Mexico - Community-based Forestry Development Project in Southern States, IFAD Impact Assessment Surveys 2017

The Community-based Forestry Development Project in Southern States (DECOFOS) was designed to address and overcome problems linked to deforestation and forest degradation in rural communities of marginalized forest areas in Campeche, Chiapas and Oaxaca. The project was carried out through the restoration and reforestation of degraded areas together with the provision of technical and financial support for the development of microenterprises and sustainable production initiatives. The project had the dual goal of improving the livelihood of people living in poverty and extreme poverty in degraded or marginalized areas and of contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation through the restoration and revitalization of degraded lands and deforested areas as well as by supporting, both technically and financially, the implementation of sustainable productive activities. For more information, please click on the following link .