Inadequate access to a clean, safe water supply deeply affects community health, food security, and the environment….Continue Reading
Maize and Beans will be imported to El Salvador, but what else will the drought bring?
Extreme weather and its effects on migration are becoming more difficult to ignore. This summer, agricultural communities in the Northern Triangle…Continue Reading
Migration’s hidden drivers: Climate change & food insecurity
Late summer and fall in El Salvador is harvest time, when farmers dry corn on hot asphalt roads and families gather… Continue Reading
Together we’re protecting mangrove forests.
Mangrove forests provide a wide array of valuable ecosystem services and play a critical role in climate change mitigation and adaptation. They sequester vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere, slow coastal erosion, and form a natural barrier that protects coastal communities from extreme weather. Mangrove ecosystems are a refuge for juvenile fish, a nesting […]
Mangrove Restoration Beginning to Bear Fruit
Sometimes, progress means helping nature do what it does best. This seems to be the case for a once-barren 200-acre piece of land surrounded by lush mangrove forests in El Salvador. Mangrove forests provide a vast array of valuable ecosystem services and play a critical role in climate change mitigation and adaptation; they sequester carbon, […]