New York, Sep 21 2010 3:10PM
Some 330,000 Guatemalans will need food aid over the coming months, just to be able to subsist, according to a new United Nations study.
"It is a challenge for the country and the international community that we must confront," UN World Food Programme (<"http://www.wfp.org/">WFP) representative Willem van Milink said yesterday of the small Central American nation, which has recently been swept by torrential rains, floods, deadly landslides and a volcanic eruption.
The study, carried out in August by the WFP, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (<"http://www.fao.org/">FAO) and the UN Children's Fund (<"http://www.unicef.org/">UNICEF) together with Government and non-governmental organization (NGO) partners, found that 235,000 people need emergency food aid and a further 95,000, who are engaged in subsistence agriculture, require supplementary food aid.
Earlier this year Tropical Storm Agatha left a swath of destruction across the country, particularly in road communications, infrastructure, food security and livelihoods. The crisis was compounded by the eruption of Pacaya volcano.
Sep 21 2010 3:10PM
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