Asociación DEL trifinio para EL desarrollo sostenible (ATRIDEST)

Support to ATRIDEST will help address the lack of employment opportunities especially for youth and extreme weather-linked food insecurity in the southwestern department of ocotepeque. ATRIDEST will carry out project activities with 140 farmers in 10 communities to improve production by setting up farm field schools to share sustainable strategies such as integrated pest management drip irrigation and the use of organic inputs. ATRIDEST will also work with community savings and loan organizations (or cracs for their acronym in spanish) to support market-driven production initiatives for their farming and community members with a goal of increasing their productivity and income. ATRIDEST proposes to use a novel approach using field schools as a method for transfer of technology for cracs creating mutual benefits like connecting directly to markets. The project will directly benefit 400 farmers and another 6300 indirectly including their families and members of the 10 communities.