Méndez, V. E. (2008) Farmer livelihoods and biodiversity conservation in a coffee landscape of El Salvador. pp. 207-236. In  C. M. Bacon, V. E. Mendez, S.R. Gliessman, D. Goodman & J. A. Fox (eds.) Confronting the coffee crisis: Fair Trade, sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems in Mexico and Central America. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, U.S.A. pdf  

Bacon, C.M., V. E. Méndez, S.R. Gliessman, D. Goodman & J. A. Fox (eds.) (2008) Confronting the coffee crisis: Fair Trade, sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems in Mexico and Central America. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, USA. Order from MIT Press

Bacon, C.M., V.E. Méndez & J.A. Fox (2008) Cultivating sustainable coffee: persistent paradoxes. pp.337-372. In C. M. Bacon, V. E. Mendez, S.R. Gliessman, D. Goodman & J. A. Fox (eds.) Confronting the coffee crisis: Fair Trade, sustainable livelihoods and ecosystems in Mexico and Central America. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.

Bacon, C.M., V.E. Méndez, M.E. Flores, D. Stuart & S.R. Diaz (2008) Are sustainable coffee certifications enough to secure farmer livelihoods? the millenium development goals and Nicaragua's Fair Trade cooperatives. Globalizations 5(2): 259-274. pdf

Bacon, C., V.E. Méndez, M.E. Flores & M. Brown (2008) Will "we" achieve the millenium development goals with small-scale coffee growers and their cooperatives? a case study evaluating Fair Trade and organic coffee networks in northern Nicaragua.  Center Research Brief # 12. Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.  University of California: Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Available online: pdf

Bacon, C. M., E. Whitlow-Inman & V. E. Méndez (2008) Agroecology, a next step in sustainable coffee. Fresh Cup, February:82-87. pdf

2007

Méndez, V. E., S.R. Gliessman, and G.S. Gilbert (2007) Tree biodiversity in farmer cooperatives of a shade coffee landscape in western El Salvador.  Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 119(1-2):145-159. pdf

Méndez, V.E. (2007) Procesos ecologicos y medios de vida agricolas en el cultivo de cafe bajo sombra. LEISA Revista de Agroecologia (Peru) 22, 26-28.pdf

Gliessman, S. R., F. Rosado-May, C. Guadarrama-Zugasti, J. Jedlicka, A. Cohn, V. E. Méndez, R. Cohen, L. Trujillo, C. Bacon & R. Jaffe (2007) Agroecologia: promoviendo una transicion hacia la sostenibilidad (Agroecology: promoting a transition towards sustainability). Ecosistemas (Spain) 16(1): 13-28.  pdf

Méndez, V.E. & S.T. Lovell (2007) Ecosystem Services Conservation and Farmer Livelihoods in a Shade Coffee Landscape of Western El Salvador.  Electronic Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on “Multi-Strata Agroforestry Systems with Perennial Crops: Making ecosystem services count for farmers, consumers and the environment.” September 17 – 21, 2007. CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica. pdf

Gershenson, A., K. Holl, P. Holloran, J. Jedlicka, V.E. Méndez, D. Mulvaney, B. Petersen, A. Spalding & M. Vasey (2007) Mann, A. 2005. 1491: New revelations of the Americas before Columbus. Alfred Knopf: New York, NY, 465 pp.  Book Review for Restoration Ecology 15(1): 168-169.

2005-2006

Méndez, V. E. & C. Bacon (2006) Ecological processes and farmer livelihoods in shaded coffee production.  Invited Article.  LEISA (The Netherlands) 22(4): 22-23.  pdf

Méndez, V. E., C. Bacon, S. Petchers, D. Herrador, C. Carranza, L. Trujillo, C. Guadarrama-Zugasti, A. Cordon & A. Mendoza (2006) Sustainable coffee from the bottom-up: impacts of certification initiatives on small-scale farmer and estate worker households and communities in Central America and Mexico. Research Report. Oxfam America: Boston, MA.

