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🇭🇳Honduras·Drought
Regenerative agriculture to strengthen the adaptation of productive systems to climate change in El Merendón, San Pedro Sula
Youth for Conservation of Honduras (JPC), led since 2025 by APAH, trains young people as environmental promoters to promote sustainable agricultural practices in the face of soil degradation and climate variability. In September 2026, Class XVI received training in regenerative agriculture in El Merendón, including soil conservation, organic fertilizers and natural crop management, to strengthen agricultural resilience to droughts and changes in rainfall.
Measure
Agriculture
Territory
Broadleaf forest and cloud forest
Youth participation
The Association of Environmental Promoters (APAH), founded in 2020 by graduates of Jóvenes para la Conservación Honduras (JPC) and with 230 members, has led the program since 2025. Certified youth leaders guide the participants, who lead local trainings in their communities.
Agroforestry restoration for the protection of water sources in El Merendón, San Pedro Sula
In the face of drought, the Wéndeti project, of the youth organization Cipotes Honduras, promotes reforestation and environmental education in El Merendón, San Pedro Sula, a key area for water in the region. In alliance with Aguas de San Pedro, the young people planted 380 trees with the MIAF model (Milpa Interplanted with Fruit Trees), which combines forest restoration and agricultural production to protect the soil and water sources.
Measure
Ecosystem restoration
Territory
Broadleaf forest and cloud forest
Youth participation
Cipotes Honduras is a youth organization founded in 2021 by a group of friends, which today brings together more than 1,000 young university students and professionals. In Wéndeti, it raises awareness and mobilizes young volunteers who participate in reforestation and environmental education sessions.
Environmental education and community restoration in the face of drought in Manaure, La Guajira
In Manaure, La Guajira, children and adolescents from the Wayuu Pesuapa indigenous community created the collective “La Nación Verde” (Wayuu Environmental Children) to respond to the drought, the loss of water in the jagüeyes and the presence of extractive companies. With the support of the NGO Nación Wayuu, they planted more than 500 trees and carried out waste cleaning, wildlife rescue and environmental training sessions among peers.
Measure
Education
Territory
Guajira–Barranquilla xeric scrubland
Youth participation
Wayuu children and youth founded, named "The Green Nation" and support the collective on their own initiative; They are not beneficiaries of an external program but rather the direct formulators and executors of the measure, with technical support from a local NGO.
Conservation and community restoration of peatlands and wetlands in the face of water scarcity in Chiloé, Chile
In Chiloé, Isla Huillín, a group of young people under 35 years of age, faces drought and water scarcity by protecting and restoring peat bogs and pomponales, key ecosystems for retaining water and habitat of the huillín, a species in danger of extinction. Through participatory monitoring with phototrapping and workshops on the water cycle, it brought together more than 15 neighborhood organizations and rural drinking water committees (APR) and delimited critical sectors for water retention.
Measure
Ecosystem restoration
Territory
Valdivian temperate forests
Youth participation
The group is made up of young people under 35 years of age, who have leadership in the management of educational content, coordination of field campaigns, dissemination on social networks and facilitation of community awareness workshops.
Monitoring and environmental education on glacier retreat to confront drought and water scarcity in Chile
In Chile, the Fundación Glaciares Chilenos, led by young scientists and volunteers, addresses drought and the decline of water reserves. To do this, they created the public platform Latitud Glaciar and promoted education and regulatory advocacy. Among their achievements, they georeferenced 210 glaciers, reached 4.5 million people with scientific dissemination, trained more than 400 students and influenced the legislative debate for the Glacier Protection Law.
Measure
Education
Territory
N/A
Youth participation
Founded in 2017 by siblings Felipe and Constanza Espinosa, who were around 29 and 26 years old at the time, and supported by a mostly young volunteer team. Youth lead research, web design, dissemination on networks and school talks on the cryosphere and climate emergency.
Environmental education and food resilience through food rescue and recycling in Tenango del Valle, State of Mexico
In central Mexico, drought and water stress affect food systems and increase the vulnerability of families with fewer resources. In Tenango del Valle, the SUSANA youth initiative strengthens local food resilience: it rescues food that is about to expire and turns it into food pantries for vulnerable families, with school and community brigades that also recycle PET to finance the operation. In 2025 it will benefit around 1,700 people.
Measure
Education
Territory
Temperate mountain ranges
Youth participation
SUSANA was created by Nally García Medina and is led by young people, who organize school and community brigades to collect PET and food, raise awareness among students about recycling and using food, and set up food pantries for vulnerable families.
Restoration of native highland forests (Polylepis australis) as a strategy for adaptation to drought and protection of hydrological basins in the mountains of Córdoba, Argentina
In the mountains of Córdoba (Argentina), the loss of high-altitude native tabaquillo (Polylepis australis) forests degraded the basins that supply water to 80% of the provincial population. Bosques de Agua, a project led by youth, reforests and restores these forests in the Pampa de Achala Water Reserve to recover soil water regulation in the face of increasingly extreme and frequent droughts. He has already planted 450,000 tabaquillos and incorporated 209 hectares into a nature reserve.
Measure
Water
Territory
Dry Chaco
Youth participation
The initiative was created in 2021 by Juan Manuel Martín (32 years old) and Juan Pablo Moretto (29 years old) and a large part of the more than 700 volunteers who participated in planting and nursery days are young people and students who individually joined the organization's open calls.
