application goals to cut back poverty, give protection to the environment

Santo Domingo.- The Dominican Environmental Consortium (CAD) on Thurs. launched a application that seeks to make a contribution to sustainability, reduce poverty, enhance the environmental circumstances of the productive landscape and improve biodiversity.

The initiative, which begins with 200 small macadamia growers in farms of San José de las Matas, Santiago Province, in the foothills of J. Armando Bermúdez country wide Park and the basin of the Inoa river, a tributary of the Yaque del Norte river.

The software, with the aid of Germany's international cooperation (GTZ), additionally seeks to promote the incorporation of criteria for biodiversity into the groups' sustainability method, as a differentiation element and in line with the need to have an environment-friendly consumption.