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For generations, poor people around the world have left their homes to seek better wages abroad. Today, the money they send home totals an estimated US$200 billion a year. In Latin America, remittances are worth more than direct foreign investment, official development assistance and foreign aid combined. They have a huge potential to reduce rural poverty. With this in mind, IFAD is exploring ways to lower the transaction costs of sending money home and is working with governments to make sure the money is used productively.

No one is better qualified to report on children’s issues than children themselves. This was the idea behind the UNICEF-supported ‘mini-reporters’ news show in El Salvador, a pilot created to showcase children’s points of view on issues they face.

Hace 20 años que no ponía un pie en El Salvador, y en algunas cosas, hoy, me parece otro país.

En aquel entonces el país vivía la etapa final de una guerra interna y devastadora.

Four vulnerable communities in El Salvador are adapting to the realities of climate change and planting seeds for a more sustainable future.

The Ciudad Barrios Cooperative, in the Cacahuatique mountains of eastern El Salvador, was founded in the late 1970’s and boasts more than 1000 participating members. The cooperative produces approximately 8.5 million pounds of coffee annually. Until 2003, all their coffee was sold as low-priced, generic coffee.