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- According to World Bank statistics, a total of 36 percent of Costa Rica’s land use is attributed to agriculture, and it accounts for 14 percent of the country’s employment. This all makes the country vulnerable to climate change.
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Costa Rica receives the equivalent of USD 33 in technical cooperation for each dollar it contributes to IICA, revealed Institute authorities at the annual accountability meeting.
Jun 22, 2021 · Costa Rica. Costa Rica’s agricultural policies generated average support for producers of 6.3% of gross farm receipts in 2018-20, well below the OECD average. This support is almost entirely (92%) based on market price support (MPS).
Oct 20, 2021 · Costa Rica’s updated NDC reaffirms its commitment to becoming a carbon neutral economy in 2021, as a culmination of its pre-2020 climate actions. The SCALA Programme is helping Costa Rica achieve these goals, which will require transforming how the agriculture and land use sectors operate and incorporating adaptation and mitigation measures.
Oct 4, 2024 · The chapter summarizes essential information about landforms, soils, and climatic conditions in areas that have extensive agriculture as their main economic activity. This study highlights the regions and soils dedicated to cash crops and agricultural activities of Costa Rica.
- Landscape Ecological Assessment of Land Cover Changes
- Physical Trade Balances as Drivers of Land Cover Change
- Impact of Land Cover Change on Biodiversity
According to the land cover changes and landscape ecology indicators we have obtained through GIS from the new digital maps provided by the REDD + (Fernández-Landa et al. 2016), in Costa Rica, the land-matrix remained dominated by tropical forestlands, which during the years 1986–2014 covered 58–60% of the territory. Together with grasslands and pá...
Finally, we calculated the evolution of the physical trade balance of Costa Rica from 1961 to 2016 in order to relate our evaluation of these landscape changes assessed by means of landscape ecology indicators with the main driver of the unsustainable development path of Costa Rica put on the forefront by Hall et al. (2000) 20 years ago, namely, th...
Our maps, landscape ecology indicators, and statistical results clearly confirm two main facts. On the one hand, the forest transition started in the turn to the twenty-first century as well as the role these growing tropical forests play to maintain species richness—here evaluated using plants and birds in the INBio dataset as proxy—in a Central A...
- Andrea Montero, Joan Marull, Enric Tello, Claudio Cattaneo, Francesc Coll, Manel Pons, Juan Infante-...
- 2021
Experts addressing a panel discussion organized by Costa Rica’s Permanent Mission to the WTO, revealed that the country’s agricultural exports had increased, benefitting the rural economy and increasing food security.
Costa Rica’s strong agricultural sector is underpinned by the country’s political stability, robust economic growth and high levels of human development. The sector has achieved significant export success, yet raising productivity and staying competitive in world markets will require efforts to ...
