Almost 3 Million Affected by Drought in Central America

[Judi Lynn]

Almost 3 Million Affected by Drought in Central America
Published 15 January 2016

The United Nations will begin to roll out its Humanitarian Response Plan to help people in drastic need of food, health care, water and sanitation.


Over 2.8 million people have been drastically affected by drought in the Central American corridor of Honduras and Guatemala and are in drastic need of humanitarian aid, the United Nations reported Friday.

The U.N. said they will begin to roll out their Humanitarian Response Plan that will work with the governments of the two nations through its Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs or OCHA.

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According to OCHA, people urgently “need food assistance, health care, water and sanitation, nutrition, recovery of livelihoods and capacity building to address these phenomena.”

This is the second year in a row that Central America has experienced major drought and crop losses. Last year's drought caused several governments in the region to declare a state of emergency for the catastrophic effects the weather left on their countries' food production abilities.

More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Almost-3-Million-Affected-by-Drought-in-Central-America-20160115-0029.html

Environment & Energy:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112795921

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1. A sizable percentage, considering their combined population is just 45 million.

The equivalent of having 20 million in the U.S. affected by severe drought - which as it turns out we are, except that Central America lacks the infrastructure and resources to deal with this in a meaningful way.