I thought Costa Rica was a lot more progressive than Peru. Don't they pay farmers there to preserve forest? Things are pretty out of hand here. As much money as the government takes from the citizens, you'd think they'd actually do their jobs. If someone is clearcutting (and burning) a tract of land zoned as forest, you'd think it would be as simple as calling the police and the people being arrested within the hour. Instead, the Peruvian government opts for a much more bureaucratic process that inadvertently gives the offenders up to another month and a half to keep destroying more forest before the gov't forestry agency is obligated to visit the site.
It only is progressive in tourist areas and in media. the amount of money they pay for reforestation is enough to pay your yearly property taxes, not more than that. Laws here are very poorly imposed. after someone stole our electric meter, police itself tells us to put up a high fence, a camera, get a couple of guard dogs and some loud geese 😩. Their investigation ends at taking a report and photos of the "crime scene". Even violent criminals (caught during an organized robbery, for example) let go after 48 hours in many cases. and everyone burns plastic garbage though it's illegal, and does controlled fires of fields, though it's illegal, too. organic certification here is a joke, you basically just need to keep a journal and tick mark things you do, and tell the inspector "yes" or "no" for him/her to tick mark a form. The local organic association guy lives 15 meters from Delmonte fields and sells his produce in the farmers market as organic, and teaches others how to farm organically.
Many nasty chemicals that are prohibited in Europe and even in the US find their way here; common people think that Glyphosate is organic and that "soil doesn't have enough nutrients so we have to put in fertilizers" (direct quote, I'm not kidding....) no one ever using protection while spraying; lots of education is needed to prevent locals from ending up like in Madagascar, because Delmonte and Chiquita (the biggest ag players here) are doing their quick and dirty job of destroying the biodiversity and soil, and the local culture makes it too easy to use chemicals to make everything look "clean" and "neat", just burn all the grasses with glyphosate "only once", and you will have no problem with pasto - that's what our neighbor keeps telling us every time he passes by... he did it, and now he has a perfectly manicured soccer field that no one ever plays in.
I wonder how it is on Peter's side, because here in Perez it's very hard.