PROCEDE's impact on indigenous Mexico
Introduction to Identifying the Impact of Land Tenure Changes on Indigenous
Mexico
As of May 2006, the research team has only begun to analyze the data
they have amassed at the national level. The research team always conceived
of the project in this way, doing all the heavy in-loading of information
up front, to enjoy our fruits of analysis later. And even now, further
processing continues. The new field, archival, and traditional data being
acquired in 2006 for the Huasteca but also for Oaxaca State will provide
a broader, representative data set with which the national data can be
compared. The most important variables to emerge from this analysis,
and their predictive capacities for important trends, will be identified,
mapped, and described in upcoming reports and journal articles. Here,
we present only a few maps as preliminary examples, merely to illustrate
the content and to demonstrate the potential of the enormous México
Indígena dataset.
In Figure 4.36, made with data from the 2001 Ejido Census, the ratio
of common use areas to parceled areas in the municipios (counties) is
shown for municipios in San Luis Potosi State. Darker areas have, on
average, proportionally larger common use areas in their communities,
keeping in mind that the analysis refers only to ejidos within the municipios,
and not agrarian communities or private property.
Figure 4.36. State of San Luis Potosi, ratio of common use surface area to parceled surface area, by municipio. (Source: México Indígena database, 2006).