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Review of Advances and Current Problems of Communities Comprising UZACHI Compiled by: Estudios Rurales y Asesoria/Francisco Chapela October 2008
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All Rights Reserved 2008 by the ZapotecChinantec Union of Forestry and Agricultural and Fishing Communities. All Rights Reserved 2008 by Estudios Rurales y Asesoría Campesina Under a license of NonCommercial Acknowledgement of Author under Licence 3.0 of Creative Commons. You are free to copy, distribute and publicly communicate the work or produce works derived from it, under the following conditions: Attribution. You must acknowledge the authorship of the work in the terms specified by the author or person awarding the license. Non commercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Reciprocal Licensing. If you alter, transform or create a work on the basis of this work, you may only distribute the resulting work under a license identical to this one. * If the work is reused or distributed, the terms of the license of this work must be quite clear. * Some of these conditions may not apply if permission is obtained from the owner of the copyright. * Nothing in this license damages or restricts the author's moral rights. The rights derived from the legitimate uses or other limitations recognized by law will not be affected by this. for nonprofit uses
Quote: Francisco Chapela (compiler): “Review of Advances and Current Problems of Communities Comprising UZACHI.” Oaxaca, Mexico, Estudios Rurales y Asesoría Campesina, A.C. and ZapotecChinanatec Union of Forestry adn Agricultural and Fishing Communities, 2008. 3rd_workshop_Oaxaca.odt Review of Advances and Current Problems of Communities Comprising UZACHI Pág. 2
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Review of Advances and Current Problems of Communities Comprising UZACHI Compiled by: Rural Studies and Advice/Francisco Chapela October 2008
Contents 1. Background.........................................................................................................................5 2. List of attendees..................................................................................................................7 3. Current Status of UZACHI Communities............................................................................8 La Trinidad..........................................................................................................................9 Capulalpam.......................................................................................................................12 Santiago Xiacuí.................................................................................................................13 Santiago Comaltepec........................................................................................................14 4. Abstract.............................................................................................................................15 Forestry Status..................................................................................................................15 Status of Communal Industries........................................................................................18 Status of Productive Diversification Projects....................................................................20 Status of Social Benefits Provided by UZACHI................................................................21
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1. Background Nineteen years after it was founded, the Union of ZapotecChinanatec Communities needs to be updated to enable it to cope better with the challenges of the new economic, social and environmental situation in which it operates. It must therefore conduct a retrospective review of the successes and problems it has experienced, analyze its perspectives using a strategic vision and use this to redesign its structure and modus operandi. This will enable it to be more effective in helping member communities to enter markets and make better use of their material resources without compromising their future productive possibilities.
Within this context, a review of the progress and current problems of the communities comprising UZACHI was carried out to strengthen UZACHI’s human capital through a self evaluation and strategic planning exercise, to increase its efficiency in terms of fulfilling the goals set when it was established as an organization. The review also determined whether the
organization's goals were the same as they had been at the outset. In particular, the review suggested that:
The Union’s delegates and technicians should be aware of the current social, economic and forestry situation.
2. List of attendees
3. Current Status of UZACHI Communities The community technicians provided the delegates with a review of the current status of their community, considering: achievements, problems and proposals:
La Trinidad Achievements:
The legislation and management system has been consolidated. Significant progress has been made in the regularization of the forest.
The concept of intensive forestry was successfully introduced. The organization has a certificate of good management. The sixth out of the 10 annual plans is nearing completion.
It has a complete network of roads.
It has enough vehicles for all the management and administration operations.
The sawmill has improved its saws. It began with a Wood Mizer It 30 in 1994, upgrading to a Wood Mizer It 40 in 2000 and a Wood Mizer It 70 in 2004.
In 2004, it installed a drying stove.
In 2005, it acquired a backdigger, which provides service in the sawmill, roads and woodland.
A union of carpenters from La Trinidad was set up, grouping together 8 to 10 carpentry workshops.
The organization continues to aspire to achieving a form of community development that is:
Socially acceptable
Economically viable
Ecologically sustainable
Charcoal production has continued.
There are trained carpenters in several family workshops
There are trained technical and operating personnel.
Problems:
Difficulties in enforcing clearings
Emergence of bark stripping pests and parasitic plants.
Scant presence of Technical Forestry Department in the woodland to support timber yielding and non timberyielding production.
