The U.N. food agency plans to offer food assistance to 700,000 people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
GENEVA (AN) — The World Food Program announced plans to almost quadruple the number of people it aids in four drought-affected nations of Central America, hoping to ease migration pressures among hungry inhabitants.
Five years of drought in Central America have wreaked havoc on farm staples like corn and beans, affecting more than 2 million people in the region and increasing food insecurity among subsistence farmers and their families.
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The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
The U.N. chief calls on all nations to adopt a newer measure for phasing out powerful climate-warming chemicals.
The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, which may have been an overestimate due to the war.
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