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Arnuldo Corrales is one of some 8,000 farmers in Nicaragua who are collaborating with an innovative government program to conserve soil and protect natural resources. Photo by Roger Hamilton—IDB.

A land renewed

Despite war and natural catastrophe, Nicaragua can teach some lessons in wise land management

Something is changing in the landscape around the northern Nicaraguan city of Matagalpa. But the changes are subtle, nothing like the aftershocks of the disasters that have pummeled this area in recent years...

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