There is a need to place a higher value on wood
Family workshop production is not conducted in an orderly fashion.
Proposals:
Improve follow up and control systems between the Technical Forestry Department and the community.
Increase presence of Technical Forestry Department in the woodland to support timberyielding and non timberyielding production.
Consolidate carpentries.
Consolidate community ecotourism, including tours, cabins, restaurants and Tyrolese bridges.
Greater support from UZACHI for orchid production
Set up an integrative company that will organize and support carpentries.
Capulalpam Achievements:
Reforestation using seeds from selected trees in the communal forest
Support education institutions
Regular application of treatments
Network of roads in exploitation zones
Problems:
Depressed market. Lack of resources and equipment to continue adding value to wood The bark stripping blight is advancing. There are not enough roads in the area affected. Lack of personnel for dealing with the blight. The area in conflict with Yotao is affected by the blight, but there is no way of going in to eliminate it. SEMARNAT took a long time to grant the permits for eliminating the blight. The zone adjoining Ixtlan is also affected by the blight but there has been no coordination with this community to deal with it.
Proposals:
Set up an integrative company to combine the communities’ resources, add value to the wood and achieve better commercialization.
UZACHi should help with the paperwork for obtaining the permits for eliminating blight.
Santiago Xiacuí Achievements:
Trained technical and operating personnel run the nursery gardens, open up and maintain the roads and apply forestry treatments.
Positive response from the forests and people to the application of micro tree felling.
Reforestation using seeds from selected trees in the communal forest
The bromeliad breeding area continues to operate
The orchid breeding area continues to operate
Areas with successful reforestation have already received pruning and preclearing treatments.
Consolidated communal sawmill, with its own blade sharpening workshop.
Consolidated communal carpentry
A backdigger was acquired, which provides service in the sawmill, roads and hills.
It has enough vehicles for all the management and administration operations.
Problems:
Difficulty in applying pruning and preclearing, since the benefits of these practices are not felt immediately. Communal carpentry has as yet to achieve its optimum production and sales level.
Proposals:
Reinforce the ecotourism area
Consolidate communal carpentry
Santiago Comaltepec Achievements:
Treatments to improve the forest have been applied.
The communal sawmill is operating
It has a molder
It has two cranes
Consolidated communal carpentry
It has a tractor which provides service for the sawmill, roads, woodland and farmland.
It has a communal passenger bus service.
Problems:
Difficulty completing the work scheduled for each yearly plan, due to the lack of people and difficulty of access, mainly in the waterfall area.
Trained personnel do not remain in their positions.
The carpentry was set up years ago but does not work.
Migration outside the community means that there are not enough people for forestry exploitation work.
Proposals:
Increase benefits in communal firm
Improve road infrastructure
Improve orchid farm
Make communal carpentry work, perhaps through an integrative firm
Develop alternative projects in the mesophyllic forest and lowlands.
4. Abstract On the basis of the presentations of the technicians in each community, the current situation can be said to be defined as follows:
Forestry Status The legislation and management system has been consolidated. Significant progress has been made in the regularization of the forest, which has only been achieved in very few places in the world. However, the deterioration of the organization means that it has had problems with forest management. This in turn means that trained personnel do not remain in their posts for long. In recent years the Technical Forestry Department's presence in the communities has declined. The organization's deterioration poses an environmental threat since the blights have advanced as a result of institutional and operating difficulties in preventing and combating them. In this context, the Union must deal with the challenge of making forestry attractive to women and young people, as a means of ensuring the viability of the forest cultivation system. One particular challenge involves reorganizing the Technical Forestry Department by increasing its presence in the woodland and ensuring that the Board of Directors provides followup and control. Restoring UZACHI’s social impetus would enable it to speed up the paperwork required for obtaining permits, through agreements with the authorities. This is crucial, since timberyielding production is being delayed by the delays in obtaining permits, even for eliminating blight, which poses a threat to the continuation of the forests.
Achievements
Problems
Proposals
The legislation and Trained personnel do not stay Forestry should be made management system has for long. attractive to young people been consolidated. Significant progress has been made in the regularization of the forest. Blight is advancing due to institutional and operating difficulties in preventing and combating it.
UZACHI should help obtain permits, through agreements with the authorities.
The Technical Forestry Reorganize the Technical Department has reduced its Forestry Department Increase presence in the communities. its presence in the woodland and let the Board of Directors ensure followup and control Treatments to improve the forest have been applied.
