Land Tenure and Tenure Regimes in Mexico: An Overview

By W. Assies. 2007

146 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Political Science and International Relations, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. E. Corbera
2. T. Mutersbaugh
3. Jennifer Alix-García
4. Elizabeth Shapiro‐Garza
5. P. Pacheco
6. A. Dunlap
7. Katharine R. E. Sims
8. O. Schutter

In Political Science and International Relations

1. T. Mutersbaugh
2. Elizabeth Shapiro‐Garza
3. A. Dunlap
4. E. Corbera
5. O. Schutter
6. Sarah Lyon

In Soil Science

1. E. Corbera
2. Jennifer Alix-García
3. Patricia Yañez-Pagans
4. Elizabeth Shapiro‐Garza
5. P. Pacheco
6. A. Dunlap
7. Katharine R. E. Sims
8. O. Schutter

Citations in the corpus

• How not to think of land-grabbing: three critiques of large-scale investments in farmland (2011, background): “In Mexico, elites and investors took advantage of smallholders’ precarious position to rent or purchase their land on unfavorable terms (Assies 2008, 55).”
• Gender equity in fairtrade-organic coffee producer organizations: cases from Mesoamerica. (2010, background): “In Mexico, and in Oaxaca in particular, land titling initiatives promoted by the Mexican government since the 1992 reform of the 1917 Constitution’s Article 27 – which would transfer collective property to individual owners – have not made much headway beyond areas of urban expansion (Assies, 2008; ”
• Counterinsurgency for wind energy: the Bíi Hioxo wind park in Juchitán, Mexico (2018, background): “Furthermore, it created the prospects to sell, rent and use the ejido as collateral to access farming credit, social welfare and development schemes such as Programa Nacional de Solidaridad, Programa de Educación, Salud y Alimentación (1994–2000) and Oportunidades (2000–2006) (Assies 2008).”
• Contesting the market-based nature of Mexico’s national payments for ecosystem services programs: Four sites of articulation and hybridization (2013, background): “Even in the estimated 1% of núcleos agrarios that have chosen to privatize since 1992 (Assies, 2008), the law requires that any forestland must remain undivided and as common property (Segura, 2000; Merino Pérez et al., 2004).”
• Rights to Land, Forests and Carbon in REDD+: Insights from Mexico, Brazil and Costa Rica (2011, background): “As shown elsewhere [44-46], the share of social property increased every year until 1982 but re-distribution was only pursued significantly during the second half of the 1930s, the mid 1960s and the early 1970s [44,45].”
• Only One Tree from Each Seed? Environmental Effectiveness and Poverty Alleviation in Mexico's Payments for Ecosystem Services Program (2015, background): “Panel data for program beneficiaries and rejected applicants allows us to control for fixed differences and time trends affecting both groups.”