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Costa Rica farmers see value in biodiversity

Photo: What's a warbler to a farmer in Costa Rica? In Costa Rica farmers are finding that preserving nature may be their best defense against a changing climate. Watch our latest Food for 9 Billion report, in collaboration with PBS NewsHour and PRI's The World: http://bit.ly/11x4wUO "This Rufous-Capped Warbler is a voracious insectivore that's been found to suppress up to 50 percent of the damage on coffee farms by the coffee borer beetle, an introduced pest with no effective pesticide to control its infestations."For more images on Costa Rica's biodiversity: http://to.pbs.org/12DITbW Photo by Sam Eaton/Homelands Productions

June 10, 2013, cironline.org, | “Agriculture represents one of the biggest threats to the planet’s biodiversity. But in Costa Rica, farmers are discovering that preserving nature on their land may be their best defense against a changing climate.”

“What’s good for warblers is good for people too!
What’s a warbler to a farmer in Costa Rica?
In Costa Rica farmers are finding that preserving nature may be their best defense against a changing climate. Watch our latest Food for 9 Billion report, in collaboration with PBS NewsHour and PRI’s The World: http://bit.ly/11x4wUO “This Rufous-Capped Warbler is a voracious insectivore that’s been found to suppress up to 50 percent of the damage on coffee farms by the coffee borer beetle, an introduced pest with no effective pesticide to control its infestations.”
For more images on Costa Rica’s biodiversity: http://to.pbs.org/12DITbW

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