Sugarcane production has more than doubled in El Salvador over the last several decades, especially in the eastern region surrounding the Bay of Jiquilisco. The department of Usulután, particularly in the Lower Lempa zone where our partners the Mangrove Association and La Coordinadora del Bajo Lempa are based, has experienced the greatest growth rates since […]
Welcoming Our Newest Advisory Board Members
I am pleased to welcome our newest members of the EcoViva Advisory Board: Naomi Klein and Avram Lewis. Naomi and Avi are great friends of EcoViva and have gotten to know our work and issues firsthand through our partners with the Mangrove Association. Avi traveled with us to El Salvador in 2012 to shoot footage for an upcoming documentary […]
100,000 Sea Turtles Released in El Salvador!
Last week, the community of Montecristo celebrated completing the first phase of the “Quelonia” project, named after the Spanish classification for turtles and spearheaded by FIAES. During the peak of sea turtle season (August-January), community members incubated 125,000 eggs in the community run hatchery and released a total of 100,000 baby sea turtles, surpassing its […]
Community Members and Engineers Team up for Solar
What do you get when you mix bright minds, a little sweat, and lots of sunshine? Simple: innovative community-led solutions for a sustainable future. During Thanksgiving week, residents of the community of San Hilario and engineers from the University of Oklahoma teamed up to harness the power of the sun and expand learning opportunities for […]
Planting Financially Sustainable Seeds in the Lower Lempa
The team of MBA students arrived on a Tuesday, tired from their overnight flight, but enthused by the energy of being in El Salvador. For our MBA capstone project at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), we had been working on a business plan for a newly formed agricultural cooperative, Xinachtli, based in rural […]
