Small-scale fishers in El Salvador's Dry Corridor diversify their livelihoods with support from FAO
Channel: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Date: 29/03/2022

Central America’s Dry Corridor runs through Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. This vast strip of territory is very vulnerable to extreme weather events. 
Long periods of drought followed by intense rains affect the livelihoods and food security of its 10 million inhabitants, most of whom depend on agriculture.
80% of the small producers in the Dry Corridor live in poverty and most see migration as the only way to improve their future.
In El Salvador’s Dry Corridor, FAO works with small-scale farmers and fishers to help them find new opportunities by diversifying their livelihoods.
Almejas del Pacífico is a cooperative, made up of women and men from El Cantón El Porfiado. They used to focus on fishing but with the support and training they received from FAO, they now also raise chickens.
On El Cordoncillo Island, the women and men of the El Cordoncillo de Fátima fishers’ cooperative have also improved their livelihoods and food security with the help of FAO.
These women and men from El Salvador are turning the Dry Corridor into a land of opportunities.

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