Difficulty in applying pruning Increase benefits in and preclearing, since the communal firm benefits of these practices are not felt immediately.
Reforestation using seeds from selected trees in the communal forest
Appearance of bark stripping UZACHi should help with the pests and parasitic plants. paperwork for obtaining the permits for eliminating the blight.
Trained technical and The bark stripping plague is operating personnel run the advancing. There are not nursery gardens, open up and enough roads in the area maintain the roads and apply affected. Lack of personnel forestry treatments. for dealing with blight. Postive response from the forests and people to the application of the micro tree felling.
The area in conflict with Yotao is affected by the blight, but there is no way of going in to eliminate it.
Cranes, tractors and backdiggers available
SEMARNAT took a long time to grant the permits for
Achievements
Problems
Proposals
eliminating the blight. The concept of intensive forestry was introduced.
The zone adjoining Ixtlan is also affected by blight but there has been no coordination with this community to deal with it.
The organization has a certificate of good management.
Migration outside the community means that there are not enough people for forestry exploitation work.
Improve follow up and control systems between the Technical Forestry Department and the community.
The sixth out of the 10 annual Scant presence of Technical plans is nearing completion. Forestry Department in the woodland to support timber yielding and non timber yielding production.
Increase presence of Technical Forestry Department in the woodland to support timberyielding and non timberyielding production.
It has a complete network of roads in Trinidad
Difficulty completing the work scheduled for each yearly plan, due to the lack of people and difficulty of access, mainly in the waterfall area.
There is a welldeveloped road network in Xiacuí and Capulalpam
Inaccessibility of protected areas
It has enough vehicles for all the management and administration operations. Sawmills have upgraded their equipment: Wood Mizer in La Trinidad y Comaltepec, tower saw in Xiacuí and Capulalpam.
Improve road infrastructure
Status of Communal Industries Twenty years since UZACHI was founded, the communal sawmill industry has been consolidated and work is underway to add greater value to production, with different organizational schemes in each of the four communities. However, communal carpentries have as yet to achieve their optimum production and sales levels. The number of family workshops has increased, but in a disorderly fashion, mainly in La Trinidad, although there has also been an increase in the number of workshops in the other UZACHI communities. The availability of good quality, sawn and often dried wood makes establishing carpentry workshops feasible. However, there is a lack of resources and equipment to continue adding value to wood and integrating processes such as finger joint assembly, molds and veneers. Several community technicians and delegates therefore think it would be useful to set up an integrating firm to organize and support carpentries and thereby increase the value of the raw materials obtained from the forest.
Achievements
Problems
Proposals
The communal sawmill industry has been consolidated and work is underway to increase production value.
Communal carpentries have Set up an integrative as yet to achieve their company that will organize optimum production and sales and support carpentries. levels. The number of family workshops has increased, but in a disorganized fashion Lack of resources and equipment to continue adding value to wood
The four communal sawmills Trained personnel do not are operating remain in their positions in Comaltepec. Comaltepec has a molder
Comaltepec’s carpentry was set up years ago, but does not work.
Make communal carpentry work, perhaps through an integrative firm
Communal carpentry
There is a need to place a
Consolidate carpentries.
Achievements
Problems
consolidated in Trinidad and Xiacuí
higher value on wood
Proposals
A union of carpenters from La Family workshop production Set up an integrative Trinidad was set up, grouping is not conducted in an orderly company that will organize together 8 to 10 carpentry fashion. and support carpentries. workshops. Drying stoves have been installed.
Depressed market.
There are trained carpenters, Lack of resources and mainly in La Trinidad and equipment to continue adding Capulapam. The number of value to wood family workshops has increased, particularly in La Trinidad. Communal carpentry has as yet to achieve its optimum production and sales level.
Set up an integrative company to combine the communities’ resources, add value to the wood and achieve better commercialization.
