Community-based Forestry Development Project in Southern States, IFAD Impact Assessment Surveys 2017

Mexico, 2017 - 2018

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Reference ID

MEX_2017_DECOFOS-IIAS_v01_M_v01_A_OCS

Producer(s)

International Fund for Agricultural Development, National Forestry Commission

Collection(s)

FAO - Food and Agriculture Microdata Catalog

Metadata

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Identification

Survey ID number

MEX_2017_DECOFOS-IIAS_v01_M_v01_A_OCS

Title

Community-based Forestry Development Project in Southern States, IFAD Impact Assessment Surveys 2017

Country/Economy

Name	Country code
Mexico	MEX

Study type

Agricultural Survey [ag/oth]

Abstract

The Community-based Forestry Development Project in Southern States (DECOFOS) was designed to address and overcome problems linked to deforestation and forest degradation in rural communities of marginalized forest areas in Campeche, Chiapas and Oaxaca. The project was carried out through the restoration and reforestation of degraded areas together with the provision of technical and financial support for the development of microenterprises and sustainable production initiatives. The project had the dual goal of improving the livelihood of people living in poverty and extreme poverty in degraded or marginalized areas and of contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation through the restoration and revitalization of degraded lands and deforested areas as well as by supporting, both technically and financially, the implementation of sustainable productive activities.

For more information, please click on the following link <https://www.ifad.org/en/web/knowledge/-/publication/impact-assessment-community-based-forestry-development-project-in-southern-states-decofos-> .

Kind of Data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Unit of Analysis

Households

Scope

Notes

The subjects covered by the survey are the following:

socio-demographic characteristics
Land and asset ownership
Agricultural, agroforestry, and livestock production
Shocks and risk management strategies
Dietary diversity and food security
Access to financial services
Social capital
Participations to organizations and networks.

Coverage

Geographic Coverage

Marginalized forest areas in Oaxaca, Chiapas and Campeche.

Universe

Poor rural households

Producers and sponsors

Primary investigators

Name	Affiliation
International Fund for Agricultural Development	United Nations
National Forestry Commission	CONAFOR

Funding Agency/Sponsor

Name	Role
International Fund for Agricultural Development	Funding
Governement of Mexico	Funding
Global Environment Facility	Funding

Sampling

Sampling Procedure

TDECOFOS target population reside in marginalized forest areas in Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Campeche. It is represented by ejidatarios, who are members of rural communities, ejidos, with land rights and involved in collective decisions about land administration and use, the group of posesionarios, who do not have any rights on the land they use and collectively administer, as well as the avecindados, individuals residing on common land without any land rights. The project covered a total of 79 municipalities: 47 (out of a total of 570) in Oaxaca, 21 (out of a total of 118) in Chiapas, and 11 (all) in Campeche. The initial sample comprised of a total of 110 communities/ejidos (half treatment and half control) while the total estimated sample comprises of 2,200 households. Ultimately, 108 ejidos were visited and a total sample of 2,230 households were interviewed (1,128 in treatment group and 1,102 in the control group).

Weighting

No weighting.

Survey instrument

Questionnaires

The main data collection instruments for this impact assessment are household and community questionnaires. The household questionnaire collected information at household level on a number of socio-economic characteristics, land and asset ownership, agricultural, agroforestry and livestock production and marketing, shocks and risk management strategies, dietary diversity and food security, access to financial services, social capital, participations to organizations and networks. The type of data collected through the community questionnaire included access to infrastructure and basic services, main economic activities, social capital and collective action, organizations and networks.

Note: some variables may have missing labels. Please, refer to the questionnaire for more details.

Data collection

Dates of Data Collection

Start	End
2017-12	2018-01

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Data Collection Notes

The data collection has been completed between December 2017 and January 2018. The information collected refers to the twelve months preceding the survey implementation. In particular, data on crop production take as reference period the last completed agricultural cycle, starting from June 2016 to July 2017.

Data Access

Confidentiality

Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required?	Confidentiality declaration text
yes	The users shall not take any action with the purpose of identifying any individual entity (i.e. person, household, enterprise, etc.) in the micro dataset(s). If such a disclosure is made inadvertently, no use will be made of the information, and it will be reported immediately to FAO.

Access conditions

Micro datasets disseminated by FAO shall only be allowed for research and statistical purposes. Any user which requests access working for a commercial company will not be granted access to any micro dataset regardless of their specified purpose. Users requesting access to any datasets must agree to the following minimal conditions:

The micro dataset will only be used for statistical and/or research purposes;
Any results derived from the micro dataset will be used solely for reporting aggregated information, and not for any specific individual entities or data subjects;
The users shall not take any action with the purpose of identifying any individual entity (i.e. person, household, enterprise, etc.) in the micro dataset(s). If such a disclosure is made inadvertently, no use will be made of the information, and it will be reported immediately to FAO;
The micro dataset cannot be re-disseminated by users or shared with anyone other than the individuals that are granted access to the micro dataset by FAO.

Citation requirements

The use of the dataset should be referenced in any publication, using the following citation:

International Fund for Agricultural Development. Community-based Forestry Development Project in Southern States, IFAD Impact Assessment Surveys, Mexico, 2018. Dataset downloaded from https://microdata.fao.org.

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

Metadata production

DDI Document ID

DDI_MEX_2017_DECOFOS-IIAS_v01_M_v01_A_OCS

Producers

Name	Affiliation	Role
Office of Chief Statistician	Food and Agriculture Organization	Metadata producer
Development Economics Data Group	The World Bank	Metadata adapted for World Bank Microdata Library

Date of Metadata Production

2023-02-17

Metadata version

DDI Document version

Version 01 (February 2023): This metadata was downloaded from the FAO website (https://microdata.fao.org/index.php/catalog) and it is identical to FAO version (MEX_2018_DECOFOS-IIAS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS). The following two metadata fields were edited - Document ID and Survey ID.

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