“We don’t eat”: In a warming world, hunger stalks Guatemala’s Mayan highlands
CASSANDRA GARRISON, of Reuters, reports on the hunger crisis in the Central American nation…
Guatemala’s children bear brunt of prolonged drought and rising heat
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Rising numbers of children in Guatemala are going hungry as drought linked to climate change reduces food harvests, fueling child malnutrition rates in the Central American nation, the United Nations and charities said. Guatemala, which has one of the world’s high rates of child malnutrition, recorded more than 15,300 cases of […]
Central American farmers suffer major crop losses, need food aid – UN
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation More than one million people across Central America need food aid after droughts combined with heavy rains in the past year destroyed harvests, the United Nations said on Thursday. Subsistence farmers along the so-called ‘Dry Corridor’ that runs through Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua lost more than half of their […]
Two million risk hunger after drought in Central America, says UN
Thomson Reuters Foundation Poor harvests caused by drought in parts of Central America could leave more than two million people hungry, the World Food Programme said on Friday, warning climate change was creating drier conditions in the region. Lower than average rainfall in June and July has led to major crop losses for small-scale maize […]