Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Food Aid for Drought Zones

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TEGUCIGALPA, Apr 28 2007 (IPS) - The World Food Program will deliver 1,400 tons of food to the people of three Honduran departments that lost their entire crops to drought blamed on the climate phenomenon known as El Niño, say officials. The departments of Valle and Choluteca, in the south, and El Paraíso, in the east, have lost all basic grain crops (maize, rice and beans), and some 8,300 families are living in a critical situation, disaster commissioner Juan Carlos Elvir told Tierramérica.

The WFP will mobilize in the next two weeks with food aid in these areas, where six of every 10 children suffer some degree of malnutrition, according to official figures.