{"id":10420,"date":"2010-02-25T22:27:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bioma.redlac.org\/?p=10420"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:24:04","slug":"payment-for-environmental-services-in-costa-rica-the-national-forestry-financing-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bioma.redlac.org\/?p=10420","title":{"rendered":"Payment for Environmental Services in Costa Rica: The National Forestry Financing Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Costa Rican Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) program is the global pioneer in incentives national forest conservation. <\/strong><\/p>

In 1996, Forestry law 7575 set up The National Forestry Financing Fund (FONAFIFO) to encourage the conservation and reforestation of lands outside of national parks and wildlife reserves.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\n FON- AFIFO\u2019s general objective is to finance small and medi- um-sized producers, through loans or other mechanisms, to promote forest plantation and reforestation process- es, the establishment of forest nurseries and agroforestry systems, the rehabilitation of deforested areas, and also to benefit from technological advances in the use and industrialization of forest resources. The program now covers 500,000 hectares\u2014more than 10 percent of the country\u2014and has between 8,000 and 10,000 people en- rolled. The goal FONAFIFO is to expand the payments\u2019 area of influence to one million hectares. <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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