Biointensive Cultivation for Rural Families in the Dry Corridor

The Central American Dry Corridor is one of most vulnerable regions to the effects of climate change worldwide, which has already meant longer dry periods that intensify when the El Niño phenomenon is present, reducing rainfall by between 40% and 60%, as has happened during 2014 and 2015. All this translates into high levels of food insecurity in rural areas caused by insufficient and unstable food availability, low purchasing power and inadequate food behavior. The rural population have to fill their nutritional deficiencies and improve their family production systems, so that they can better adapt to the changing climate that seriously affects their crops.

The purpose of the project is to improve the availability and quantity of healthy food, promoting innovative techniques for the sustainable intensification of agricultural production for family farmers of three countries in the Central American Dry Corridor.