I chose to set up this agroecosystem in Costa Rica after several trips to this country, the first of which was during my final Master’s Degree in Primate Behavior and Preservation at the University of Kent. Following howler monkeys and spider monkeys in the lush forests of Costa Rica, immediately an appeal for the biodiversity of these Central American forests manifested itself in me. If we add this attraction for tropical life to the different experiences of working on different farms in tropical regions and, above all, the period of 9 months spent in the rainforest in Guinea, I feel quite able to become permanently involved in a project under tropical conditions. The curiosity for the functioning of Life allows me to try to understand the living complexity that will lead to an optimal production of the agroecosystem. It is this curiosity that led me to realize a Master in Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology at the Free University of Brussels. Already attracted since early childhood by wild animals and their behaviour, I started my Bachelor in General Biology with the aim of becoming an ethiologist. But it is by discovering the knowledge of molecular biology, which makes it possible to understand how Life is arranged, that I have chosen the orientation of my future Master. And it’s because of that choice that I have, today, knowledge about the functioning of cells and living organisms that will allow me to understand how to optimize biotic and abiotic conditions in order to make Life flourish in the agroecosystem. On the other hand, my youthful interest in animals, their behaviors and their interactions allowed me to extend my curiosity to the complexity of ecosystems very early on, bringing me the understanding and knowledge that will be necessary for the establishment, as well as for the eternal improvement of an agroecosystem. My experience of 9 months in Guinea as a volunteer at the Chimpanzee Conservation Centre has, above all, proved to me that I had a value essential to the implementation of my project: the ability to engage in values and the pursuit of meaning rather than profit. Also, this period in contact with orphaned chimpanzees in the middle of the forest threatened by human exploitation gave me 3 main teachings (i) the joy of my commitment to the benefit of a collective movement that espouses values similar to mine (ii) my need to better understand the immense ecosystems that are forests and the monkeys that are their “gardeners” (iii) solutions must be found to enable humans to benefit from the productivity of life in a sustainable way for themselves and other living species. It is, then, in the year of my second Master in England, in contact with many people dedicating their lives to the preservation of species or ecosystems, that I have realized that the present way of producing our food is the main cause of man’s clumsiness towards Nature. Contemporary agriculture is so inefficient in food production that the space allocated to it must constantly increase, which leads to uncontrolled deforestation. The destruction of plant biomass, the primary producers, leads inexorably to the loss of animal biomass, the consumers. The ineffectiveness of agriculture forces poachers to kill game in the forest to feed their families. In addition, this inefficient agriculture fills rivers, oceans and the atmosphere with chemicals that are harmful to life…. The idea of establishing an agroecosystem was thus born in me as the result of all the experiences of my life course. This seed has been sprouting in my head and heart for four years now. And so, at the age of 33, in early 2019, I felt close and robust enough, from my intellectual and practical skills and my lifelong desire to get out of my comfort zone, to meet the inhabitants of the Caribbean area of Costa Rica in order to buy them a parcel of land. On the other hand, my curiosity, my ability to listen and question and my humility will allow me to integrate the learning and advice that will lead to the success of this project.