The El Niño climate event is having a devastating impact on
agriculture in Central America’s Dry Corridor where one of the worst droughts
in decades has left 3.5 million people food insecure, reports NaijaAgroNet.
In the most affected countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and
Honduras some, NaijaAgroNet gathered that some 2.8 million people are dependent
on food aid.
NaijaAgroNet recalls that the Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and
World Food Programme (WFP) at the end of June organized a high-level meeting in
Rome, to focus on the urgent need for long-term action to address the impact of
El Niño, including building resilience for food security and nutrition for the
most vulnerable populations in the affected countries.
El Niño and its counterpart La Niña occur cyclically, but in
recent years, mainly due to the effects of global climate change, extreme
weather events associated with these phenomena, such as droughts and floods,
have increased in frequency and severity.
This situation, NaijaAgroNet report, is also putting at risk
the livelihoods of millions of small-scale family farmers in the Dry Corridor,
many of whom are heavily dependent on subsistence agriculture.
The aim of the high-level meeting is to increase awareness
of, and the response to, this protracted and recurrent crisis, and to mobilize
the international community to support the efforts of governments, UN agencies
and other partners.
Isaac Oyimah/GEE
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