RECLIMA: A chance to change lives in the Dry Corridor of El Salvador11.02.2020Scroll down to read the Spanish version El Salvador is part of the mountainous “Central American Dry Corridor” and is considered one of the most vulnerable countries to climate risks in the world. Increases in precipitation variability, temperature and the occurrence of extreme events such as droughts threaten the food security and livelihoods of family farmers, largely due to deforestation, land degradation, and land deepening climatic events. The term Dry Corridor, although referred to a climatic phenomenon, has an ecological basis and defines a group of ecosystems in the eco-region of dry tropical forests in Central America covering the lowlands of the Pacific coastal area, and most of central pre-mountain region of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guanacaste in Costa Rica and Panama’s Arco Seco area. It is expected that in the coming years the increase in temperatures will reduce the yields of the main crops of the country, mainly through recurrent droughts, due to the increasingly erratic and unpredictable seasonal rainfall patterns. In contrast to this, during the years of more intense rains, tropical storms often have devastating effects on the environment and agricultural production. This frequency and intensity of droughts and floods in El Salvador has increased in recent years due to climate change. In response to this situation, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations El Salvador, in coordination with the Government of El Salvador and the Environmental Investment Fund of El Salvador, has initiated the implementation of the project "Increase of the Climate Resilience Measures in the Agroecosystems of the Dry Corridor of El Salvador” (RECLIMA). The project seeks to improve the resilience of family farmers vulnerable to climate change through comprehensive actions for the recovery of degraded landscapes in 114 municipalities of El Salvador. RECLIMA is implemented with the financial cooperation of the Green Climate Fund (FVC), the main global fund to finance actions to combat climate change, which allocated US $ 35.8 million in order to build resilience to climate change in agricultural systems in the Dry Corridor of El Salvador. In addition to the donation of the FVC, the project is complemented by USD 78 million from the Salvadorian Government for technical assistance and agricultural inputs and USD 13.8 million from the El Salvador Environmental Investment Fund (FIAES), making a total investment of USD 127.7 million. Local governments, community organizations, producers and organizations of indigenous peoples also participate in the implementation of RECLIMA. The project, which lasts for five years, will strengthen the resilience of small producers that are often at the forefront of the impact of climate change, through the promotion of climate adaptation measures, such as sustainable farming practices adapted to the weather. RECLIMA will:
The main actions of RECLIMA are:
To FAO it is a priority to carry out coordinated work with public institutions, local governments, producers and producer organizations, cooperatives, civil society and the private sector to build resilience and a paradigm shift in the economic, social and environmental development of agricultural families vulnerable to climate change for a Zero Hunger El Salvador. News from FAO El Salvador Photo credit: FAO El Salvador - Corredor seco El Salvador / Familia Agricola de El Salvador RECLIMA: Una apuesta para cambiar vidas en el Corredor Seco de El Salvador El Salvador forma parte del montañoso “Corredor Seco Centroamericano” y es considerado como uno de los países más vulnerables a los riesgos climáticos en el mundo. Aumentos en la variabilidad de la precipitación, la temperatura y la ocurrencia de eventos extremos como sequías amenazan la seguridad alimentaria y medios de subsistencia de los agricultores familiares, esto en gran medida por la deforestaron, la degradación de las tierras, y la profundización de los fenómenos climáticos.
Entre las principales acciones que ejecutará RECLIMA destacan:
Para la FAO, es una prioridad realizar un trabajo coordinado con instituciones públicas, gobiernos locales, organizaciones de productores y productoras, cooperativas, sociedad civil y sector privado para generar resiliencia y un cambio de paradigma en el desarrollo económico, social y ambiental de las familias agricultoras vulnerables al cambio climático para un El Salvador Hambre Cero. Autor de la foto: FAO El Salvador - Corredor seco El Salvador / Familia Agricola de El Salvador |
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