GPConnect Evaluating a community program in Paraguay, Chaco region

Large tracts of the central and northern Chaco have high soil fertility, sandy alluvial soils with elevated levels of phosphorus and a topography that is favourable for agricultural development, but in combination with aspects that are challenging for farming: a semi-arid to semi-humid climate (600--1300 mm annual rainfall) with a six-month dry season and sufficient fresh groundwater restricted to roughly one third of the region, two thirds being without groundwater or with groundwater of high salinity. Soils are generally erosion prone once the forest has been cleared. In the central and northern Paraguay Chaco occasional dust storms have caused major top soil loss.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• community
• Chaco
• Paraguay
• gpconnect
• social
• region
• entrepreneurship
• indigenous
• people
• American
• Indians