Community forest enterprises as entrepreneurial Firms: Economic and institutional perspectives from Mexico

Antinori, Camille; Bray, David Barton

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.10.011

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“…Other households may pool their resources, allowing greater flexibility in how income is earned and spent. Antinori and Bray (2005) identify four benefit streams from community forest enterprises: profit sharing, investment in community infrastructure and welfare projects, investment in community forest enterprises and employment (wages and associated benefits). In community forest projects, Agarwal (2009) identifies benefits that can come as cash transfers, payments in kind (e.g., fodder or fuel) or through community funded projects.…”

Section: Gendered Patterns Of Benefit Sharingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating gender into forestry research: A guide for CIFOR scientists and programme administrators

Manfre¹,

Rubin²

2012

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Section: Gendered Patterns Of Benefit Sharingmentioning

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Integrating gender into forestry research: A guide for CIFOR scientists and programme administrators

Manfre¹,

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2012

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“…Similar to other social enterprises, they utilize market and non-market strategies to improve socio-economic conditions and generate social value for their members (Antinori and Bray 2005;Peredo and Chrisman 2006). Membership of such enterprises is based upon mechanisms by which an individual is recognized as a member of a collective.…”

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“…In this case the commons is both the land and the enterprise, and thus our interest in the case. This is a set of circumstances not uncommon in Mexico where there are numerous resource-based enterprises whose natural assets are communally held (Antinori and Bray 2005;Bray et al 2005). In numerous Mexican communities, local governance regimes, land tenure systems, and natural wealth have allowed the creation of profitable market-based enterprises as part of a commons.…”

Section: Community-based and Indigenous Enterprisesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Recent work on community forestry in Mexico has begun to consider this question and has recognized the need to include community-based enterprises and their relationship with global markets as part of commons scholarship (Antinori 2005;Bray 2005;Bray et al 2005). Specifically, this work has focused on the linkages between common property regimes and the institutional capital, policy trends and markets opportunities that can support socio-economic development (Antinori and Bray 2005;Chapela 2005;Duran et al 2005;Lopez-Arzola 2005;Torres-Rojo et al 2005;Bray et al 2006). Much of this work emerges out of the Mexican context in which community-based management of forests accounted for 40% of the national forest production by 1992 (Merino 2004) and has made it the leading country on the establishment of "community enterprises on a common property base" (Bray et al 2005, 15).…”

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Community-based enterprises and the commons: The case of San Juan Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Mexico

Orozco-Quintero

Davidson‐Hunt

2009

Int J Commons

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What can we learn from an engagement between communitybased and indigenous enterprise, and commons literatures? That is what we set out to consider in this paper. Commons literature has tended to focus on the administration and use of the commons by individuals and households and less so on collective enterprises that extract, transform and market what they harvest from the commons. In the commons literature it has been cases of community forestry from Mexico which initiated an interest in understanding the linkages between commons and enterprises.In this paper, we consider a well known case in the community forestry and commons literature from Mexico. It provides an interesting case as the indigenous members that hold the rights for the commons are also the members of the enterprise that transforms and markets goods from the commons. We argue that the impetus for such a strategy is one way to confront internal and external pressures on a commons.We draw upon the transcripts of 40 interviews undertaken during 2006 which are analyzed using a framework developed from the social, community-based and indigenous enterprise literature. The framework we developed by reviewing this literature was used to understand what was known regarding the factors that increased chances of success for community enterprises. Our goal was to utilize this framework to analyze the San Juan Forest Enterprise and understand its emergence and formation as a long-standing community-based enterprise that intersects with a commons. In analyzing interview transcripts would we find that people involved in the enterprise reflected what enterprise scholars had found Community-based enterprises and the commons to be conditions that increased the chances of success of community-based enterprises?We found that by starting from the enterprise literature it was possible to consider the enterprise from the perspective of a regulatory framework rather than the poles of dependency and modernization theories in which much commons work has been based. Enterprise and commons intersect when both are guided by core cultural values and the enterprise can become a new site for the creation of social and cultural cohesion. We also found that there were a number of necessary conditions for commons-based community-enterprises to retain internal and external legitimacy, namely: (1) leadership representative of the broad social mission rooted in the customary institutions, values and norms of the community; (2) accountability of enterprise leaders to the memberships they represent; and (3) a close adherence to the political goals of the community as a whole.We conclude by noting that in the Americas there is a steady increase in the lands and waters being managed by Indigenous Peoples. An engagement between commons and community-based enterprise scholars could provide needed support for the emergence of community-based enterprises that sustainably manage commons and provide the means to relieve systemic poverty of indigenous communities.

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“…Founded upon decades of agrarian reform that institutionalized common-property rights and local governance structures, community managed forest landscapes in Mexico tend to show reduced or minimal deforestation compared to forest landscapes under other land uses [14], including conservation [15]. In the state of Quintana Roo, notable improvements in forest community livelihoods [11,16,17] and maintenance of forest cover [18][19][20][21][22] have been documented and attributed to successful management of forests by communities [23]. These "successes", however, have been based on a few selected cases, with limited state-wide analysis.…”

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Endurance and Adaptation of Community Forest Management in Quintana Roo, Mexico

Ellis

Kainer

Sierra-Huelsz

et al. 2015

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Despite regional deforestation threats, the state of Quintana Roo has maintained over 80% of its territory in forests. Community forest management (CFM) has played a pivotal role in forest cover and biodiversity conservation in the region. In this article, we present the institutional, socioeconomic and environmental conditions under which community-based forest management has been consolidated in the tropical state of Quintana Roo, which occupies the eastern half of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. With a focus on management for timber and other market-based development strategies, we then examine the institutional and socioeconomic factors, as well as biophysical shocks, that have constrained community forestry development in the past 25 years, challenging its persistence. Following, we discuss how forest communities and institutions have responded and adapted to changing forest policies and markets as well as major environmental shocks from hurricanes and fires. CFM in Quintana Roo has shown resiliency since its institutionalization 30 years ago. Future challenges and opportunities include biodiversity conservation, carbon management through Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation 4296(REDD+) initiatives, market strengthening, business management training as well as the implementation of alternative silvicultural systems, particularly to manage sustainable populations of commercial timber species.

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Community forest enterprises as entrepreneurial Firms: Economic and institutional perspectives from Mexico

Cited by 181 publications

References 12 publications

Integrating gender into forestry research: A guide for CIFOR scientists and programme administrators

Integrating gender into forestry research: A guide for CIFOR scientists and programme administrators

Community-based enterprises and the commons: The case of San Juan Nuevo Parangaricutiro, Mexico

Endurance and Adaptation of Community Forest Management in Quintana Roo, Mexico

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