Sustainable Family Farms works in four Central American countries to reduce poverty and deforestation by training farmers in sustainable agricultural practices like family gardens, reforestation, composting, and crop diversity as alternatives to slash-and-burn farming, helping restore forests and nourish communities while improving incomes through improved technologies like stoves and biodigestors.

1. Sustainable Family Farms Reducing Poverty and Deforestation in Central America

2. Tropical forests

4. Slash – And – Burn Farming

6. Field Trainers

7. SHI currently works in four countries: Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua & Panama We work in southern Belize, Toledo district SHI works in two districts of northern Honduras We work on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua We work in two districts of Panama

10. Family Gardens

11. Reforestation and Agroforestry

12. Biodiversity and Economic Diversity

13. Healthy Soils Composting and bocashi Worm composting

15. Erosion barriers and natural pest control

16. Improved Income

17. Improved Stoves

18. Biodigestors

20. Planting Hope Restoring Forests Nourishing Communities