Biodiversity Conservation in Cacao Agro-forestry

The rationale of the project is to improve the management of cacao-based poor indigenous small-farms according to both ecological and organic productive principles so as to ensure conservation and sustainable use of plant and animal diversity and provide a sustainable source of family income. The overall objective of the project is to promote and maintain on-farm biodiversity while improving livelihoods of organic cacao producers (indigenou, Latin mestizos and Afrocaribbean groups) in the Talamanca-Caribbean corridor in Costa Rica.