Méndez, V.E. (2005) Cafe con sombra y alternativas para reducir la presion del cambio del uso del suelo en la zona Sur de Ahuachapan, El Salvador (Shade coffee and alternatives to reduce pressure of land use change in the Southern zone of Ahuachapan, El Salvador).  UICN-Proyecto BASIM: San Jose, Costa Rica.  56 p. pdf

Méndez, V.E. & C. Bacon (2005) Medios de vida y conservacion de la biodiversidad arborea: las experiencias de las cooperativas cafetaleras en El Salvador y Nicaragua (Livelihoods and conservation of tree biodiversity: experiences in coffee cooperatives of El Salvador and Nicaragua).  LEISA Revista de Agroecologia (Peru) 20(4): 27-30.  pdf

Bacon, C., V.E. Méndez & M. Brown (2005) Participatory action-research and support for community development and conservation:  Examples from shade coffee landscapes of El Salvador and Nicaragua.  Center Research Brief # 6. Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.  University of California: Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Available online: http://repositories.cdlib.org/casfs/rb/brief_no6/

Gomez, I. & V. E. Méndez (2005) Asociacion de comunidades forestales de Peten, Guatemala: contexto, logros y desafios (Association of forestry communities of Peten, Guatemala: context, accomplishments & challenges).  PRISMA: San Salvador, El Salvador. Available online: http://www.prisma.org.sv/pubs/pubs_s.htm

2002-2004

Méndez, V. E. (2004) Intercambio de "agricultor a agricultor" entre cuatro cooperativas cafetaleras de El Salvador y la Central de Cooperativas Cafetaleras del Norte (CECOCAFEN), Nicaragua. ASINDEC: San Salvador, El Salvador. pdf

Gliessman, S. R., C. Bacon, R. Cohen, C. Guadarrama-Zugasti, L. Trujillo & V. E. Méndez (2004) Qu'est-ce que l'agroecologie?(What is agroecology?)  l' Ecologiste (French edition of the Ecologist) 5 (3):27-29.

Cuellar, N., V. E. Méndez, S. Larios & L. Dimas (2003) Tendencias y perspectivas del sector forestal en El Salvador del siglo XX (Tendencies and perspectives of the forestry sector in El Salvador for the 21st century). FAO/MAG: San Salvador, El Salvador.

Rosa, H., S. Kandel, L. Dimas & V. E. Méndez (2003) Payments for environmental services and rural communities: Lessons from the Americas. Conference Paper No. 14. International Conference on Natural Assets. 8-11 January. Tagaytay City: The Phillipines. Available on-line:  http://www.umass.edu/peri/icnapapers.html.

Méndez, V.E. y S.R. Gliessman (2002) Un enfoque interdisciplinario para la investigacion en agroecologia y desarrollo rural en el tropico Latinoamericano (An interdisciplinary approach for research in agroecology and rural development in the Latin American tropics).  Manejo Integrado de Plagas y Agroecologia (Costa Rica) 64: 5-16. Available on-line:  pdf

Méndez, V. E. (2002) Sombra, medios de vida rural y conservacion en pequenas fincas y cooperatives cafetaleras del occidente de El Salvador (Shade, rural livelihoods and conservation in small coffee farms and cooperatives of western El Salvador). pp. 63-69. In  A. Monro & M. C. Pena-Chamorro (eds.) Actas del Simposio sobre Cafe y Biodiversidad/Revista Proteccion Vegetal 12(2). The Natural History Museum (London)/Universidad de El Salvador: San Salvador, El Salvador.

Méndez, V. E. (2002) Fair trade networks in two coffee cooperatives of western El Salvador:  an analysis of insertion through a second level organization.  Case Study for the Project on "Poverty Alleviation Through Participation in Fair Trade Networks". Colorado State University/Ford Foundation: Ft. Collins, CO, USA. Available on-line: 

www.colostate.edu/Depts/Sociology/FairTradeResearchGroup/.

Méndez, V. E., D. Herrador, L. Dimas, M. Escalante, O. Diaz & M. Garcia (2002) Cafe con sombra y pago por servicios ambientales:  riesgos y oportunidades para impulsar mecanismos con pequenos agricultores de El Salvador (Shade coffee and payment for environmental services:  risks and opportunities to foster mechanisms with small-scale farmers in El Salvador). Estudio de Caso para El Proyecto “Pago por Servicios Ambientales en las Americas” PRISMA/Fundacion FORD: San Salvador, El Salvador.

Herrador, D., L. A. Dimas &  V. E. Méndez (2002) Pago por servicios ambientales en El Salvador: oportunidades y riesgos para pequeos agricultores y comunidades rurales(Payment for environmental services in El Salvador: opportunities and risks for small-scale farmers and rural communities). PRISMA: San Salvador, El Salvador. 

