Gastvortrag im Rahmen des Osnabrücker Geographischen Kolloquiums (englisch) |

Referent: Dr. Fabricio Camacho-Céspedes, National Technical University, Costa Rica |

Fabricio Camacho is a forestry engineer and professor of Agroforestry Systems at Costa Rica's National Technical University. He is the Executive Director of the Tropical Agroforestry Institute, a start-up located in Monteverde, Costa Rica striving to promote the adoption of agroforestry as a tool for productive landscape restoration and biodiversity conservation in biological corridors.

Costa Rica´s trajectory in sustainability and environmental stewardship through Agroforestry, a multifunctional 3D farming Approach - A multi-purpose solution to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and food security.

Costa Rica, a small Central American nation, is renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity and pioneering environmental conservation efforts. In a world of chaos and crises, this small country has been able to maintain its political stability and improve its ecological balance. In this lecture, Dr. Camacho, a Costa Rican native, will delve into the trajectory that has placed Costa Rica as a global reference in environmental stewardship. He will also describe the environmental challenges that remain as major threats to the country`s ecological integrity and the latest innovations the nation is developing to address those challenges. One of these innovations is Agroforestry, an emergent farming approach with the potential to restore the natural productivity of the landscape, produce economic benefits and generate invaluable ecosystem services.