Search Results - "México"

  1. Sustainable forest management and stewardship in Mexico: Gains, challenges and lessons by CGIAR Program on Collective Action and Property Rights

    Published 2010
    “…Mexico, one of the world's 10 mega-diverse countries, has 56.5 million hectares of forest of high global value. …”
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  2. The impact of oportunidades in Mexico: An integrated CGE-microsimulations modeling approach by Dorosh, Paul A., Debowicz, Dario, Golan, Jennifer

    Published 2011
    “…According to Levy (2006), Oportunidades transfers represent, on average, 25 percent of household income for Mexico's rural poor and between 15 and 20 percent for the urban poor1. …”
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  3. México - PROGRESA: rompiendo el ciclo de la pobreza by International Food Policy Research Institute

    Published 2002
    “…The International Food Policy Research Institute’s in-depth evaluation of Mexico’s PROGRESA (Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación) indicates that antipoverty programs that combine education, health, and nutrition interventions in one package can be quite successful in improving the capacity of families to pull themselves out of the poverty that often ensnares generations. …”
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  4. Las plantas exogenas en la taxonomia mixteca (Mexico) by Katz, E.

    Published 1998
    “…After the Spanish conquest of Mexico, many plants were introduced in the Mixtec Highlands as in the whole country. …”
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    Journal Article
  5. Back to the forest: Exploring forest transitions in Candelaria Loxicha, Mexico by Aguilar-Støen, M., Angelsen, A., Moe, S.R.

    Published 2011
    “…This article examines changes in forest cover in Candelaria Loxicha, Mexico. Forest cover increased in the area as a result of coffee cultivation in coffee forest-garden systems. …”
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  6. The practices and politics of making policy: irrigation management transfer in Mexico by Rap, Edwin, Wester, P.

    Published 2013
    “…We construct this argument by analysing the making of the Irrigation Management Transfer (IMT) policy in Mexico in the early 1990s, focusing on different episodes of its re-emergence, standardisation, and acceleration. …”
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  7. Endurance and Adaptation of Community Forest Management in Quintana Roo, Mexico by Ellis, E.A., Kainer, K.A., Sierra-Huelsz, J.A., Negreros-Castillo, P., Rodríguez Ward, D., DiGiano, M.

    Published 2015
    “…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. …”
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