Does community-based forest ownership favour conservation of tree species diversity? A comparison of forest ownership regimes in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico

An Analysis of Non-State and State Approaches for Forest Certification in Mexico

“…These findings are opposite to the situation in Mexico, where 70 percent of the forest area is owned by ejidos and comunidades, while 26 percent consists of private property, and 4 percent is national forests [17]. On the other hand the existence of a greater number of certifications in chain of custody in the private property is explained by the fact that a large number of ejidos and communities in Mexico do not have sawmills to process their timber.…”

“…The high plant species richness is complemented by a remarkable social and cultural diversity of the inhabitants living within the forest or in close vicinity. Nearly 70 percent of the forest land of the country is owned by Ejidos and Comunidades [17]. The collective land grants are known as "Ejidos", whereas the indigenous land ownerships are called "Comunidades" [18,19].…”

“…It should ensure that the costs generated by the better forest management operations are covered by a better price of certified products [34]. The case of Mexico is especially interesting since 70 percent of the forest area of the country is communal social property (owned by ejidos and comunidades) [17]. Global statistics on the type of ownership of land certified by FSC show that 50 percent is private, 47 percent public and only 3 percent is communal.…”

Techno-economic feasibility of trigeneration systems with Thermal storage: The impact of the load size and spark spread rates

“…the variance between the groups, making sure that the latter is larger [54]; other use the silhouette and the Calinski-Harabasz criteria [55]; others like Ramos [52]…”

Phenotypic variation among natural populations of pines: implications for the management and conservation of genetic resources

“…An ejido is a land owned and managed by a group (i.e. between 50 and 150 people or exceptionally more than 1000) (Silva- Flores et al 2016) whereas the comunidades agrarias are areas that were restituted to indigenous communities after that their historical rights were officially recognized (Merino-Perez 2013). It is considering that deforestation problem is due to collective property and use of natural resources by the rural poor, as the main drivers (Merino-Perez 2013); and it is showing that woody cover gains have occurred in regions where migration have been important (Rudel 2008).…”