As part of our commitment to Participatory Action Research, the ARLG invests in developing long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with organizations, networks, companies, and institutions. Below, you'll find links to our past and current collaborators, representing work related to agroecology, rural livelihoods, agro-food systems, ecosystem services, political ecology, and participatory action research.

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  Advising and Interdiscipinary Research for Local Development and Conservation (ASINDEC), is a non-profit research foundation that supprots livelihood and conseravtion processes with ACOES in Tacuba, El Salvador, utilizing a participatory research approach.

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  Association of Organic Coffee Producers of Western El Salvador (ACOES) is an association comprised of 25 shade coffee farming families from the La Concordia and El Sincuyo cooperatives located in Tacuba, El Salvador. These coffee plantations are certified organic, in the process of becoming Fair Trade certified and are part of the buffer zone of El Imposible National Park, one of the most important protected areas of El Salvador.

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  The Community Agroecology Network (CAN) is a U.S. based non-profit organization whose mission is to develop a network of rural communities and U.S. consumers to support self-sufficiency and sustainable farming practices. Can is based in Santa Cruz, California.

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  Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) is a progressive coffee roaster that actively funds projects to support the livelihoods of coffee producers through its Partnering with Supply-Chain Communities program. Since 2008, the ARLG has been collaborating with GMCR. See the Partnership with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters page for more information.