RA/TREES-Mexico: Context,

ongoing activities and

perspectives
Francisco Chapela,
Regional Manager
TREES-México
December 2010.

©2009 Rainforest Alliance

Outline

• National context
• TREES strategy
• Main Allies
• Ongoing activities

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Outline

• National context
• TREES strategy
• Main Allies
• Ongoing activities

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Mexico forests

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Areas forestals totales como % del área

Souce: FAO, FRA 2010

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Mexico forests

Source: FAO, FRA, 2005

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Mexico forests: 1/3 of land area

Average national stock: 34.8 cu m/Ha.

Source: CONAFOR: National soils and forests inventory, 2010

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Timber trade – reactive policies

Million cubic meters

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Apparent demand

Legal production

year

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Wood stocks: poor management and depletion

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Forest cover trends

Thousands of hectares
Cover by forest type

Hectares

Conifers forests

Oaks forests

Evergreen rainforest

year
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Outline

• National context
• TREES strategy
• Main Allies
• Ongoing activities

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Principal Allies: CFEs and their organizations

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Principal Allies: Indigenous communities

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Principal Allies: Indigenous communities

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Tenencia de los bosques
Forests owned by ejidos and
agrarian communities, 2005

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 Strategy: (i) enhance sustainable forest management for local
Tenencia de los
communities bosques
development

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Strategies:

Strategy: (ii) promote market access through allies for certified

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products use

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Strategies:

Strategy: (ii) promote market access through allies for certified

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products use

Direct
supplier 1

Direct
supplier 2

Direct
supplier 3

Direct
supplier 4

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Strategies:

Strategy: (ii) promote market access through allies for certified

•

products use
Region N
consolidated
Direct supply
supplier 1

Direct Region C
consolidate
supplier 2 supply

Direct
supplier 3 Region S
consolidated
supply
Direct
supplier 4
Region SE
consolidated
supply
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Strategies:

Strategy: (ii) promote market access through allies for certified

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products use
CFE 1
Region N
consolidated
Direct supply CFE 2
supplier 1
CFE 3

Direct Region C
consolidated CFE 4
supplier 2 supply
CFE 5
Direct
supplier 3 Region S CFE 6
consolidated
supply CFE 7

Direct CFE 8
supplier 4
Region SE CFE 9
consolidated
supply
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Outline

• National context
• TREES strategy
• Main Allies
• Ongoing activities

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 Allied organizations

Reforestamos México:

Promote market demand

Through Supplier
Development

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Allies

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Allied organizations

IDB-MIF: Promote CFEs

competitiveness

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 Allied organizations

GEF-UNDP-CONAFOR:

Set up an enabling
institutional environment

Develop a national
certification system, including
a step-wise approach

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 Allies

Ministry of
environment:
lessen regulatory
burden

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 Funding

Projects
• Total Funds to Execution $ used % available
amount RA period: use
d
Reforestamos $989,957 $510,703 Jan 2009 – $308,249 60% $202,454
México (1) Jul 2011

GEF-PNUD- $6,900,000 $2,900,000 Nov 2010- $0 0% $2,900,000

CONAFOR Nov 2015
(2)

IDB-MIF (3) $9,000,000 $4,500,000 Jul 2010- $0 0% $4,500,000

Jun 2015

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Outline

• National context
• TREES strategy
• Main Allies
• Ongoing activities

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5-years target: Increase in participant communities

State Actual Expected Increase

Durango 17 20 18%
Oaxaca 5 8 60%
Chihuahua 2 9 350%
Guerrero 1 2 100%
Jalisco 1 4 300%
Michoacán 1 3 200%
Qunitana Roo 0 3 na
Estado de México 0 4 na
Total 27 53 96%

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 5-years target: Increase expected in certified area

