Prodesis (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prodesis was a development project in the Lacandon region of Chiapas, Mexico, that ran from 2004 to 2008. Mexico]Chiapas+Prodesis.jpg The aim of the project was to reduce pressure on the rainforest and combat poverty among its inhabitants, most of them being Mayan Indians and subsistence peasants. As re-formulated on start-up in 2003, Prodesis focussed on 16 of the 34 micro-regions identified by PIDSS. These "micro-regions" were defined by suitability for particular approaches to social and economic development and included Agua Azul, Avellanal, Amador Hernndez, Betania, Benemerito de las Amricas, Carmen Villaflores, Comunidad Lacandona, Damasco, Francisco I Madero, Maravilla Tenejapa, Marqus de Comillas, Nah, Nuevo Francisco Len, Nuevo Huixtn, Rio Blanco, and Santo Domingo