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Social acceptance is fundamental, and directly affects the installation of wind farms. In this paper, the factors that have had the greatest influence on the development of wind energy in the Itsmo region of Tehuantepec, Mexico are identified. The data were collected face to face through a semi-structured questionnaire of 31 people: owners, municipal authorities, opposition groups, and academic members. The results of the interview highlight the social impact, the lack of application, and concerning ILO Convention 169, the abuse of community rights. As a result, people interviewed perceive that the environmental impact of the installation, and operation of wind farms has been ambivalent: positive due to the intrinsic benefits that wind energy generates compared to other energy sources, and negative in terms of affectation by the noise, and the landscape. However, the income received by the owners of land in which wind facilities are located is lower compared to other parts of the world. In general, the facts show a disintegration between the authorities (federal, state, and municipal), universities are isolated from wind projects, communities are not consulted in projects, and large companies are the main beneficiaries.

This paper presents the case study of an SME whose main turn is the spraying and encapsulation of the Moringa oleifera leaf through the handmade production system. The SME markets the product in five presentations and produces 6200 capsules in ten hours with a total of one multifunctional operator per shift. Its supply chain is represented in four echelons: raw material preparation, manufacturing, marketing, and the final consumer. The encapsulation process of Moringa oleifera was analyzed, and the problems related to the excess inventory in the process, milligram per capsule difference, lack of standards to perform processes such as weight verification were detected. As a logistics strategy, the Demand Flow Technology methodology together with the operations diagrams and Value Stream Mapping to eliminate activities that do not add value to the product was applied. As a result, the correct assignment of tasks to workers and the increment of the production line productivity were achieved.

Diversas notas de portales electrónicos, documentales y en menor grado artículos de corte científico, han reportado el interés por mejorar el rendimiento de producción de miel por colmena. Entre estos trabajos pueden encontrarse reportados, en su forma dimensional, factores climáticos, sociales y tecnológicos, en donde expertos y especialistas reconocen que contribuyen a mejorar la producción de miel. Apoyado de expertos apícolas, del método Delphi y el análisis estructural MICMAC, en este artículo se reporta la influencia y dependencia de 22 variables y su relación directa e indirecta con la producción de miel en la región intermunicipal de Misantla del distrito apícola núm. 52. Las variables con base en MICMAC se clasifican en clave, reguladoras, palanca y autónomas. En el plano estratégico, la ‘ubicación del apiario’ relacionado con la ‘diversidad de floración melífera’ y el ‘tiempo que transcurre entre la colocación del apiario y la cosecha de miel’, representan las variables clave con mayor valor estratégico de 75/79, 61/79 y 63/79, respectivamente. Si bien, la ‘floración de especies melíferas’ es una variable clave para producción de miel, el resultado también indica que esta variable no es una determinante para que el apicultor decida la ‘ubicación de apiarios’. Estos resultados aportan conocimiento en cuatro categorías de variables influyentes en la producción de miel para que el apicultor reflexione sobre sus practica apícolas y pueda diseñar estrategias y tomar decisiones, para mejorar el rendimiento de producción miel.