Méndez, V.E. (2002) Gliessman, S. R. 2002. Agroecologia: procesos ecologicos en la agricultura sostenible . CATIE: Turrialba, Costa Rica. 359 p. Book Review in Manejo Integrado de Plagas y Agroecologia (Costa Rica) (2002) No. 65: 130.

Méndez, V.E. (2002) Monro, A., D. Alexander, J. Reyes, M. Renderos & N. Ventura 2001. Arboles de los cafetales de El Salvador (Trees of the coffee plantations of El Salvador). The Natural History Museum/MARN/PROCAFE/UES/Jardin Botanico La Laguna: San Salvador, El Salvador. Book Review in Plant Cuttings On-line (2002) Issue No. 8.  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/botany/cuttings/issue8/publications/index.html.

2000-2001

Méndez V.E., R. Lok & E. Somarriba (2001) Interdisciplinary analysis of homegardens in Nicaragua: micro-zonation, plant use and socioeconomic importance. Agroforestry Systems 51(2): 85-96.  pdf

Méndez, V.E. (2001) SNV-Netherlands Development Organization and AID Environment. 1999. SEAN Toolbook. Contains booklet with theoretical background to Strategic Environmental Analysis (SEAN); Case study; Process cards*SEAN graphs.  SNV: The Hague, the Netherlands.  Book Reviewed in Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor 9 (3): 35-36.

Méndez V.E. (2000) An assessment of tropical homegardens as examples of local sustainable agroforestry systems. pp 51-66. In S.R. Gliessman (ed.) Agroecosystem sustainability: developing practical strategies.  CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL, USA.

Méndez V. E., J. Beer, J. Faustino & A. Otarola (2000) Plantacion de arboles en linea (Line tree planting).  Modulo de Ensenanza Agroforestal 1.  2a Edicion. Serie Materiales de Ensenanza 39. CATIE: Turrialba, Costa Rica. 134 p.

1996-1999

Méndez, E., G. Calvo & M. Ortiz (1999) Caracterizacion de la comunidad Ngobe de Valle de Risco, Bocas del Toro, Panama  (Characterization of the Ngobe community of Valle de Risco, Bocas del Toro, Panama). Revista Forestal Centroamericana (Costa Rica) 28: 32-36.

Méndez, V. E., R. Lok &  E. Somarriba (1999) Interdisciplinary analysis of homegardens: a case study from Nicaragua. Pp. 260-263. In F. Jimenez & J. Beer (eds.) Proceedings of the International Symposium on Multi-strata Agroforestry Systems with Perennial Crops. CATIE: Turrialba, Costa Rica.

Calvo, G., V.E. Méndez & M. Ortiz (1999) El proceso agroforestal participativo en Valle de Risco, Bocas del Toro (The participatory agroforestry process in Valle de Risco, Bocas del Toro). Agroforesteria en las Americas (Costa Rica) 6(21): 17-19.

Méndez V. E., J. Beer & J. Faustino (1998) Plantacion de arboles en linea (Line tree planting).  Modulo de Ensenanza Agroforestal 1.  Serie Materiales de Ensenanza 39. 1 Edicion.  CATIE: Turrialba, Costa Rica. 117 p.

Lok, R. & V.E. Méndez (1998) El uso del ordenamiento local del espacio para una clasificacion de huertos en Nicaragua (The use of local spatial organization for the classification of homegardens in Nicaragua). Pp 129-149. In R. Lok (ed) Huertos caseros tradicionales de America Central: caracteristicas, beneficios e importancia desde un enfoque multidisciplinario. CATIE: Turrialba, Costa Rica.

Méndez, E. & R. Lok (1997) Analisis agroecologico de huertos caseros tradicionales en Nicaragua (Agroecological analysis of traditional homegardens in Nicaragua). CATIE (ed.) Actas de la III Semana Cientifica, CATIE. 3-5 Feb. pp. 240-244. CATIE: Turrialba, Costa Rica. 

Méndezz V.E., R. Lok & E. Somarriba (1996) Analisis agroecologico de huertos caseros en Nicaragua (Agroecological analysis of homegardens in Nicaragua) .  Agroforesteria en las Americas (Costa Rica) 10: 36-40.

Shelton M.D., V.R. Walters, D. Brandl & V.E. Méndez (1996)  Refrigerated controlled atmosphere storage during marine shipment on insect mortality and cut flower vase life.  HortTechnology (U.S.A.) 6(3): 247-250.