Agroforestry for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (ABES) Project 

DESCRIPTION: This project aims to contribute to restoration and conservation of hillside ecosystems of El Salvador by adapting and disseminating agroforestry based production systems as climate-smart, eco-efficient agricultural options. The purpose of this project is to assess the potential for slash and mulch agroforestry systems to increase farm productivity, profitability, and capacity to adapt to climate change and impact landscape biodiversity and other ecosystem services through a combination of on-farm field studies, landscape inventories and remote sensing analysis in a mountain agricultural region in north-central El Salvador.

OUTCOMES: Enhance biodiversity conservation and other multiple ecosystem services at plot and landscape scales through a widespread application of sustainable agriculture in farming communities for sub-humid hillside areas of El Salvador.