. Commercialization of non-timber forest products. Factors influencing success. Lessons learned from Mexico and Bolivia and policy implications for decision- makers. UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity Series Case studies: TepejiLote Tepejilote Chamaedorea tepejilote (Palmae) Palm flowers traded as a traditional aphrodisiac: how local markets became closer for rural men than women Juan Carlos Flores, Fabrice Edouard and Elaine Marshall The communities are situated in the municipality of Ixtlan de Juarez, known as El Rincon. in the Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico. 200 km by paved highway from Oaxaca city
. Commercialization of non-timber forest products. Factors influencing success. Lessons learned from Mexico and Bolivia and policy implications for decision- makers. UNEP-WCMC Biodiversity Series Case studies: TepejiLote Tepejilote Chamaedorea tepejilote (Palmae) Palm flowers traded as a traditional aphrodisiac: how local markets became closer for rural men than women Juan Carlos Flores, Fabrice Edouard and Elaine Marshall The communities are situated in the municipality of Ixtlan de Juarez, known as El Rincon. in the Sierra Norte, Oaxaca, Mexico. 200 km by paved highway from Oaxaca city (Figure ). The region is mountainous, rich in biodiversity, high in plant endemism and has extensive natural forests. Indigenous Zapotec communities have A community in El Rincon region, Oaxaca, Mexico. long utilized a variety of NTFPs including tepejilote and wild edible fungi. The area Is also characterized by the cultivation of coffee, as part of an agroforestry system. Tepejilote has provided a valuable alternative source of income when coffee prices have been at their lowest, both in the late 1980s and again In the late 1990s. San Miguel Tiltepec (Tiltepec) is located at an altitude of 1 830 metres, and despite having 13 000 ha of communal land, it Is considered more impoverished than Yagavila (see below). The 50 indigenous families here, whose ancestors arrived and settled over 500 years ago, are predominantly subsistence agriculturalists and coffee producers. Most families are involved In collecting tepejilote from communal land for both consumption and sale. The Involvement of women In harvesting is considered impor- tant because the tepejilote palm flowers from January to April, when men work full time on the coffee harvest. This provides women with one of the only options to generate their own Income, which Is Invested in the home. Santa Cruz Yagavila lYagavllal, at an altitude of 1 750 metres, has a larger population with 110 Zapotec families, but has only 2 AGO
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