Over 4 million people in Northern Triangle of Central America require food aid

Tegucigalpa, April 24 (EFE).- More than four million people will need urgent food aid in the dry corridor of the countries that make up the so-called Northern Triangle of Central America - El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras - where the “El Niño” phenomenon, which caused a prolonged drought, ruined the subsistence crops of already vulnerable farming families.

INTERVIEW RECORDED THROUGH ZOOM.

STATEMENTS BY IVÁN LÓPEZ, HUMANITARIAN MANAGER OF OXFAM IN CENTRAL AMERICA:

Unfortunately, the food problem in Central America has been spreading to other urban areas, to other areas far away from the dry corridor or that are not classified as dry corridor, but due to the climate crisis, the amount of population that we are going to find with food insecurity from May onwards is estimated to exceed 4,000,000 people for the dry corridor. That is, approximately 700,000 more people than we found last November. And this has to do with precarious conditions, both in terms of access to productive assets and employment. So we have populations whose average income is quite low, who depend on subsistence agriculture, which is quite susceptible or not very resistant to the impact of the climate. And on the other hand, we have the climate crisis, which makes agricultural production increasingly difficult, especially those without access to irrigation or in areas that have difficulties to have adequate technology, let us say.