Currently there are 11 concessions altogether, nine community and two private (see table VII.7 and map VII.l). Although it was impossible to obtain qualitative and quantitative information on each of the concessions, it is known that about 900 people work in them either permanently or temporarily, and roughly 8.5% of these are women. Factors that have contributed to this include the associativity promoted by the Peten Forestry Communities Association (ACOFOP), international certification and the opening up of markets, the identification and gradual development of complementary productive alternatives —chiefly nature- and culture-tourism and the management of non-timber resources— and, clearly, the rise in income levels among the participants, which leads directly to an improvement in their living standards (Galvez, 2012). The organizational and business management capacity of the community concessions, their positioning and competitiveness in markets, and the diversification of the production of timber resources are issues that require further attention for this model to function optimally.