Around 2.8 million people need food aid in drought-hit Central America
Source: Reuters - AlertNet
Country: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
Prolonged dry spells since mid-2014, linked to the El Niño weather phenomenon, have battered subsistence farmers in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
Prolonged dry spells since mid-2014, linked to the El Niño weather phenomenon, have battered subsistence farmers
By Anastasia Moloney
BOGOTA, May 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Around 2.8 million people in three Central American countries need food aid after two consecutive years of severe drought decimated crops and exacerbated hunger among the poor, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said.
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