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FAO: 1.4 million people within Central American Dry Corridor face foods assistance need
01.05.2019 19:23 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of last week, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) warned that prolonged droughts and heavy rain had destroyed more than half of the maize and bean crops of the subsistence farmers along the Central American Dry Corridor, leaving them without foods’ reserves and affecting their foods’ security, FAO reports.
It is to be admitted, earlier, the Central American governments estimated that 2.2 million people had suffered crop losses, mainly due to the drought. Simultaneously, emergency foods’ security assessments carried out within the Dry Corridor by WFP, FAO and the governments within the last quarter of 2018 validated these findings and confirmed that 1.4 million people out of the 2.2 million urgently need foods’ assistance.
That is why, for 2019, FAO and WFP are requesting US$72 million from the international community to provide foods’ assistance to over 700,000 people within the Dry Corridor.
These funds will also help to create and restore productive assets, diversify the subsistence farmers’ source of income, establish social protection safety nets and strengthen the farmers’ resilience within the face of future climate-related events.
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