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• A Salvadoran people sell their guerrilla past as a tourist attraction

  Nearly 20 years after the end of civil war in El Salvador, the old battlegrounds are now struggling to become a card that combines ecotourism with the imprint of the war.

  

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/mundo/noticias/2011/01/110113_turismo_guerrillas_salvador_lf.shtml

  
  
   

   
  
  

• Central America’s first VPA? Perspectives on FLEGT in Honduras

  In early April 2011, and following some initial contacts between Honduras and the
  European Union (EU) in mid-2010, a series of meetings and workshops were held
  in Honduras with the objective to explore the potential negotiation of a Voluntary
  Partnership Agreement (VPA) between both parties. Further progress is expected
  in the coming months.
  This briefing provides information about progress achieved so far, and reflects on
  the opportunities for and challenges to successful negotiation – and implementation
  – of a VPA. It is aimed at stakeholders both in Honduras and the EU, as well as
  the international community working on VPAs in other countries around the world.

  In early April 2011, and following some initial contacts between Honduras and the European Union (EU) in mid-2010, a series of meetings and workshops were held in Honduras with the objective to explore the potential negotiation of a Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) between both parties. Further progress is expected in the coming months.

  This briefing provides information about progress achieved so far, and reflects on the opportunities for and challenges to successful negotiation – and implementation – of a VPA. It is aimed at stakeholders both in Honduras and the EU, as well as the international community working on VPAs in other countries around the world.

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• Conservation, Adaptation, Food Security and Green Markets

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  An alternative sociocultural approach to ensure the conservation, adaptation, Food Security and Green Markets in the indigenous and peasant communities in Mesoamérica.

  

  
  
   

   
  
  

• DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE OF PRACTICAL, APPLICABLE AND SUSTAINABLE FINANCIAL MECHANISMS ACICAFOC – FAO/NFP FACILITY (9-2010)

  The Practical, Applicable and Sustainable Financial Mechanisms (PASFM) regional initiative, implemented jointly by the La Asociación
  Coordinadora Indígena y Campesina de Agroforestería Comunitaria Centroamericana (ACICAFOC) and the FAO/National Forest Programme
  (NFP) Facility, has the objective of learning from successful forest financing arrangements with the aim of replicating, developing and
  implementing PASFM. The target group of the initiative are the indigenous groups and small farmers who are working to strengthen
  community forestry and agroforestry models.

  Mecanismos-financieros_English

  
  
   

   
  
  

• Ending of the beneficiaries vocational training, Pilot Project of Eco-systematics Services in Costa Rica (2009-11)

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• Independent Auditors Report 2008 (2009-11)

  Independent-Auditors-Report.pdf

  We have audited the accompanying combined financial statements of Indigenous and Peasant Coordination Association for Community Agro forestry (hereinafter “the Association”), which include the combined balance sheet as at 31 December 2008, and the combined statements of activities, changes in net assets and cash flows for the year then ended, and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory notes.

  
  
   

   
  
  

• Local Comunication Network

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• Pinapple farmers share expertise

  Video shown on CNN about the pineapple in Costa Rica and Benin

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• Strengthening the technical capacities of indigenous and peasant organizations near ACICAFOC through regional dialogues on REDD (12-2010)

  In the context of international discussions on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (known as REDD) Central American countries have shown their willingness to prepare structurally for an international regime on REDD in various regional strategies. The REDD issue requires a partnership between the countries of the region, both for the economy of scale that such collaboration could generate, as well as the opportunity to exchange positive experiences and reduce the risk of shifting deforestation from one country to another (leakage). It is for this reason that the program seeks to support Central American countries through a regional approach to improving the framework conditions and the capacities of key actors for REDD.

  Holding a workshop to systematize existing experience and potential REDD

  
  

  For the coordination and implementation of this workshop, had a specialist consultant systematisation of experiences, for it generated a methodological guide.

  The workshop was held in Guatemala, with the participation of community representatives and community leaders who participated in the first phase of El Salvador, Guatemala and Belize.

  For the event, distributed the handout to participants as inputs for the subsequent systematisation of experiences in their communities.

  Finally, as a product of this process was the systematization of experiences of the Marys 93 Cooperative located in El Salvador, the same as that collected information on adaptation and mitigation to climate change, the Cooperative has promoted among its members. Similarly, there have been the systematization of experiences with Tikonel (Guatemala), Rio Blanco Mayan Mayan Association Cultural Council and Toledo (Belize).

  Here are Systematized Regional experiences:

  • Belice:
  1. Río Blanco Mayan Association.pdf
  2. Toledo Maya Cultural Council.pdf
  • Guatemala: Tikonel(Spanish).pdf
  • El Salvador:
  1. Cooperativa Las Marías (Spanish).pdf
  2. Cooperativa Las Marías.pdf

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• UNAFOR Publication

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