The Family Agriculture Plan (PAF) is a new act that was implemented in 2011 by the Ministry of Agriculture that aims to reduce rural poverty and increase agricultural production in order to revitalize the economy in the countryside. With four main components to the plan, the government hopes to improve the livelihoods of about 2…
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GMOs coming soon to a farm near you?
Staring in the face of nearly $300 million dollars in losses in the agricultural sector due to the rains of October, the Salvadoran government is considering trials of genetically modified crops. Some people believe this to be the magic bullet for the struggling agriculture industry in the country. Corn, beans, rice, sugarcane, and coffee are…
Farming Cooperatives
The United Nations has declared that next year, 2012, will be the International Year of Cooperatives; since 1992, the first Saturday in July has been the International Day of Cooperatives. Worldwide, cooperatives directly employ over 100 million people, according to the UN. A cooperative is a business owned by a group of individuals, and the…
Growing Local Food Demand
Local food in El Salvador? It certainly exists, even though farmers markets, CSAs and advocates don’t abound in this country. Driving northwest towards Santa Ana, the highway is lined with roadside farmstands selling the latest harvest: jocotes (known also as hog plums), as well as bananas and plantains, oranges, and maybe bags of loroco and…
El Salvador’s Agriculture & Food Policy
More than you ever thought you wanted to know about El Salvador’s agriculture and food: El Salvador…that little heard about country in Central America, the only one with no Caribbean coastline, the one that everyone says is the size of Massachusetts. It is smooshed next to Honduras, below Guatemala and has, not surprisingly, a tropical…
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