COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND ACTION IN NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN COMMON USE IN THE MIXTECA OAXAQUEÑA

Abstract

Participatory appraisal was conducted on the use and management of natural resources in the Community of Guadalupe Cuautepec, Suchitepec, Oaxaca, with the aim of defining strategies for the use and sustainable management of natural resources, from situational awareness, perception and participatory community analysis. Natural resources are important as a livelihood. However, the pressure exerted on natural resources, environmental consequences. Therefore, it is essential to its conservation through management that consider social and environmental aspects. The use of participatory methods in natural resource management is a tool of knowledge and action, to ntervene effectively in the dynamics of community processes and maintain the natural heritage. Participatory appraisal identified from the community perception and situational problems in the use and management of natural resources. It also provides important elements for planning and integrated management of the community territory in space and time. The community action plan stablished the type of actions that the community made to the sustainable management of natural resources. The community recognizes the problems that exist in the use of natural resources, likewise, identify alternative solutions for a more appropriate management and conservation of them, however, are aware that they need to strengthen their capacities. The community thus becomes a territory of dialogue, participation and learning for all stakeholders. What is sought, with this type of articipatory research, is to strengthen the livelihoods of communities in the Mixteca Oaxaqueña, communality.

Keywords

• Participatory appraisal
• Planning
• Community space
• Socioenvironmental