Our case studies for Latin America focus on Brazil,
Bolivia, Guatemala,
and Mexico.
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Dr.
Peter May has dedicated his professional career to research,
administration and training in the economics and management of natural
resources for equitable rural development in the tropics. Dr. May's
experience encompasses 20 years of program administration, field
research, graduate level teaching and economics consultancy in Brazil,
Latin America and the Caribbean, Southeast Asia and the United States.
He holds a PhD in Resource Economics and a MRP in City and Regional
Planning, both from Cornell University. Founder and President of
the Advisory Council of the Brazilian Society for Ecological Economics
(ECOECO), he is presently a professor in the Graduate Program in
Development, Agriculture and Society at the Federal Rural University
of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as well as Executive Secretary of the
Brazilian Agroforestry Network-REBRAF. Dr. May has conducted extensive
research on the movement toward certified forest management in Brazil,
having most recently co-authored the studies "Barriers to Certified
Forest Management in the Amazon: the importance of cost" (IIED/GTZ,
2001) and "Forest Certification in Brazil" (Consumer Choice
Council, 2002). |
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Lincoln
Quevedo has been involved in forest certification since
1993. He has been two times President of the FSC Bolivian Initiative
and is currently a board member of FSC International. He holds a
degree in ecology and forest management and is a lecturer in ecology
and silviculture at the Gabriel Rene Moreno University in Santa
Cruz, Bolivia. In the field of certification, Mr. Quevedo is a founding
member of the FSC Bolivian National Initiative, a member of the
Bolivian Standards Committee and was involved as an advisor in the
creation of the FSC national initiatives of Peru, Nicaragua, and
Honduras. Mr. Quevedo has also worked for WWF, the Bolivian Forest
Superintendency, NGOs, and as a consultant for organizations such
as CIFOR and the Inter-American Development Bank. |
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Dr.
José Joaquín Campos is Director of Department
of Natural Resources and Environment at CATIE (Centro Agronómico
Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza) and Professor
of the Latin American Chair of Diversified Management of Tropical
Forests. His work and research on forest certification began in
1994 with the Costa Rican initiative on forest certification as
well as through advising and training for several graduate research
students on the subject. Since 1998 Dr. Campos has been a member
of the Costa Rican National Forest Certification Commission and
an advisor to the national process in Guyana. His research interests
include sustainable forest management, forest policy, payment for
environmental services, illegal logging and integrated management
of natural resources. Dr.Campos earned his D.Phil. in Forest Management
from the University of Oxford. |
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Dietmar
Stoian is Team Leader of the Center for Competitiveness
of Ecoenterprises (CeCoEco), based at the Tropical Agricultural
Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Turrialba, Costa
Rica. He earned his Ph.D. in Forest Economics from Freiburg University
(Germany), focusing on the socio-economic impact of non-timber forest
product use on household and regional economies in the Bolivian
Amazon. As a member of the Bolivian Council for Voluntary Forest
Certification, he participated in the elaboration of the Bolivian
standards for Brazil nut certification. His work and research on
forest certification began in 1993, analyzing the potential for
exports of certified wood furniture from the Brazilian Amazon to
Western Europe. Currently his group works to foster the competitiveness
and environmental performance of small and medium forest enterprises
in Central America within the framework of an IADB-MIF funded project.
In spring 2004, CeCoEco will launch the bilingual website "EcoNegocios
Forestales - Forest EcoBusiness" that seeks, among other things,
to facilitate trade in certified wood products. |
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Fernando
Carrera Gambetta is currently working in Costa Rica for
CATIE as Coordinator of the international course in Diversified
Management of Natural Forests in the Tropics, training specialist
for the TRANSFORMA project, and technical advisor in forest management
to communities in Honduras and Nicaragua. He has also worked for
CATIE as project leader for the CATIE/CONAP (National Council for
Protected Areas in Guatemala) Project, designing and implementing
community forestry concessions in the Maya Biosphere Reserve and
providing technical expertise to forest management projects, NGOs
and communities in Costa Rica. Mr. Carrera received a Master of
Science degree from CATIE in Biodiversity and Forest Management
and Conservation, with specialization in Silviculture and Natural
Forest Management and an undergraduate degree in Forest Engineering
from the National Agrarian University (La Molina), Lima, Peru. He
has also studied at the post-graduate level at the Federal University
of Para, Brazil and the Forestry and Forest Products Institute,
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Salvador Anta Fonseca is currently an independent
consultant involved in evaluating a number forestry-related projects
and institutions, including the adoption of forestry certification by
communities in Mexico. He has also participated in World Bank forestry
studies, forestry programs of the Mexican government, and organization
and training projects for certified and non-certified communities. Mr.
Anta founded and is a current member of the Advisory Council for the
Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Silviculture and has recently
been named Executive Director of the Civil Council for Sustainable Coffee
Production in Mexico. From 1995 to 2002, Mr. Anta represented the Mexican
Office of Environment and Natural Resources in Oaxaca. For the ten years
following his graduation in Biology from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma
de Mexico, where he also taught science and society courses, he worked
with indigenous peoples of Mexico on natural resource management research.
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