Informes

By Rosa del Carmen Aguilar World Vision Honduras is now working on a new food security strategy to address the many factors which have contributed to severe drought in the region this year. World Vision's new food security strategy consists…

by Rosa del Carmen Aguilar HONDURAS - 600 families supported by World Vision United States have high hopes for the last harvest of the year, despite this year's crop failures due to ongoing drought in the Choluteca Department, in the…

AKRON, Pa. -- As drought threatens 1.5 million people in Central America, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is responding with emergency food aid in Honduras and Nicaragua. Some 700,000 people have lost at least half of their crops across the…

Wake up and smell the coffee crisis, by Dan O'Neil [Editor's Note: The following op-ed appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, Washington) on Saturday, September 8, 2001.] Coffee, java, a cup of joe - whatever you choose to call it -…

Field Representative Judith de Zelaya Reflects on Hurricane Rehabilitation EffortsTegucigalpa - Honduras is one of the four poorest countries in the Americas. Its problems reflect those of a poor developing country: underdeveloped infrastructure, dependence on subsistence…

Tegucigalpa, 6 de septiembre de 2001.- El Presidente del Banco Centroamericano de Integración Económica (BCIE), Pablo Schneider, entregó hoy al Ministro de Agricultura y Ganadería de Honduras, Guillermo Alvarado Downing, 2 millones 340 mil lempiras (150 mil dólares) en cooperación…

Honduras was the country most affected by Hurricane 'Mitch' in 1998, and some 250 000 people were still receiving food aid until June this year, when the country was hit by drought. The onset of dry spells in June…

"Families and children are asking for food. They come to the churches, especially in places like Choluteca. They remember International Aid and Vida Abundante Church partnered to help them after Hurricane Mitch. Now they need our help again." Judith de…

2,000 Subsistence Farmers to Receive Seeds, Fertilizer and Expert Agricultural Assistance WASHINGTON, August 30, 2001 - Subsistence farmers in southern Honduras, who rely on a few acres of corn, beans and other crops for food, have lost up to…