Zapotec Indians are growing a forest while harvesting jobs
By Elisabeth Malkin | New York Times | Updated: 2010-12-26 09:24
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A Zapotec Indian community uses sustainable farming techniques to support its furniture and timber businesses. Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times |
IXTLaN de JUaREZ, Mexico - Three decades ago the Zapotec Indians here in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico fought for and won the right to communally manage the forest. Before that, state-owned companies had exploited it as they pleased under federal government concessions.
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