InstitutionClaim Cited
ACOFOP community forest concessions
Community organizations in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve formed ACOFOP because a concession contract alone could not defend territory, satisfy technical rules, reach markets, or survive political challenge. The federation helped turn temporary rights on state land into collective operating capacity, while failed concessions and renewal disputes exposed the limits of that achievement.
What had to be organized beyond each community so that a twenty-five-year forest right became a defensible future rather than a temporary harvest license?