En América Latina se registran actualmente 826 pueblos indígenas que, para el año 2010, agrupaban a cerca de 45 millones de personas.
La ONU ha sido pionera en la defensa de sus derechos. En este video, la CEPAL convoca a los países de la región a poner en práctica políticas que pongan fin…

Geographic targeting is perhaps the most
popular mechanism used to direct social programs to the poor
in Latin America. The author empirically compares geographic
targeting indicators available in Peru. He combines
household…

Meeting Name: Committee on Forestry
Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2014/REP

BENEFIT-SHARING MECHANISMS
Water is essential for all human life and the ecosystems that support us. Water is a fundamental human right - socially, economically and culturally important.
For communities living in the Andean and Amazonian regions, this is especially true. Today these…

Durante los últimos seis meses, las zonas amazónicas de Bolivia, Brasil y Perú han compartido los impactos de inundaciones como un fenómeno de fuerza inusitada en comparación con las últimas décadas. En esta nueva entrega de la serie Diálogos, el autor proporciona información del impacto de las…

Policy makers concerned with the peri-urban interface find their greatest challenges in the rapid urban growth of developing mountain regions, since limitations caused by relief and altitude often lead to an increased competition between rural and urban land use at the valley floors. In this…

 
A partir de la experiencia de un proyecto especializado en los denominados “circuitos cortos de mercado”, el autor de este artículo presenta y desglosa las conflictivas relaciones entre la producción de la agricultura campesina  y los mercados urbanos. Es indudable, nos dice el autor,…

Water Use in the Can?ete River Basin
People who live in a healthy watershed benefit from its steady supply of water in many different ways, using it for households, agriculture, and industry. In many cases, however, the benefits derived from water are inequitably distributed among water…

An introductory video to Benefit-Sharing Machanisms. Discover how Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms (BSMs) work to redistribute the costs and benefits of a healthy watershed equitably amongst everyone.

Property rights represent the maximum power over a good. This is the essence of that right. However, beyond that base is possible a greater or smaller degree of limitation, according to the legal system and the prevailing ideology in the Constitution. the author argues that it is essential to…

This working paper, published by the World Resources Institute, looks at efforts in Cameroon, Indonesia, and Peru to invest in the infrastructure and capacity to track the impacts of changes from from forest and land-use-based climate change mitigation actions. The paper focuses on the…