Social Resilience

Building social resilience is part of every Ridge to Reefs project. People impact the landscape and the land supports the people. Each project is developed in collaboration with local communities, targeting the areas of greatest need and highest impact. Projects are designed to be sustainable by the communities for the long-term.

Supporting sustainable agricultural practices helps reduce the impacts of landscape use which provides benefits for the surrounding ecosystems and improves food security for communities.

By restoring ecosystems, those natural systems provide benefits to people in terms of food security, clean water, and income opportunities from agriculture and tourism.

By building renewable energy sources, fewer fossil fuels are consumed and communities are more resilient and better able to support themselves and recover from natural disasters.

By reducing pollution, communities have safer drinking water and healthier fish and animal populations.

Each of these action areas are connected and entwined with social resilience. Ridge to Reefs works to advance environmentally sustainable community growth and builds community capacity to handle natural disasters in concert with supporting ecosystem health and recovery.