Status of Productive Diversification Projects New proposals have been put forward to exploit forestry resources in addition to work, which include non timberyielding forestry products and the provision of various services. This helps the regional economy not to depend on a single market and provides more opportunities for various sectors of the population. However, efforts to make mushroom, bromeliad and orchid production and ecotourism profitable have as yet to succeed, although there have been some promising results. It has therefore been thought necessary to boost mushroom, orchid and bromeliad production, perhaps thought an integrative company, with a similar organization to the timber products integrative firm but oriented towards this type of non timberyielding products. Promote ecological tourism services, through a third integrative company through the forest's timberyielding and nontimberyielding products. Devise a strategy for the sustainable use of lowland resources, through specific projects. Achievements
Problems
Proposals
New proposals are being Efforts to make mushroom, Boost production, through an put forward to exploit natural bromeliad and orchid integrative company resources in addition to production and tourism Promote ecological tourism timber profitable failed services, perhaps through an integrative company Devise a strategy for the sustainable use of lowland resources The bromeliad breeding area continues to operate
Efforts to make orchid and bromeliad production profitable failed
Improve orchid house. Greater support by UZACHI for orchid production
The orchid breeding area continues to operate
Efforts to make mushroom production profitable failed
Boost mushroom production
Charcoal production has continued in La Trinidad
Ecotourist facilities have not Consolidate community been sufficiently used ecotourism, including tours, cabins, restaurants and Tyrolese bridges.
Achievements
Problems
Proposals
There is no proper scheme Develop alternative projects in for exploiting lowland the mesophyllic forest and the resources lowlands.
Status of Social Benefits Provided by UZACHI In addition to cultivating the forest, maintaining ecosystemic services and creating jobs and direct income for those working in forestry in the UZACHI communities, UZACHI provides service of collective interest, such as support for education, social works and transport services among others. However, forestry profits are not enough to offer the majority of young people acceptable opportunities for development from their point of view. This implies not only having a job or income but also perspectives for improving their living conditions and the opportunity to engage in culturally interesting activities. In this context, UZACHI’s main challenge is to maintain its vision of achieving a form of community development that is both socially acceptable, economically viable and ecologically sustainable. Achievements
Problems
Services of collective interest Forestry profits are not are provided sufficient to offer most young people acceptable opportunities for development
Proposals Maintain its vision of achieving community development that is: Socially acceptable, economically viable and ecologically sustainable
Comaltepec has a communal passenger bus service. The organization continues to aspire to achieving a form of community development that is: Socially acceptable, economically viable and ecologically sustainable
Set up a system for monitoring community development
Support education institutions
Devise a strategy to promote communities’ social and
cultural development
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All Rights Reserved 2008 by the ZapotecChinantec Union of Forestry and Agricultural and Fishing Communities. All Rights Reserved 2008 by Estudios Rurales y Asesoría Campesina Under a license of NonCommercial Acknowledgement of Author under Licence 3.0 of Creative Commons. You are free to copy, distribute and publicly communicate the work or produce works derived from it, under the following conditions: Attribution. You must acknowledge the authorship of the work in the terms specified by the author or person awarding the license. Non commercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. Reciprocal Licensing. If you alter, transform or create a work on the basis of this work, you may only distribute the resulting work under a license identical to this one. * If the work is reused or distributed, the terms of the license of this work must be quite clear. * Some of these conditions may not apply if permission is obtained from the owner of the copyright. * Nothing in this license damages or restricts the author's moral rights. The rights derived from the legitimate uses or other limitations recognized by law will not be affected by this. for nonprofit uses
Quote: Francisco Chapela (compiler): “Review of Advances and Current Problems of Communities Comprising UZACHI.” Oaxaca, Mexico, Estudios Rurales y Asesoría Campesina, A.C. and ZapotecChinanatec Union of Forestry adn Agricultural and Fishing Communities, 2008. 3rd_workshop_Oaxaca.odt Review of Advances and Current Problems of Communities Comprising UZACHI Pág. 2
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Review of Advances and Current Problems of Communities Comprising UZACHI Compiled by: Rural Studies and Advice/Francisco Chapela October 2008
Contents 1. Background.........................................................................................................................5 2. List of attendees..................................................................................................................7 3. Current Status of UZACHI Communities............................................................................8 La Trinidad..........................................................................................................................9 Capulalpam.......................................................................................................................12 Santiago Xiacuí.................................................................................................................13 Santiago Comaltepec........................................................................................................14 4. Abstract.............................................................................................................................15 Forestry Status..................................................................................................................15 Status of Communal Industries........................................................................................18 Status of Productive Diversification Projects....................................................................20 Status of Social Benefits Provided by UZACHI................................................................21
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1. Background Nineteen years after it was founded, the Union of ZapotecChinanatec Communities needs to be updated to enable it to cope better with the challenges of the new economic, social and environmental situation in which it operates. It must therefore conduct a retrospective review of the successes and problems it has experienced, analyze its perspectives using a strategic vision and use this to redesign its structure and modus operandi. This will enable it to be more effective in helping member communities to enter markets and make better use of their material resources without compromising their future productive possibilities.
