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Guatemalan forests face a major set of challenges: sustained deforestation,��persistent management issues, a weak forest sector economy and an��unsustainable dependence on fuelwood. To help address these issues, the��Guatemalan government programme of payment for environmental services��(PES) is credited with reforesting over 112,000 hectares of land. This programme��has created a vision toward a dramatic expansion of incentives to encourage��restoration on a much larger scale.��

������ϲʿ�������ֳ�ֱ�� and partners helped support the design of a forest law,��PROBOSQUES, which establishes an incentive programme providing at least��US$ 39 million per year in government funding for reforestation, restoration��and��sustainable forest management over the next 30 years. They also��facilitated the development of a national strategy on forest landscape restoration (FLR), which��commits the government to restore 1.2 million hectares of degraded land. Farmers in the Lachua��ecoregion were also supported in the development of high-value, cocoa-based agroforestry��systems. These systems are not only boosting incomes and creating jobs as Guatemala��establishes itself in the global chocolate market, but are also demonstrating that tree planting��makes good business sense for farmers.

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