RRI Work and Resources in Mexico

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Below you can find resources for Mexico listed by resource-type (i.e. News, Publications, Events).

Upcoming Events!

• Next Generation of Forest Agency Leaders: Global Issues in Governance
  May 27, 2013 - Oaxaca, Mexico

Recent News

• Earth First! Newswire: 2012: A Deadly Year for Environmentalists March 12, 2013
• YubaNet: Global Land Grab Brings Significant Risk to Investors As Communities Respond to Economic Harm, Human Rights Abuses February 05, 2013
• Indigenous Peoples Enhance Traditional, Earth-Friendly Livelihoods October 11, 2012
• El Universal: Representantes de Laos visitarán QRoo October 09, 2012
• Plaza Pública: El Mirador: el incierto futuro de unas ruinas September 17, 2012
• The New York Times: Reclaiming the Forests and the Right to Feel Safe August 03, 2012
• IPS: Economia verde: proteção das florestas por comunidades tradicionais (Portuguese) June 19, 2012
• Forest Tenure Reform- New Resource on Rights for Forest-based Communities June 18, 2012
• Red MOCAF: Mexican senate approves legal reforms, strengthening forest communities' rights to forest carbon May 08, 2012
• La Jornada: Organizing in indigenous communities under policy that favors security May 08, 2012

Publications relating to Mexico

• Experiencias Forestales de Communidades Mexicanas
• The Guardian: Green activists face grave threat as death toll doubles in a decade
• YubaNet: Global Land Grab Brings Significant Risk to Investors As Communities Respond to Economic Harm, Human Rights Abuses
• Migración, medios de vida rurales y manejo de recursos naturales
• Migration, Rural Livelihoods & Natural Resource Management
• Restoration & Poverty Alleviation Across Landscapes and Communities
• 2012 Lao workshop - Community forest rights in Mexico: implications for forest health, poverty and state revenue (Lao)
• 2012 Lao workshop - Community forest rights in Mexico: implications for forest health, poverty and state revenue
• 2012 Lao workshop - Community forest rights in Mexico: implications for forest health, poverty and state revenue (speech)
• Re-Framing REDD+
• Inter Press Service: Economia verde - proteção das florestas por comunidades tradicionais
  
• Rio+20 Evento Paralelo Pueblos indígenas y comunidades campesinas forestales de Mesoamérica aportan a la reflexión de Rio+20.
• Forest Tenure Reform- New Resource Rights for Forest based Communities
• Press Release: New Study Reports Rise in Community Land Rights in Tropical Forests; Yet Most Laws in Asia, Africa Remain either Meaningless or Unenforced
• Background: Mexico's Tenure Reform Experience, 1992-2012
• Cámara de Senadores Mexicanos: Dictamen de las comisiones unidas de medio ambiente, recursos naturales, y pesca
• Yale Environment 360 - Busting the Forest Myths: People as Part of the Solution
• MegaFlorestais 2011 - Summary
• Tenure Data - Mexico
• Press Release
• Mexican foresters invoke less destructive logging
• Report on Messaging, Training, and Media Efforts for RRI and Community Forest Management at COP16
• Press Coverage for the Tropical Forest Tenure Assessment
  
• Press Coverage for the Seeing People through the Trees Report Release
  
• Sustainable Forest Management as a Strategy to Combat Climate Change
• El Manejo forestal sostenible como estrategia de combate al cambio climático
• Mesoamerican Community Carbon Reservoir, MesoCarbon, launched at COP16
  
• Press Summary
• 2007 CFE Conference: Ixtepeji Forest Community, Oaxaca, Mexico
• 2007 CFE Conference: One Small Peasant Village's Grand Forest Industry: A Case Study of the El Balcon Ejido in Western Mexico
• 2007 CFE Conference: Community Forestry in Quintana Roo, Mexico
• Community-Based Forest Enterprises in Tropical Forest Countries - Full Report with Annexes

Past

• MegaFlorestais 2012: Forest Governance in the 21st Century: Resilient Forest Communities, Landscapes and Agencies
  October 22, 2012 - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
• Community Forest Management to Assure Sustainable Development
  June 18, 2012 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• MegaFlorestais 2011: Forest Governance in Times of Economic Turmoil
  October 17, 2011 - Oaxaca, Mexico