On March 11, the Ministry of Environment and Energy in Costa Rica (MINAE) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation in Peru (MINAGRI) presented a program to exchange water harvesting technologies and water resource management. It has funding of up to 600 million colones from the European Union through the Forests, Biodiversity and Ecosystems EUROCLIMA+ program.
La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos manifiesta su repudio ante el asesinato de Sergio Rojas, líder indígena bribri, en Salitre, Costa Rica.
Sergio Rojas, a leader of the Bribrí community in Costa Rica, was murdered Monday night in the indigenous territory of Salitre.
An investigation into the death is underway, and President Carlos Alvarado has called the events “a tragic day for the Bribrí people, the indigenous communities and for all of Costa Rica.”
Costa Rica decided to take the challenge of decarbonizing its economy, for which the transportation sector represents a fundamental challenge, followed by the solid waste sector.
El Gobierno reconoce a la agricultura familiar como una actividad de relevancia nacional, y propone el diseño de políticas públicas enfocadas en mejorar las condiciones de vida de este sector
El Gobierno de Costa Rica formalizó hoy un acuerdo ejecutivo con el objetivo de impulsar nuevas y mejores políticas públicas diferenciadas en favor de la agricultura familiar y contribuir a su fortalecimiento.
An indigenous rights issue has put Costa Rica’s much-vaunted human rights record to the test as the country struggles to protect members of the Bribrí and Teribe indigenous communities from non-indigenous people who have forcibly, and at times violently, removed them from indigenous ancestral lands.
