Guatemala City, Guatemala ¡ª The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), with the support of the American people through the United States Department of Agriculture¡¯s (USDA) Food for Peace Program, has received a new shipment of food commodities to support communities facing food insecurity in Guatemala, exacerbated by the effects of the El Ni?o phenomenon.
GUATEMALA CITY ¨C At the end of a five-day visit to Guatemala, Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan called for increased inclusion of women in development action, including in in micro-finance and agricultural trade and production. Princess Sarah noted how this increases their impact, with improved nutrition and a better quality of life for their families.
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 The visit to Central America by Â鶹ÊÓƵ Executive Director, David Beasley renews Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s commitment to working with vulnerable communities, offering them sustainable livelihoods and food security in their villages, giving them reasons to stay at home and reducing migration. During his visit Beasley met families affected by climate change coupled with job losses and rising inequality, a fallout of COVID-19.
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.
The United Nations calls for the targeting of new policies and investments in the lagging territories of Latin America and the Caribbean.
December 2, 2020, Santiago de Chile - A new United Nations report shows the territorial inequality of malnutrition in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.
ROME ¨C Millions of people in Central America urgently need food assistance in the wake of Hurricane Eta, one of the worst storms in decades, as fears grow of another storm brewing in the coming days.
GUATEMALA CITY ¨C Undernutrition, overweight and obesity cost Guatemala US$12 billion in 2018 amounting to a significant 16.3 percent of the country¡¯s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to a report released today by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Resources lost to malnutrition take away from hard won development gains.
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.