Region (States) Estimated new certified or in

process areas to incorporate
Norte (Chihuahua, Durango) 200,000

Centro (Jalisco, Michoacan) 75,000

Sur (Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas) 125,000

Sureste (Campeche, Quintana Roo) 100,000

Actual certified area in Mexico: 852,371.32 hectares

Increase expected: 500,000 has, 58%

Expected certified area in Mexico in 5 years: 1,352,371

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5-years targets: Training and tools development

Target:
• 300 technicians and staff; a finished toolbox w/BD and
competitiveness items; an CFEs competitiveness strategy
2010/2011 targets:
• Clarify, design and formalize a Mexican stepwise system
• Train 40 technicians on FSC and stepwise certification
• Identify improvements for RA-TREES tools. Finish those tools.
• Identify 2-3 SFM best practices
• Develop a Biodiversity management training module
• Develop partnerships with research and education institutions for training modules

• Further develop/consolidate a CFE development toolbox

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5-years targets: Biodiversity-friendly policies.

Target: National strategy to expand SFM certification

into BD priority areas in place
2010/2011 targets:

• Set up a national strategy to expand certified SFM in biodiversity

priority areas
• Identify priority issues to be included as selection criteria in
ProArbol

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5-years targets: New demand for SFM certified
products
Target: Federal and some state procurement policies supporting SFM
certified
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products; include LKS and NTFP; 10 market contracts; USD 1.5
million sales.
2010/2011 targets:
• 3 new state-level CFEs SFM support policies
• Continue Oaxaca state CFEs SFM support policy
• 4 new government contracts under corresponding procurement policies
• 5 new CoC certificates
• 5 new trade alliances in Mexico; 1 new international trade alliance
• Market for 2 new species (a LKS and a NTFP)
• Identify technological alternatives for by-products in South region
• 5 new finished or semi-finished products
• 5 new national trade deals
• 2 million sales on certified or in process to be certified products

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5-years targets: Collaboration with CFEs for certified
SFM
Target: 50 CFEs
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2010/2011 targets:
State Actual new
Durango 17 3
Oaxaca 5 3
Chihuahua 2 7
Guerrero 1 1
Jalisco 1 3
Michoacán 1 2
Qunitana Roo 0 3
Estado de México 0 4
Total 27 26

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5-years targets: Certified/protected area

Target: >1,000,000 certified or in process to be certified

hectares
2010/2011 targets:

• 90,000 new hectares under FSC certification in 13 new CFEs (6

Chih/Dur; 3 Mich/Jal; 1 Gro; 1 Oax; 2 QR)
• 20,000 new hectares under community conservation
• 13 CFEs with HCVF identified

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5-years targets: CFEs competitiveness

Target:
• CFEs 10% cost decrease/income increase; 25% increase on
Biodiversity; >USD 15 million invested; toolbox being used in 7 CFEs
2010/2011 targets:
• Baselines under RA/TREES framework in 32 old and new CFEs
• 29 CFEs with cost control, production control and inventory control tools
• 20 CFEs with business plans and managerial systems
• 29 trained production managers
• US 2.5 million invested on CFEs
• 7 new CFEs with access to loans

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5-years targets: REDD

Target: 100,000 has w/REDD income; 1 PDD

2010/2011 targets:
• Identify RA role on the national REDD strategy
• Formalize REDD pilot sites
• 2 PDDs for 2 REDD projects (N & S)
• Collaboration institutional agreement with the CCMSS
for REDD

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5-years targets: Impact assessment.

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Target: at CFEs locations and forests: 0
deforestation; <10% degradation; 50%
increase in women participation; 30% income
increase
2010/2011 targets:
• Mexico forest SME situational diagnostic
• Clarify, identify pending issues for impact assessment

• collaboration agreements with partner agencies and

organizations

• Set up impact assessment places

• Baseline assessment

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5-years targets: Outreach.

Target: 14 general workshops; RA webpage;

40 local workshops
2010/2011 targets:

• Launching workshops (IDB and GEF)

• Communications plan

• Linkages for TREES projects in RA website

• Specialized technical services providers catalog

• >20 dissemination events

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