Photo of vetiver via Canva Pro. This story was originally published on Climate Tracker as a part of its Citizen Climate Journalism Fellowship, in partnership with The Cropper Foundation. An edited version is republished here with permission. At first glance, vetiver may look like any wild grass growing at the side of the road in Trinidad and Tobago. Deep within its elongated roots, however, lies one of the greatest, cheapest, and most eco-friendly solutions to flooding, landslides, slope stabilisation and erosion control; yet, it has been a neglected preventative measure to the threats imposed…