$2.30 is enough to feed a family in the Peruvian Amazon for a day.
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- A pioneering project in Peru is giving $2.30 a day to people in Indigenous communities.
- Reducing poverty removes a lot of the incentives for deforestation, the organizers told BI.
- Those without money worries are less likely to sell their land or work for logging companies, they said.
Groups backing a universal basic income trial in Peru are hoping that unconditional payments to Indigenous...