El Nino Triggers Central America Food Crisis
Oxfam reports that the El Nino weather phenomenon has devastated crops across Central America's Dry Corridor. Over seventy thousand farming households face severe food shortages and water supply reductions following extreme drought.
Corn harvests across Central America's Dry Corridor collapsed following an intense El Niño drought, leaving over 70,000 farming households facing severe food shortages, according to an Oxfam report published late Monday. The drought-stricken territory spans across parts of Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, where subsistence farmers rely heavily on staple crops. The disaster compounds economic pressures in the region, triggering thousands of migration movements in the months leading up to the joint assessment by aid groups.
