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El Salvador: climate change and environment 13 images Created 3 Jun 2019

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  • Climate change has increased the humidity of the environment to such a degree in Central America that fungal diseases like LA Roya, or leaf rust, and proliferate. Leaf rust dramatically reduces productivity of farms, and has destroyed vast coffee growing areas in the region. If plants recover the coffee cherries grow back very small, like these, and are hardly worth harvesting. This disease has caused a significant crisis across the region that depends economically on income from coffee.
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  • Sebastian Cedillos, agricultural technician at FUNDES, a partner of ACT member LWR, inspects a nursery of cocoa that is being grown to replace coffee plantations affected by leaf rust in Las Marias, Usulután, El Salvador. Leaf rust has destroyed the productivity of coffee plantations and the income of the coffee farmers in the region.
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  • José Alejandro Romero, coffee farmer at Las Marias, Usulután, on his coffee farm. Two years ago he harvested 60 times more than the last two years, because of leaf rust, a fungal disease that has propagated with climate change. Carlos is growing cocoa in this nursery to replace coffee, as cocoa is more resistent to high temperatures and humidity.
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  • Maria del Cid Aguilar, mother of five, community leader and coffee farmer, on her coffee farm in Las Marias, Usulután, El Salvador. Maria explains that leaf rust has destroyed most of her coffee farm, and she is preparing to plant cocoa alongside it, because it is more resistent to the higher temperatures and humidity that have come with climate change. Climate change adaptation is a serious challenge for organisations working in rural areas.
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  • Leaf rust dries out leaves, defoliating the coffee plant and destroying the productive capacity of farms across the Central American region. Leaf rust has proliferated in the hotter and more humid atmosphere brought by climate change.
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  • Migrant children are being repatriated to El Salvador from Mexico and the United States.
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  • At the lagoon of Alegría, Usulután, El Salvador, water levels have dropped dramatically in the drought that is affecting the region. Here, the water has receded hundreds of metres. The effect of climate changes in the central american region are already extreme.
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  • At the lagoon of Alegría, Usulután, El Salvador, water levels have dropped dramatically in the drought that is affecting the region. Here, the water has receded hundreds of metres, a man carries a 'cantaro' of water across the dry lagoon bed. The effect of climate changes in the central american region are already extreme.
    El _Salvador_Hawkey_drought_20140801...jpg
  • At the lagoon of Alegría, Usulután, El Salvador, water levels have dropped dramatically in the drought that is affecting the region. Here, the water has receded hundreds of metres, a man carries a 'cantaro' of water across the dry lagoon bed. The effect of climate changes in the central american region are already extreme.
    El _Salvador_Hawkey_drought_20140801...jpg
  • At the lagoon of Alegría, Usulután, El Salvador, water levels have dropped dramatically in the drought that is affecting the region. Here, the water has receded hundreds of metres, a man walks across the dry lagoon bed. The effect of climate changes in the central american region are already extreme.
    El _Salvador_Hawkey_drought_20140801...jpg
  • Sebastian Cedillos, agricultural technician at FUNDES, a partner of ACT member LWR, inspects a farmers corn field during the current drought. In wide areas across El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, harvests have been completely destroyed by the drought causing enormous hardship for many thousands of poor subsistence farming families. The drought in this area is believed to be an effect of climate change.
    El _Salvador_Hawkey_drought_20140801...jpg
  • In Usulután, El Salvador, Sebastian Cedillos, agricultural technician at FUNDES, a partner of ACT member Lutheran World Relief, inspects a farmer's corn field suffering from the impact of drought. The corn grew initially then dried in a critical period as the corn grains should have developed. The whole crop was lost. Climate change has brought unpredictable and unreliable patterns of rainfall, the rain doesn't come when it's needed, and sometimes six month's of rain come in a week and wash away the topsoil.
    El _Salvador_Hawkey_drought_20140801...jpg
  • Sebastian Cedillos, agricultural technician at FUNDES, a partner of ACT member LWR, inspects a farmers corn field during the current drought. In wide areas across El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua, harvests have been completely destroyed by the drought causing enormous hardship for many thousands of poor subsistence farming families. The drought in this area is believed to be an effect of climate change.
    El _Salvador_Hawkey_drought_20140801...jpg