Within this context, a review of the progress and current problems of the communities comprising UZACHI was carried out to strengthen UZACHI’s human capital through a self evaluation and strategic planning exercise, to increase its efficiency in terms of fulfilling the goals set when it was established as an organization. The review also determined whether the
organization's goals were the same as they had been at the outset. In particular, the review suggested that:
The Union’s delegates and technicians should be aware of the current social, economic and forestry situation.
2. List of attendees
3. Current Status of UZACHI Communities The community technicians provided the delegates with a review of the current status of their community, considering: achievements, problems and proposals:
La Trinidad Achievements:
The legislation and management system has been consolidated. Significant progress has been made in the regularization of the forest.
The concept of intensive forestry was successfully introduced. The organization has a certificate of good management. The sixth out of the 10 annual plans is nearing completion.
It has a complete network of roads.
It has enough vehicles for all the management and administration operations.
The sawmill has improved its saws. It began with a Wood Mizer It 30 in 1994, upgrading to a Wood Mizer It 40 in 2000 and a Wood Mizer It 70 in 2004.
In 2004, it installed a drying stove.
In 2005, it acquired a backdigger, which provides service in the sawmill, roads and woodland.
A union of carpenters from La Trinidad was set up, grouping together 8 to 10 carpentry workshops.
The organization continues to aspire to achieving a form of community development that is:
Socially acceptable
Economically viable
Ecologically sustainable
Charcoal production has continued.
There are trained carpenters in several family workshops
There are trained technical and operating personnel.
Problems:
Difficulties in enforcing clearings
Emergence of bark stripping pests and parasitic plants.
Scant presence of Technical Forestry Department in the woodland to support timber yielding and non timberyielding production.
There is a need to place a higher value on wood
Family workshop production is not conducted in an orderly fashion.
Proposals:
Improve follow up and control systems between the Technical Forestry Department and the community.
Increase presence of Technical Forestry Department in the woodland to support timberyielding and non timberyielding production.
Consolidate carpentries.
Consolidate community ecotourism, including tours, cabins, restaurants and Tyrolese bridges.
Greater support from UZACHI for orchid production
Set up an integrative company that will organize and support carpentries.
Capulalpam Achievements:
Reforestation using seeds from selected trees in the communal forest
Support education institutions
Regular application of treatments
Network of roads in exploitation zones
Problems:
Depressed market. Lack of resources and equipment to continue adding value to wood The bark stripping blight is advancing. There are not enough roads in the area affected. Lack of personnel for dealing with the blight. The area in conflict with Yotao is affected by the blight, but there is no way of going in to eliminate it. SEMARNAT took a long time to grant the permits for eliminating the blight. The zone adjoining Ixtlan is also affected by the blight but there has been no coordination with this community to deal with it.
Proposals:
Set up an integrative company to combine the communities’ resources, add value to the wood and achieve better commercialization.
UZACHi should help with the paperwork for obtaining the permits for eliminating blight.
Santiago Xiacuí Achievements:
Trained technical and operating personnel run the nursery gardens, open up and maintain the roads and apply forestry treatments.
Positive response from the forests and people to the application of micro tree felling.
Reforestation using seeds from selected trees in the communal forest
The bromeliad breeding area continues to operate
The orchid breeding area continues to operate
Areas with successful reforestation have already received pruning and preclearing treatments.
Consolidated communal sawmill, with its own blade sharpening workshop.
Consolidated communal carpentry
A backdigger was acquired, which provides service in the sawmill, roads and hills.
It has enough vehicles for all the management and administration operations.
Problems:
Difficulty in applying pruning and preclearing, since the benefits of these practices are not felt immediately. Communal carpentry has as yet to achieve its optimum production and sales level.
Proposals:
Reinforce the ecotourism area
Consolidate communal carpentry
Santiago Comaltepec Achievements:
Treatments to improve the forest have been applied.
