Manzanillo, Costa Rica: A Women-Led Mangrove Plantation Aids in Combatting the Effects of Climate Change

The document details the efforts of community leader Ana Cecilia Solís Ugalde and the MUDECOOP cooperative in Manzanillo, Puntarenas, to combat climate change through the creation of the area's first covered mangrove nursery. The project aims to establish natural barriers against tidal waves and flooding, which threaten a community where 80% of residents live in mangrove areas. Beyond reforestation, the initiative addresses food insecurity via a communal dining room for children during fishing moratoriums and droughts, and promotes community tourism as an alternative income source to offset the loss of artisanal fishing revenue.

• The community of Manzanillo faces severe climate vulnerability because over 80% of its residents live within mangrove areas, leaving them exposed to sea level rise, flooding, and tidal waves, while legal restrictions on state-owned maritime-terrestrial zones hinder economic development and housing alternatives.
• Mangrove forests in Costa Rica have declined since the early 1990s, increasing the susceptibility of coastal communities to loss and damage from heavy rains and droughts.
• The MUDECOOP project, led by Ana Cecilia Solís Ugalde and a women's cooperative, has planted over 4,000 mangroves to create natural barriers against tidal waves and provide an alternative economic activity through community tourism.
• To combat food insecurity caused by droughts and the fishing moratorium in the Gulf of Nicoya, the mangrove nursery operates a communal dining room providing one daily meal to 100 children on weekends.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2023). Manzanillo, Costa Rica: A Women-Led Mangrove Plantation Aids in Combatting the Effects of Climate Change. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/manzanillo-costa-rica-a-women-led-mangrove-plantation-aids-in-combatting-the-effects-of-climate-change/

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. Manzanillo, Costa Rica: A Women-Led Mangrove Plantation Aids in Combatting the Effects of Climate Change. 2023. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/manzanillo-costa-rica-a-women-led-mangrove-plantation-aids-in-combatting-the-effects-of-climate-change/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalresiliencepartnership2023manzanillo, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{Manzanillo, Costa Rica: A Women-Led Mangrove Plantation Aids in Combatting the Effects of Climate Change}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2023}, month = jul, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/manzanillo-costa-rica-a-women-led-mangrove-plantation-aids-in-combatting-the-effects-of-climate-change/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }