Mexico is characterized by decentralized land governance. Most of the population lives in urban areas, although highly concentrated in a few cities, and about 21% live in rural areas. The ejidos and agrarian communities-both forms of communal land ownership-that emerged from the Mexican Revolution continue to significantly shape land governance in Mexico today.
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194,395,000 ha
GDP/Capita
19,086.1 USD
Total population
126,705,000
Urban population
80.2 %
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23 June 2022
Solo ramas y pedazos de troncos tirados en el suelo quedaron donde antes había bosque. Eso fue lo que dejaron los taladores ilegales que, entre 2008 y 2011, entraron a la zona forestal de la comunidad de Cherán, en la región purépecha de Michoacán. En tres años, la devastación alcanzó a cerca de …
10 May 2021
On April 26, 2021, the Decree amending several provisions of Mexico’s General Law of Sustainable Forestry Development was published in the Federal Official Gazette (DOF). The Decree is effective as of April 27.
In relevant part, the Decree’s amendments include the following:
Changes to land use of…
22 January 2020
More than 2,000 communal landholdings known as ejidos, and communities, have organized themselves to carry out sustainable management of forests in their territory.
In states such as Oaxaca, Michoacán, Durango, Chihuahua and Quintana Roo there are examples of communities that have managed to…
<em>Ejidos</em> are a very particular form of land ownership in Mexico, updated after the Mexican Revolution. The <em>ejido</em> is defined as a population nucleus made up of the set of lands, forests, and waters of an area, as well as the group of individuals holding agrarian rights.
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16 November 2022
When Fatima Zahrae Taribi, a 20-year-old Moroccan climate justice advocate, met Luz Edith Morales Jimenez, a young land defender from Michoacán, Mexico, she wondered how they could communicate. Zahrae speaks French, Arabic, and English, and Morales speaks Spanish and Purépecha, an Indigenous…
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Uma conversa para compartilhar estratégias e empoderar mulheres em terras coletivas.
*O painel será apresentado em inglês e haverá tradução simultânea em espanhol e português.
As mulheres em todo o mundo vivem e trabalham em terras que são de propriedade coletiva de suas comunidades. No entanto,…