often overlap within the same spatial area.
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Characterizing Urban Expansion Combining Concentric-Ring and Grid-Based Analysis for Latin American Cities

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina
Urban Tenure
urban land
Spatio-temporal characterization of urban expansion is the first step towards understanding how cities grow in space. We summarize two approaches used in urban expansion measurement, namely, concentric-ring analysis and grid-based analysis. Concentric-ring analysis divides urban areas into a series of rings, which is used to quantify the distance decay of urban elements from city centers. Grid-based analysis partitions a city into regular grids that are used to interpret local dynamics of urban growth.
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Spatial Targeting of Agricultural Support Measures: Indicator-Based Assessment of Coverages and Leakages

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Mexico
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land tenure
Agricultural support programs distribute payments to farms based on a diverse set of policy objectives. Adequate targeting of this support to priority areas is key to efficient and effective policy. We evaluated the targeting strategy of a national-level program in Mexico that distributed support based on seven criteria that prioritized poor smallholder farming communities at high risk of cropland failure. We used a series of logistic models to assess the coverage and leakage rates of the program’s targeting strategy and found rates of about 80 and 20 percent, respectively.
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Overcoming Key Barriers for Secondary Cloud Forest Management in Mexico

Land

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Mexico
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Gender
Forest Tenure
land tenure
Secondary cloud forests (SCFs), those that regenerate naturally following abandonment of human activities in previously deforested land, are of great value as refuges of high species diversity and for their critical role in hydrological regulation. This opinion paper analyzes the main environmental, socio-economic, and regulatory aspects that currently hamper the sustainable use and conservation of SCFs in Mexico for the provision of timber and ecosystem services.
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Estrategia Nacional de Ordenamiento Territorial

Versión ejecutiva

Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2021
Latin America and the Caribbean, Mexico
Urban Tenure
urban planning
urbanization
México ha transitado por un proceso de cambios territoriales importantes en las últimas décadas; sin embargo, las políticas de vivienda de los últimos años, las modificaciones constitucionales sobre la propiedad agraria y la falta de una aplicación rigurosa de los instrumentos de planeación y de Ordenamiento Territorial (OT), entre otros factores, aceleraron la expansión urbana sobre áreas agrícolas y naturales. Si bien los procesos de urbanización y metropolización han favorecido el desarrollo económico del país, también han tenido efectos negativos, tales como un aumento de la desigualdad
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Mujeres Rurales: entre el despojo y la persistencia

Serie: Historias de Mujeres por el derecho a la Tierra en América Latina y el Caribe. Honduras, Colombia, Nicaragua,Bolivia, México, Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador y Guatemala

Reports & Research
December, 2021
Latin America and the Caribbean, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Argentina
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
equal rights
conflict of interest
land rights
women
La lucha de las mujeres por el acceso a la tierra es una cuestión de vieja data en la región. Factores históricos, políticos y socioculturales han sido parte de las barreras que han impedido a las mujeres, la tenencia y manejo de la tierra. Pero en las últimas décadas muchas de estas mujeres se han organizado para luchar con más fuerzas por este derecho.

Aunque la dinámica, los procesos y el contexto son diferentes, la lucha siempre es la misma: hacer realidad el derecho de las mujeres a tener su propia tierra.
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Land Governance and Gender

The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2021
Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Lesotho, Ghana, Mexico, China, Germany
Land & Gender
land administration
land policies
land management
This book delivers new conceptual and empirical studies surrounding the design and evaluation of land governance, focusing on land management approaches, land policy issues, advances in pro-poor land tenure and land-based gender concerns. It explores alternative approaches for land management and land tenure through international experiences. Part 1 covers Concepts, debates and perspectives on the governance and gender aspects of land. Part 2 focuses on Tenure-gender dimensions in land management, land administration and land policy.