Mexico
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Knowledge | South-South Learning: From Payments for Environmental Services to REDD+ in Latin America
12.19.11The experience of payments for environmental services (PES) systems set up in Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ecuador in the last decade provides valuable insights for shaping REDD+ strategies in participating countries in the Latin America and Caribbean region. Between them, these programs are currently helping to conserve over 3 million hectares of forests. Their experience shows how to make PES work, but also -- problems to avoid.
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Knowledge | Community Forestry Enterprise Competitiveness and Access to Markets in Mexico
06.27.11This activity aims to develop consensus, through a stakeholder-driven process, on a course of action required to position Mexico’s community forestry sector as a high-value provider to niche markets from sustainably managed community forests, delivering both income and biodiversity protection. It has produced a guide in Spanish top evaluating economic and financial returns in community forest projects.
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Knowledge | Redesigning the Mexican Forest Fund to support sustainable forest management
06.23.11In light of Mexico’s changing circumstances and needs, CONAFOR and the World Bank propose to collaborate to redesign the Forest Fund so that it becomes a state-of-the art, best-practice financial mechanism.
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Knowledge | The Role of Forestry in Low-carbon Growth Strategies
03.08.11Experience from 3 case studies (Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia).
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News & Events | Forest Day 4 - Cancun, Mexico
08.23.10PROFOR co-hosted two well-attended sessions at Forest Day 4 in Cancun. One brought to the fore previous analysis on the potential for forest landscape restoration to help countries adapt to climate change and curb greenhouse gas emissions. The second focused on governance and illegal logging.
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Knowledge | Strengthening the Value Chain for Indigenous and Community Forestry Operations
08.03.10Building on the successful work of the Rainforest Alliance's Sustainable Forestry Division in Mexico and Central America, PROFOR co-financed three case studies documenting changes in income, return on investment and the role of technical assistance in bringing investments to their full potential in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.
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Knowledge | Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit
08.01.10An estimated 1.2 billion people rely on forests for some part of their livelihoods. However, the importance of forests is often overlooked in national development processes such as poverty reduction strategies due to inadequate evidence documenting how forests sustain the poor. To build better knowledge on this critical relationship, PROFOR developed a “Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit” to facilitate relevant data collection and analysis.
