Promote Sustainable Agriculture in El Salvador

Summary

Help over 35,000 residents of 92 rural communities in the Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador establish local, organic agriculture markets for community self-sufficiency and opportunities for income.

What is the issue, problem, or challenge?

Rural communities in El Salvador continue to face the enduring challenges of poverty, flooding disasters, and a lack of infrastructure and basic resources. Through a collaborative partnership, multi-disciplinary graduate students travel to the Bajo Lempa and help communities accomplish self prescribed goals of economic self-sufficiency and poverty alleviation.

How will this project solve this problem?

Promotion of sustainable community farming and establishment of local markets will increase community health through diversified diets, require less use of chemical inputs, and reduce dependence on external market prices and profit controls.

Potential Long Term Impact

Through a continued partnership with Team Monterey, over 92 communities in rural El Salvador will make significant progress against poverty and successfully advance toward sustained economic self-sufficiency and growth.

Project Message

I feel that this (MOU signing) is the only way that we can unite and prosper, in the development of the communities which is something that is greatly needed to progress against the poverty we face.
- Maria Elena, Community Member, Board Member, LC-AM

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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