Thesis (Ingeniero agrónomo administrador)--División de Ciencias Agropecuarias y Marítimas, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. / Includes questionnaire. Bibliography: leaves 72-77.

Tesis (Ingeniero agrónomo administrador)--Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: p. [70]-74.

Tesis (licenciado en derecho)--Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Escuela Nacional de Jurisprudencia. / Bibliography: p. [79]-[81].

Thesis (M.A.)--American University, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-120).

Thèse remaniée de: Diss.--Anthropology--Department of social anthropology, University of Stockholm. / Bibliogr. p. 219-227. Index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1977. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-265) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Arizona, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-190).

Tesis (Doctoral) -- Universiteit te Leiden, 1987. / Texto del sumario en inglés y holandés. Hoja de proposiciones de la tesis inserta. Incluye referencias bibliográficas: p. 318-330.

In central Mexico's semi-arid highlands, mesquite (Prosopis spp.) pods are utilized for food and livestock feed. In 1975, a union of 53 rural communities opened a storage and processing facility for mesquite pods. A study of the operation and the regional collection, sales, and use of mesquite was conducted to evaluate the industry's potential. Twenty-six communities were visited, and formal interviews were held with 35 subsistence farmers, 12 mesquite feed dealers, eight large-scale ranchers, and members of the mesquite union. The effect of climatic factors on mesquite pod harvests was analyzed. The study examined opportunity costs for land and labor and the costs and returns of improvements to the operation. The mesquite facility has increased income production for rural farmers and provided a local source of nutritious livestock feed. Potential improvements to the industry include pest control, production of mixed feeds, improved management, and marketing. Similar operations could succeed in areas with dense mesquite woodlands, a history of pod collection and use, and a need for seasonal income production.

xiv, 219 p. : ill. (some col.) A print copy of this title is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / This dissertation examines popular responses to property rights reforms in Mexico by comparing two ejidos in the southeastern state of Yucatan. As part of a series of neoliberal reforms enacted in the 1980s and 1990s in Mexico, the federal government altered the existing property rights regime to enable the division and privatization of previously protected communal land. I argue that the responses to the reforms were contingent on the historical development of institutional rules, political and economic practices, and cultural values. In the first case study, Mani­, ejidatarios accepted the new rules while simultaneously expressing concern over changes in the process of becoming an ejidatario, a rights holder making land tenure decisions. Community members used the new rules to guarantee access to land and the ejido system by purchasing individualized parcelas of ejido land in part because they gained material benefits, such as secure access to state-funded irrigation systems. The rise in the remittance-economy and population pressures increased local demand for land and provided the income for local buyers. In Hunucma, the other case study, ejidatarios contested the state-imposed rules as violations of their traditional usos y costumbres. They fought against land sales for the construction of a new airport, rejecting the legitimacy of the formal property system because the new rules had been manipulated by state officials and land speculators. In doing so the ejidatarios revived and re-deployed historical cross- ejido alliances and habits of militancy and mobilization. Both cases reveal that property rights regimes are more than institutions but rather political configurations of control over resources, whereby the distribution of rights and subjective interpretation of the rules and practices determine local responses. / Adviser: Dennis Galvan