1. CRC Bolivia at CERES
Venture: International Forestry Resources and
Institutions (IFRI) Research on Forest Social Ecological
Systems for Actionable Science
SESYNC 2013

2. Presentation
• 1. CRC Introduction and IFRI activities
• 2. Research projects
• 3. CRC future projects

3. 1. CRC Introduction
• CRC- CERES Centro de Estudios de la Realidad
Económica y Social. It’s a ONG founded in
1978
As research institution, main areas :
Political Regime, Social mobilization, Social conflicts
Poverty and Communal forest management
• Social conflict data base (1978-to day)
• Economic Observer whit database about
employment, inflation (3 years old)

4. • CRC since 1994.
• To date we have:
– 23 sites (8 revisites)
– 29 forests (11 whit out
plots)
– 66 User groups
• None forest no tropical
1. CRC Introduction

5. 1. CRC IFRI activities
Past and actual activities :
• 2003-7 SANREM (CO PI
Andersson, Ostrom).
• 2007 World Bank (PI
Agrawal)
• 2010-12 Biodiversity/
Carbon/Livelihhoods (PI S.
Rist).
• 2012-13 CNH Bosque
(Anderson and Agrawal)

6. 2. Actual Research activities
TIM Site in deep case study (P.I. R. León 2013)
• Question: ¿Why some Yuracarés have stop
protect their territory and forests while others
have engage in violent action to defend it?
• Conflicts other users
• Titling policies and
• problems they produce

7. 2. Research activities
• CERES –IBIF – Tropenbos and Duch embassy
(Jean Paul Benavides 2013)
• Exploratory work: ¿Which are the
characteristics of financing mechanism
(informal) of communal forest activities?

8. 2. Research activities
• Methods and results. AID inspired field work:
Meeting whit 12 FUG and 3 general
workshops. PRINCIPAL and QCA

9. 2. Research activities
• Results
Tabla 16 Determinantes del éxito de los emprendimientos forestales
Variables
Retorno a la comunidad
caso 1
caso 2
caso 3
Hay cuenta Banco
X
X
X
No tiene deuda
X
Retorno al bosque
Consolidación T
Legalidad
Vive dentro área
X
X
NoX
X
caso 4
X
X
X
X
NoX
X
X
X
X
Donación
X
Confianza negocio
X

10. 3 Needed Research
• Joint Mechanism for Mitigation and Adaptation
• Government Food Security Program

11. 1. CRC IFRI related activities
Actual activity
• 2012-13 CNH Bosque (Co PI Andersson, Agrawal) 4 revisits +
Payment for Ecosystemes Services game