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<journal-id>2215-3896</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de Ciencias Ambientales]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Ciencias Ambientales]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2215-3896</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2215-38962026000100001</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15359/rca.60-1.1</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La necesidad de incentivos financieros para fomentar los sistemas agroforestales como islas de biodiversidad en paisajes degradados]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The need for financial incentives to promote agroforestry systems as biodiversity islands in degraded landscapes]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Montagnini]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Florencia]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Yale University School of the Environment The Forest School]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[New Haven Connecticut]]></addr-line>
<country>USA</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>60</volume>
<numero>1</numero>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2215-38962026000100001&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2215-38962026000100001&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2215-38962026000100001&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Los sistemas agroforestales (SAF) están adquiriendo más relevancia, debido a sus múltiples funciones en la soberanía alimentaria, restauración, protección de la biodiversidad y herramientas de adaptación y mitigación del cambio climático. Por tanto, es necesario encontrar incentivos financieros para promoverlos, especialmente para los SAF cuyo diseño y manejo proporcionan servicios ecosistémicos, tales como actuar como &#8220;islas de biodiversidad&#8221; en paisajes alterados. Los créditos de biodiversidad voluntarios (CBV) son una alternativa que estamos examinando para su aplicación en SAF con especies perennes, como cacao, yerba mate y otros, para los cuales existen estándares que podrían aplicarse para acceder a estos créditos.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Agroforestry systems (AFS) are becoming more relevant due to their multiple roles in food sovereignty, restoration, biodiversity protection, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. Financial incentives are needed to promote them, especially for AFS whose design and management provide ecosystem services such as acting as &#8220;biodiversity islands&#8221; in altered landscapes. Voluntary biodiversity credits (VBC) are an alternative that we are examining for application in AFS with perennial species such as cacao, yerba mate and others for which there are standards that could be applied to access VBC.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[créditos de biodiversidad voluntarios]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[incentivos]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[investigación agroforestal]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[servicios ecosistémicos;, soberanía alimentaria]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[voluntary biodiversity credits]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[incentives]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[agroforestry research]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[ecosystem services]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[food sovereignty]]></kwd>
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