The communal sawmill is operating
It has a molder
It has two cranes
Consolidated communal carpentry
It has a tractor which provides service for the sawmill, roads, woodland and farmland.
It has a communal passenger bus service.
Problems:
Difficulty completing the work scheduled for each yearly plan, due to the lack of people and difficulty of access, mainly in the waterfall area.
Trained personnel do not remain in their positions.
The carpentry was set up years ago but does not work.
Migration outside the community means that there are not enough people for forestry exploitation work.
Proposals:
Increase benefits in communal firm
Improve road infrastructure
Improve orchid farm
Make communal carpentry work, perhaps through an integrative firm
Develop alternative projects in the mesophyllic forest and lowlands.
4. Abstract On the basis of the presentations of the technicians in each community, the current situation can be said to be defined as follows:
Forestry Status The legislation and management system has been consolidated. Significant progress has been made in the regularization of the forest, which has only been achieved in very few places in the world. However, the deterioration of the organization means that it has had problems with forest management. This in turn means that trained personnel do not remain in their posts for long. In recent years the Technical Forestry Department's presence in the communities has declined. The organization's deterioration poses an environmental threat since the blights have advanced as a result of institutional and operating difficulties in preventing and combating them. In this context, the Union must deal with the challenge of making forestry attractive to women and young people, as a means of ensuring the viability of the forest cultivation system. One particular challenge involves reorganizing the Technical Forestry Department by increasing its presence in the woodland and ensuring that the Board of Directors provides followup and control. Restoring UZACHI’s social impetus would enable it to speed up the paperwork required for obtaining permits, through agreements with the authorities. This is crucial, since timberyielding production is being delayed by the delays in obtaining permits, even for eliminating blight, which poses a threat to the continuation of the forests.
Achievements
Problems
Proposals
The legislation and Trained personnel do not stay Forestry should be made management system has for long. attractive to young people been consolidated. Significant progress has been made in the regularization of the forest. Blight is advancing due to institutional and operating difficulties in preventing and combating it.
UZACHI should help obtain permits, through agreements with the authorities.
The Technical Forestry Reorganize the Technical Department has reduced its Forestry Department Increase presence in the communities. its presence in the woodland and let the Board of Directors ensure followup and control Treatments to improve the forest have been applied.
Difficulty in applying pruning Increase benefits in and preclearing, since the communal firm benefits of these practices are not felt immediately.
Reforestation using seeds from selected trees in the communal forest
Appearance of bark stripping UZACHi should help with the pests and parasitic plants. paperwork for obtaining the permits for eliminating the blight.
Trained technical and The bark stripping plague is operating personnel run the advancing. There are not nursery gardens, open up and enough roads in the area maintain the roads and apply affected. Lack of personnel forestry treatments. for dealing with blight. Postive response from the forests and people to the application of the micro tree felling.
The area in conflict with Yotao is affected by the blight, but there is no way of going in to eliminate it.
Cranes, tractors and backdiggers available
SEMARNAT took a long time to grant the permits for
Achievements
Problems
Proposals
eliminating the blight. The concept of intensive forestry was introduced.
The zone adjoining Ixtlan is also affected by blight but there has been no coordination with this community to deal with it.
The organization has a certificate of good management.
Migration outside the community means that there are not enough people for forestry exploitation work.
Improve follow up and control systems between the Technical Forestry Department and the community.
The sixth out of the 10 annual Scant presence of Technical plans is nearing completion. Forestry Department in the woodland to support timber yielding and non timber yielding production.
Increase presence of Technical Forestry Department in the woodland to support timberyielding and non timberyielding production.
It has a complete network of roads in Trinidad
Difficulty completing the work scheduled for each yearly plan, due to the lack of people and difficulty of access, mainly in the waterfall area.
There is a welldeveloped road network in Xiacuí and Capulalpam
Inaccessibility of protected areas
It has enough vehicles for all the management and administration operations. Sawmills have upgraded their equipment: Wood Mizer in La Trinidad y Comaltepec, tower saw in Xiacuí and Capulalpam.
