概要

This case study is one of 10 produced under “Forest Conservation through Certification, Markets and Strengthening of Small and Medium-sized Forest Enterprise,” a five-year project supported by the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF), a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group. Led by the Rainforest Alliance, the project involves approximately 100 community operations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru. This case study profiles Mexico’s largest community forestry operation, the Ejido El Largo y Anexos. Located in the northwestern part of the state of Chihuahua, the ejido covers 261,460 hectares, more than 250,000 ha of which is forested. Yet El Largo faces challenges that would be familiar to any small community-run forestry operation.