una oportunidad para conservar y restaurar recursos vitales para el Buen Vivir de las sociedades humanas. El Manejo Comunitario de Bosques (MCB)

The report advocates for Community Forest Management (MCB) as a sustainable alternative to industrial logging and top-down conservation. It links MCB to the 'Buen Vivir' philosophy, emphasizing the need for secure land tenure, social capital, and gender equity. The text critiques market-based mechanisms like REDD+ and the Payment for Environmental Services (PSA) for promoting privatization and centralizing control. It concludes with recommendations to shift funding from fossil fuel subsidies toward community-led conservation and the restoration of ancestral rights.

• Community Forest Management (MCB) is more effective at reducing deforestation than absolute protection regimes. A comparative study of 40 protected areas and 33 MCB experiences across Mexico, South America, Africa, and Asia found that MCB areas had an annual deforestation rate of 0.24%, compared to 1.47% in areas under absolute protection.
• Secure land tenure and clarity regarding possession rights are the most critical factors for the success of MCB initiatives, as evidenced by a study of 69 cases across three continents.
• Industrial 'selective logging' is criticized as destructive, often camouflaged as 'sustainable management.' In Costa Rica, such practices can legally result in the complete deforestation of up to 29% of the forest area due to logging roads and debris.
• The REDD+ mechanism is viewed as a threat to MCB because it tends to centralize forest governance, exclude indigenous populations, and incentivize industrial logging by treating it as a recognized management activity.
• Market-based conservation tools like the Payment for Environmental Services (PSA) in Costa Rica can undermine community cohesion by favoring individual payments over collective management, leading to social division within indigenous territories.
• Gender equity is essential for MCB success, as women are often the primary holders of ancestral knowledge regarding the medicinal and nutritional use of forest resources, such as the Moabi tree in the Congo Basin.
• Global energy investment is heavily skewed toward fossil fuels; in 2013, $1.1 trillion was invested in oil extraction, transport, and fossil fuel power plants, while renewable energy investments reached $250 billion.

APA

Baltodano, J. (2018). una oportunidad para conservar y restaurar recursos vitales para el Buen Vivir de las sociedades humanas. El Manejo Comunitario de Bosques (MCB). Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/El-Manejo-Comunitario-de-Bosques_SP-1.pdf

Chicago

Baltodano, Javier. una oportunidad para conservar y restaurar recursos vitales para el Buen Vivir de las sociedades humanas. El Manejo Comunitario de Bosques (MCB). Friends of the Earth International, 2018. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/El-Manejo-Comunitario-de-Bosques_SP-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{baltodano2018una, author = {Baltodano, Javier}, title = {{una oportunidad para conservar y restaurar recursos vitales para el Buen Vivir de las sociedades humanas. El Manejo Comunitario de Bosques (MCB)}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2018}, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/El-Manejo-Comunitario-de-Bosques_SP-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }