IFAD / EL SALVADOR MIGRATION
26-Jan-2022
00:04:21
In Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, governments are looking at ways to halt migration and encourage young people to stay in their home countries, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). In El Salvador, a rural development programme is having positive results, encouraging young people to take up careers in agriculture. IFAD
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STORY: IFAD / EL SALVADOR MIGRATION
TRT: 4:21
SOURCE: IFAD
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 DECEMBER 2021 MORAZAN, EL SALVADOR AND 25 JANUARY 2022, PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
TRT: 4:21
SOURCE: IFAD
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 10 DECEMBER 2021 MORAZAN, EL SALVADOR AND 25 JANUARY 2022, PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
SHOTLIST
10 DECEMBER 2021, MORAZAN, EL SALVADOR
1. Wide shot, Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, hydroponics greenhouse
2. Close up, tomatoes
3. Mid shot, Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, tomatoes
4. Various shots, young people, exterior
5. Various shots, cyclist, fields
6. Aerial shot, field
25 JANUARY 2022, PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Diego Ruiz Cumplido, IFAD Head of Latin America and Caribbean Hub:
“Emigration is one of the biggest issues of El Salvador, mainly affects youth, particularly the youth that is looking for new opportunities, a better income, especially by migrating to the United States. This also has many consequences, obviously at a personal level, fragmentation of families and also, in the rural municipalities that have a higher index of migration, a level of depopulation which leads to a lack of rural youth in these territories.”
10 DECEMBER 2021, MORAZAN, EL SALVADOR
8. Close up, young man sharpening knife
9. Various shots, young man cutting banana leaves
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, Hydroponics Farmer:
“There have been young people who try to work here, in rural areas, to work the farmlands like everybody, like their parents, like our grandparents. And earlier, in our childhood, our grandparents used to harvest in the open field a myriad of greens and vegetables with little money because the land used to be more fertile. But now with climate change land produces less. Therefore, young people feel more disappointed, and this is when young people look for the opportunity of the American dream.”
11. Aerial shot, Hydroponics greenhouses.
12. Various shots, Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, plants, soil arrangement, greenhouse
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, Hydroponics Farmer:
“With hydroponics, we have several advantages: better pest control, planting quality seed, and high spec varieties.”
14. Various shots, Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, greenhouse, exterior
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, Hydroponics Farmer:
“Above all, give young people an opportunity, open doors to young people, because when young people are given the opportunity, they already put aside the thought of wanting to emigrate to other countries.”
16. Various shots, Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, husband, two children, exterior
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, Hydroponics Farmer:
“In five or ten years, my children will be 15. I hope that they will like agriculture. They already do. Since they were very little, they have learned that they can make a career of it, I hope they will learn more about hydroponics.”
18. Aerial shot, Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, two children, Hydroponics greenhouses
1. Wide shot, Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, hydroponics greenhouse
2. Close up, tomatoes
3. Mid shot, Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, tomatoes
4. Various shots, young people, exterior
5. Various shots, cyclist, fields
6. Aerial shot, field
25 JANUARY 2022, PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Diego Ruiz Cumplido, IFAD Head of Latin America and Caribbean Hub:
“Emigration is one of the biggest issues of El Salvador, mainly affects youth, particularly the youth that is looking for new opportunities, a better income, especially by migrating to the United States. This also has many consequences, obviously at a personal level, fragmentation of families and also, in the rural municipalities that have a higher index of migration, a level of depopulation which leads to a lack of rural youth in these territories.”
10 DECEMBER 2021, MORAZAN, EL SALVADOR
8. Close up, young man sharpening knife
9. Various shots, young man cutting banana leaves
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, Hydroponics Farmer:
“There have been young people who try to work here, in rural areas, to work the farmlands like everybody, like their parents, like our grandparents. And earlier, in our childhood, our grandparents used to harvest in the open field a myriad of greens and vegetables with little money because the land used to be more fertile. But now with climate change land produces less. Therefore, young people feel more disappointed, and this is when young people look for the opportunity of the American dream.”
11. Aerial shot, Hydroponics greenhouses.
12. Various shots, Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, plants, soil arrangement, greenhouse
13. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, Hydroponics Farmer:
“With hydroponics, we have several advantages: better pest control, planting quality seed, and high spec varieties.”
