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...

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...