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Government significantly reduces community’s agrarian debt in recognition of conservation efforts
Guatemalan government agency, FONTIERRA, reduced the agrarian debt of the 50 families of ECA la Bendición by 95 percent in recognition of their traditional practices…
Advancing advocacy for inclusion of communities in REDD+ projects
The Association of Forest Communities of Petén (ACOFOP) implemented a successful advocacy campaign influencing Guatemalan government to allow greater community participation in GuateCarbon negotiations. GuateCarbon…
Court victory secures collective tenure rights over 2,483 hectares
A recent court victory signals the Guatemalan government’s recognition of communities’ rights, thanks to legal and technical support for local communities in an ongoing campaign…
Guatemala’s local communities to now participate in decision-making regarding climate change policies
On September 5, the Guatemalan state passed the national ?Framework Law for Regulating the Reduction of Vulnerability, Obligatory Adaptation to the Effects of Climate Change…
Proposal to promote community forestey activities in legislation reforms introduced to Guatemalan Govt.
With the help of the government, RRI’s collaborators in Guatemala designed a proposal for creating better opportunities to ensure legal incentives for community forestry acrtivities…
New tool to monitor role of the cadaster process in respecting collective land tenure rights in Guatemala
In Guatemala on November 12, Centro de Investigaciones y Proyectos para el Desarrollo y la Paz (CEIDEPAZ) held a second meeting with representatives of public…
New case studies document experiences in collective lands management in Guatemala
In Guatemala, Ut?z Che? finished developing a methodology and preparing series of case studies to systematize experiences in collective lands management and recognition across the…
Cross-regional exchange shares strategies on community forest management
ACOFOP and Ut?zChe? organized an exchange between Guatemalan forest communities and community representatives from Peru and Colombia from May 21-25 in Guatemala. The groups visited…
Seminar analyzes contribution of communities in forest maintenance in Guatemala
Participants at the June 18 seminar on ?The Role of Communities in Forest Management in the Altiplano? [highland plateau] in Guatemala analyzed the way in…
Latin American community leaders share experiences with REDD and payment for environmental services
Organized by Forest Trends, 12 community leaders from M?xico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru met In Antigua, Guatemala shared experiences on community-based…
Dialogue analyzes strategies to combat pressures from extractive industries and tourism in Mesoamerica
Pressures from petroleum, oil palm expansion and tourism activities were discussed as challenges for community organizations at the regional dialogue coordinated by ACOFOP and PRISMA,…
Meeting identifies emerging issues in community forestry from global perspective
The Global Alliance of Community Forestry (GACF) annual meeting, “Strengthening community forestry networks and federation to secure tenure rights, strengthen community-based forest enterprise and enhance…
Guatemala’s civil society organizations receive training on the implementation of the Registry of Cadastre Information
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Communications campaigns educate Latin American youth on climate change and their rights
Intercooperation worked with ALER, AGRECOL-Andes, and SERVINDI on a variety of communications focused-projects related to climate change, forests and indigenous peoples. These projects include three…
Strengthening the knowledge base of indigenous and community leaders
Forest Trends sponsored a regional workshop on ?Compensation and Payments for Ecosystem Services? in La Ceiba, Honduras in early fall in which ten different countries…
Community leaders share experiences on enhancing community participation in REDD+
Intercooperation, with support from La Asociaci?n Coordinadora Ind?gena y Campesina de Agroforester?a Comunitaria de Centroam?rica (ACICAFOC), Forest Trends, and the International Union for Conservation of…
A new report highlights the issues and relationship between tenure, forests, and livelihoods in Guatemal
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences ( FLACSO-Guatemala) produced two new reports highlighting the issues and relationship…
Local communities and NGOs assess new registry and cadastre regulations Guatemala
PERT, the Association of Forest Communities (ACOFOP), and Utz’ Che, with the participation of several peasant and indigenous organizations, coalitions and other NGOs assessed Guatemala’s…
RRI produces several new briefts on Alternative Tenure Enterprise Models in Ghana, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Guatemala, British Columbia, the Gambia, and Liberia
In preparation for the Yaound? tenure conference, RRI partners and collaborators prepared several briefs on Alternative Tenure Enterprise Models (ATEMs) in Ghana, Cameroon, Burkina Faso,…
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