Browsing by Author "Merino, Leticia"

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  • Challenges to sustainable forest management and stewardship in Mexico
    Sarukhan, J.; Merino, Leticia (2007)
    This paper evaluates the history and outcomes of community forest management in Mexico. This paper is based on the keynote speech delivered by L. Merino in 2007 at the North American Workshop on Forest Ecology and has been submitted to the proceedings of that event.
  • Comunidades forestales en México: Resultados preliminares de nuestra encuesta nacional
    Merino, Leticia; Martinez, A. E.; Arias, A.; Garcia, A. (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2007)
    This presentation summarizes the results of SANREM's national survey of community forests in Mexico. In addition to the presentation listed below, this was also presented at the meeting of the Comisión Nacional Forestal (CONAFOR) Program of Community Forest Development and the World Bank Division of Environment and Development in May 2007, at the National Congress of Botany (September 2007), and at the Congress of the Mexican Association for Rural Studies (October 2007).
  • Condiciones de las comunidades forestales con bosques templados en cinco estados de Mexico
    Merino, Leticia (Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacioinal Auótnoma de México (UNAM), 2008)
    Preliminary report on the findings of Mexico's nationwide survey of community forests.
  • Does gender influence forest management?: Exploring cases from East Africa and Latin America
    Mwangi, Esther; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.; Sun, Yan (2008)
    The influence of gendered relationships on access to forests and on forest sustainability remains a concern for scholars and practitioners. This paper presents a comparative study of forest management across four countries in East Africa and Latin America: Kenya, Uganda, Bolivia and Mexico. It focuses on one question: Do varying proportions of women (low, mixed, high) in forest user groups influence their likelihood of adopting forest resource enhancing behavior? We found that higher proportions of females in user groups, and especially user groups dominated by females, perform less well than mixed groups or male dominated ones. We suggest that these differences may be related to three factors: gender biases in technology access and dissemination, a labor constraint faced by women and a possible limitation to women's sanctioning authority. Mixed female and male groups offer an avenue for exploiting the strengths of women and men, while tempering their individual shortcomings.
  • Encuesta nacional de comunidades forestales en México
    Merino, Leticia; Martinez, A. E.; Arias, A.; Garcia, A. (Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 2007)
    This survey form was developed by the SANREM-Mexico team to be used in a national survey of forest-dependent communities.
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    Estudio estrategico sobre el sector forestal Mexicano
    Merino, Leticia; Rodriguez, J.; Ortiz, G.; Garcia, A. (Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 2008)
    A report assessing the state of the Mexican forest sector, created by UNAM at the request of the World Bank, the Food & Agricultural Organization, and the National Forest Commission, drawing in part on the data collected for the SANREM nationwide survey.
  • Gender and forest conservation: Cases from East Africa and Latin America
    Mwangi, Esther; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S.; Sun, Y.; Banana, Abwoli Y.; Leon, R.; Merino, Leticia; Ongugo, Paul O. (2008)
    This presentation discusses a cross country study on gender in community forest management. Analyzing gender participation in Kenya, Uganda, Mexico and Bolivia, the research demonstrates that participation in community forestry user groups varies by geographic region. More specifically, the research shows how gender is related to access to forest resources and participation in forest governance.
  • Migration impacts on self governance, local institutions, and forest management in forest communities in Mexico
    Merino, Leticia; Martinez, A. (UNAM, 2008)
    The vast majority of Mexican forestland is under collective tenure (70%). This type of tenure has been the base for the development of commercial community forestry in different regions of the country. Community forest ownership, forest management and forest production have proven to be important bases of local conservation strategies. In recent years the social and environmental gains of community forestry experience are threaten by an increasing out-migration, that often undermines collective action and conservation of communal forests. Our of study explores some of out-migration impacts on local governance, social capital and forest management. We also consider the different relations, rights and duties that migrants maintain with their communities of origin.