14. Various shots, Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, greenhouse, exterior
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, Hydroponics Farmer:
“Above all, give young people an opportunity, open doors to young people, because when young people are given the opportunity, they already put aside the thought of wanting to emigrate to other countries.”
16. Various shots, Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, husband, two children, exterior
17. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, Hydroponics Farmer:
“In five or ten years, my children will be 15. I hope that they will like agriculture. They already do. Since they were very little, they have learned that they can make a career of it, I hope they will learn more about hydroponics.”
18. Aerial shot, Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, two children, Hydroponics greenhouses
STORYLINE
In Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, governments are looking at ways to halt migration and encourage young people to stay in their home countries, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). In El Salvador, a rural development programme is having positive results, encouraging young people to take up careers in agriculture.
With 50 percent of young people in El Salvador unemployed, the choices facing them are stark: to not earn at all, turn to crime to make a living, or leave the country in search of work.
Every year around 50,000 Salvadorians immigrate to the United States.
Juan Diego Ruiz Cumplido, IFAD Head of Latin America and Caribbean Hub, said emigration is one of the main issues of El Salvador, “mainly affects youth, particularly the youth that is looking for new opportunities.”
He added: “This also has many consequences, obviously at a personal level, fragmentation of families and also, in the rural municipalities that have a higher index of migration, a level of depopulation which leads to a lack of rural youth in these territories.”
Climate change has added a new dimension to the problem. Some people who previously considered working on family farms now choose to leave because of the difficulties of growing crops with unpredictable weather. “This is when young people look for the opportunity of the American dream” explained Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, a hydroponics farmer.
Iris, though, is more than happy to stay in her hometown of Morazan, El Salvador. She now runs a thriving business growing vegetables using a modern system of farming called hydroponics. This farming technique grows crops in greenhouses. Instead of using soil, the plants are grown in rocks or coco coir fiber and fed a solution containing a perfected mix of micro-nutrients. Using this method has doubled her production. She used to only be able to grow and sell vegetables for less than half of the year. She can now produce them all year round.
Iris received training in hydroponics from a rural development project which is working to provide more than 200,000 young people in the region with training in new agricultural practices and help with buying equipment so that they can set up successful agricultural businesses.
Funded by IFAD and the Government of El Salvador, the project has given many young people a reason to stay in El Salvador rather than emigrate.
With two children and another on the way, Iris is confident her children will follow her into the family business in El Salvador.
With 50 percent of young people in El Salvador unemployed, the choices facing them are stark: to not earn at all, turn to crime to make a living, or leave the country in search of work.
Every year around 50,000 Salvadorians immigrate to the United States.
Juan Diego Ruiz Cumplido, IFAD Head of Latin America and Caribbean Hub, said emigration is one of the main issues of El Salvador, “mainly affects youth, particularly the youth that is looking for new opportunities.”
He added: “This also has many consequences, obviously at a personal level, fragmentation of families and also, in the rural municipalities that have a higher index of migration, a level of depopulation which leads to a lack of rural youth in these territories.”
Climate change has added a new dimension to the problem. Some people who previously considered working on family farms now choose to leave because of the difficulties of growing crops with unpredictable weather. “This is when young people look for the opportunity of the American dream” explained Iris Maribel Alberto Laínez, a hydroponics farmer.
Iris, though, is more than happy to stay in her hometown of Morazan, El Salvador. She now runs a thriving business growing vegetables using a modern system of farming called hydroponics. This farming technique grows crops in greenhouses. Instead of using soil, the plants are grown in rocks or coco coir fiber and fed a solution containing a perfected mix of micro-nutrients. Using this method has doubled her production. She used to only be able to grow and sell vegetables for less than half of the year. She can now produce them all year round.
Iris received training in hydroponics from a rural development project which is working to provide more than 200,000 young people in the region with training in new agricultural practices and help with buying equipment so that they can set up successful agricultural businesses.
Funded by IFAD and the Government of El Salvador, the project has given many young people a reason to stay in El Salvador rather than emigrate.
With two children and another on the way, Iris is confident her children will follow her into the family business in El Salvador.
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