Nicaragua Archives

Coffee tree with unripe yellow buds on plantation at sunset with mountains and fog in distance

The global challenge of adapting coffee to a changing climate

Feature / Climate change is taking a toll on coffee production not just in Brazil, but globally. Ensuring a steady supply will require more help for individual farmers.

15 December 2021 / About Adaptation, Finance, Food and agriculture and Mitigation

“Yes to Peace”? Environmental peacemaking and transboundary conservation in Central America

Journal article / Read how environmental issues can provide arguments for maintaining or even strengthening conflicts rather than fostering peace between states.

22 May 2015 / About Ecosystems, Geopolitics and Land use

Building a bioregion through transboundary conservation in Central America

Journal article / Proponents of transboundary conservation argue for a bioregional scale of governance. How such rescaling should be done remains an undiscussed issue.

29 October 2015 / About Ecosystems and Public policy

Two women farming in a drought-stricken field.

Gendered experiences of adaptation to drought: patterns of change in El Sauce, Nicaragua

Journal article / Vulnerability is highly diverse and locally specific. This analysis is based on a qualitative case study in a drought-stricken part of northwest Nicaragua.

22 December 2017 / About Adaptation and Disaster Risk