SHARM EL-SHEIKH ¨C The Partnership for Central America (PCA), the World Bank (WB), and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) launched today the ¡°Disaster Risk Insurance and Finance in Central America Consortium¡± (DRIFCA) to identify and support climate-related agricultural insurance solutions for up to 2 million smallholder farmers in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to increase their food security and financial resilience. The U.S. Agency for International Development has provided support for regional feasibility studies to be undertaken by the World Bank.
ROME ¨C Hunger in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua has increased almost fourfold over the past two years - from 2.2 million people in 2018 to close to 8 million people in 2021 ¨C a result of the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 and years of extreme climate events. Of this figure, 1.7 million people are in the ¡®Emergency¡¯ category of food insecurity and require urgent food assistance.
SAN SALVADOR - Damage caused by Tropical Storm Amanda which lashed El Salvador is compounding the socioeconomic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and is set to increase the number of food insecure people in El Salvador, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
PANAMA CITY ¨C The socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean could potentially leave around 14 million* vulnerable people in severe food insecurity this year, warranting urgent attention to save lives, according to projections by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
April 25th, 2019, Panama City. ¨C The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that prolonged droughts and heavy rain have destroyed more than half of the maize and bean crops of the subsistence farmers along the Central American Dry Corridor, leaving them without food reserves and affecting their food security.
