"One of the missing links in common property research has been the interaction between common property resource users and the market. The present research fills that gap with a study of Mexico's agrarian communities which coordinate timber production within their commonly-owned forest land. The...

Ownership and control are rarely synonymous. This paper examines the factors motivating Mexican agrarian communities with forests to participate and invest in timber production activities, an opportunity which has opened in the last twenty years due to changes in Mexican forestry policy. We...

Few examples exist in the common property literature of community-managed forestry enterprises (CFEs) operating in competitive markets. Yet, in Mexico, there are hundreds of such examples at varying levels of vertical integration. At a time when devolution of rights to forests is expanding...