- Using agricultural economics to strengthen
nongovernmental organizations' food security programs for people
living with HIV/AIDS: an example from Honduras.
"The impulse to action is strong but does not guarantee success."--Barrett "In 2002, twenty years into the pandemic, HIV/AIDS initiatives remain stuck at this NGO-style, medicalised, level of activity."--de Waal For nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) committed to partnering with people in the developing world to improve the lives of the poor ......
- UN FOOD FOR CHILDREN EXTENDED.
The United Nations World Food Program said it was extending until February an emergency program set up in May to feed thousands of Guatemalan children and their families left starving by drought and rising rural unemployment, reports Reuters (Sept. 12, 2002): Zoraida Mesa, WFP head for Latin America and the ......
- Unnatural disasters
On October 27, 1998, Hurricane Mitch slammed into the Caribbean coast of Central America. UN officials have classified Mitch as the worst natural disaster to hit the region this century. In Honduras alone, over 14,000 lives, billions of dollars worth of crops, and 45 years of infrastructural development perished in ......
- REGION: RURAL HUNGER PERSISTS IN WAKE OF EL
NINO'S ADVERSE EFFECTS ON HARVESTS.
Over the past year, the rural poor of four Central American countries--Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador--suffered marked increases in malnutrition. In 2001, an adverse climactic phenomenon known as El Nino destroyed agricultural harvests throughout the region, bringing about an increase in malnutrition. Low international commodity prices, especially for coffee, ......
- MILLIONS SUFFERING IN CENTRAL AMERICA DROUGHT
CORRIDOR.
About 8.6 million people living in rural areas in the Pacific Coast regions of Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and in west-central Honduras, are suffering from hunger and malnutrition as a result of recent droughts, according to a report released in San Jose, Costa Rica, last week. The UN World ......
- Certified sustainable coffee.
From a distance, it looks like a gaggle of birdwatchers enjoying El Salvador's avian splendor. The group is walking along what appears to be a path in a park, peering into the treetops and poking into bushes. It's an agronomist, a biologist and a former banker guided by three farmers ......
- REGION: CHILD LABOR & PROSTITUTION PLAGUE CENTRAL
AMERICA.
Several recent reports indicate that laws protecting children in Central America are poorly enforced. The region is not only plagued with high rates of child labor but also child prostitution and trafficking in children. The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that, in all of Latin America and the Caribbean, 20 ......
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