Working against Land Degradation in Costa Rica
Channel: ELDinitiative #ELDsolutions
Date: 2020-11-05

In 2012, the Costa Rican farmer Allen Rojas Mora had a problem: he inherited a coffee farm in the most degraded valley of Costa Rica, the valley of Río Jesús in the region of Pácifico Central. Eventhough everything there seemed normal and nature the most abundant, soil quality was poor because of its intensive and one-sided use. It could not sufficently nourish crops anymore as nutrients were missing. Allen's production was very low... 
8 years later, with the support of the Costa Rican Advisory Committee on Land Degradation (CADETI), his farm flourishes again. Watch to know how...

GIZ advises and supports CADETI to act on sustainable land management in order to achieve land degradation neutrality (more on that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7uDAA_3VHk&t=102s)

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