The following excerpt is from an May 6, 2010 article published by Relief Web. To read the article in its entirety, please click here.
In the southern highlands of Guatemala people are hungry. Recent prolonged droughts and a drop in remittances due to the worldwide financial crisis have left many families unable to grown or buy food. Guatemala, which has one of the world’s worst rates of chronic malnutrition for children under five (an estimated 47%), is facing a worsening food crisis.
To combat this problem, MADRE and Muixil have expanded Farming for the Future, a food security and microenterprise project for Indigenous Ixil women in El Quiché…
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