Improve road infrastructure
Status of Communal Industries Twenty years since UZACHI was founded, the communal sawmill industry has been consolidated and work is underway to add greater value to production, with different organizational schemes in each of the four communities. However, communal carpentries have as yet to achieve their optimum production and sales levels. The number of family workshops has increased, but in a disorderly fashion, mainly in La Trinidad, although there has also been an increase in the number of workshops in the other UZACHI communities. The availability of good quality, sawn and often dried wood makes establishing carpentry workshops feasible. However, there is a lack of resources and equipment to continue adding value to wood and integrating processes such as finger joint assembly, molds and veneers. Several community technicians and delegates therefore think it would be useful to set up an integrating firm to organize and support carpentries and thereby increase the value of the raw materials obtained from the forest.
Achievements
Problems
Proposals
The communal sawmill industry has been consolidated and work is underway to increase production value.
Communal carpentries have Set up an integrative as yet to achieve their company that will organize optimum production and sales and support carpentries. levels. The number of family workshops has increased, but in a disorganized fashion Lack of resources and equipment to continue adding value to wood
The four communal sawmills Trained personnel do not are operating remain in their positions in Comaltepec. Comaltepec has a molder
Comaltepec’s carpentry was set up years ago, but does not work.
Make communal carpentry work, perhaps through an integrative firm
Communal carpentry
There is a need to place a
Consolidate carpentries.
Achievements
Problems
consolidated in Trinidad and Xiacuí
higher value on wood
Proposals
A union of carpenters from La Family workshop production Set up an integrative Trinidad was set up, grouping is not conducted in an orderly company that will organize together 8 to 10 carpentry fashion. and support carpentries. workshops. Drying stoves have been installed.
Depressed market.
There are trained carpenters, Lack of resources and mainly in La Trinidad and equipment to continue adding Capulapam. The number of value to wood family workshops has increased, particularly in La Trinidad. Communal carpentry has as yet to achieve its optimum production and sales level.
Set up an integrative company to combine the communities’ resources, add value to the wood and achieve better commercialization.
Status of Productive Diversification Projects New proposals have been put forward to exploit forestry resources in addition to work, which include non timberyielding forestry products and the provision of various services. This helps the regional economy not to depend on a single market and provides more opportunities for various sectors of the population. However, efforts to make mushroom, bromeliad and orchid production and ecotourism profitable have as yet to succeed, although there have been some promising results. It has therefore been thought necessary to boost mushroom, orchid and bromeliad production, perhaps thought an integrative company, with a similar organization to the timber products integrative firm but oriented towards this type of non timberyielding products. Promote ecological tourism services, through a third integrative company through the forest's timberyielding and nontimberyielding products. Devise a strategy for the sustainable use of lowland resources, through specific projects. Achievements
Problems
Proposals
New proposals are being Efforts to make mushroom, Boost production, through an put forward to exploit natural bromeliad and orchid integrative company resources in addition to production and tourism Promote ecological tourism timber profitable failed services, perhaps through an integrative company Devise a strategy for the sustainable use of lowland resources The bromeliad breeding area continues to operate
Efforts to make orchid and bromeliad production profitable failed
Improve orchid house. Greater support by UZACHI for orchid production
The orchid breeding area continues to operate
Efforts to make mushroom production profitable failed
Boost mushroom production
Charcoal production has continued in La Trinidad
Ecotourist facilities have not Consolidate community been sufficiently used ecotourism, including tours, cabins, restaurants and Tyrolese bridges.
Achievements
Problems
Proposals
There is no proper scheme Develop alternative projects in for exploiting lowland the mesophyllic forest and the resources lowlands.
Status of Social Benefits Provided by UZACHI In addition to cultivating the forest, maintaining ecosystemic services and creating jobs and direct income for those working in forestry in the UZACHI communities, UZACHI provides service of collective interest, such as support for education, social works and transport services among others. However, forestry profits are not enough to offer the majority of young people acceptable opportunities for development from their point of view. This implies not only having a job or income but also perspectives for improving their living conditions and the opportunity to engage in culturally interesting activities. In this context, UZACHI’s main challenge is to maintain its vision of achieving a form of community development that is both socially acceptable, economically viable and ecologically sustainable. Achievements
Problems
Services of collective interest Forestry profits are not are provided sufficient to offer most young people acceptable opportunities for development
Proposals Maintain its vision of achieving community development that is: Socially acceptable, economically viable and ecologically sustainable
Comaltepec has a communal passenger bus service. The organization continues to aspire to achieving a form of community development that is: Socially acceptable, economically viable and ecologically sustainable
Set up a system for monitoring community development
Support education institutions
Devise a strategy to promote communities’ social and
cultural development
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