Inter Press ServiceEcobreves - CENTRAL AMERICA: Financing Micro-Enterprise to Protect Environment https://www.ipsnews.net/2007/05/ecobreves-central-america-financing-micro-enterprise-to-protect-environment/ News and Views from the Global South Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:02:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 Ecobreves – CENTRAL AMERICA: Financing Micro-Enterprise to Protect Environment https://www.ipsnews.net/2007/05/ecobreves-central-america-financing-micro-enterprise-to-protect-environment/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2007/05/ecobreves-central-america-financing-micro-enterprise-to-protect-environment/#respond Mon, 28 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 IPS Correspondents and No author http://ipsnews.net/?p=120227 By IPS Correspondents and - -
TEGUCIGALPA, May 26 2007 (IPS)

The United Nations Development Program and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration will provide support to the tune of 27.9 million dollars to micro-business in the region that protect the environment. The project will encourage environmentally-friendly techniques for farming, forestry, ecotourism and fishing, Honduran Industry and Trade Minister Lizzie Azcona told Tierramérica.

Honduran entrepreneur Adolfo Facussé, the leading promoter of micro-enterprise through the Covelo Foundation, said in a Tierramérica interview that this support “only shows the strategic importance of micro-enterprise for the economy and for the environment.”

In Honduras, whose share of the UNDP/BCIE funds has not been determined, there are about 258,000 micro-businesses in operation.

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