The following excerpt is from a September 29, 2009 article published in the Miami Herald.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. A record-breaking drought in Guatemala — coupled with higher food prices and a drop in remittances — is raising concerns that malnutrition could be spreading in the Central American nation. [...]

The following excerpt is from a September 25, 2009 article published by Relief Web.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. MEXICO CITY, Sep 25, 2009 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — Italy donated 400,000 euros (588,000 U.S. dollars) to Guatemala on Friday to help a food-buying program run by the World Food Program [...]

The following excerpt is from an article published on September 23, 2009, by The World Food Programme.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here.  Wanting to see the impact of hunger with her own eyes, the Grammy award-winning artist recently traveled to Guatemala and met some of the beneficiaries of WFP’s nutrition programmes there. For Aguilera, [...]

The following excerpt is from a September 22, 2009 article published in The Tiawan News.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Taipei, Sept. 22 (CNA) Taiwan will donate US$500,000 in relief aid to Guatemala, one of its allies in Latin America, to help alleviate a food shortage caused by drought, an [...]

This excerpt is from an article published on September 22, 2009 by The HuffingtonPost, and written by Josette Sheeran.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. The perfect storm for the world’s most vulnerable is back — and with a vengeance. Now bad weather and soaring food prices have been joined by [...]

    The following excerpt is from a September 18, 2009 article published by AlertNet.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala is experiencing a worsening food crisis in the so-called dry corridor in the east and northeast of the country. According to the Guatemalan authorities, 91 per cent of children there [...]

The following excerpt is from a September 14, 2009 article published on BBC.com.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. Guatemala has been hit by severe food shortages, with some 54,000 families living in the east of the country facing a critical situation. President Alvaro Colom last week declared a “state of [...]

By Danilo Valladares The following excerpt is from a September 11, 2009 article published by The Inter Press Service News Agency.  To view the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY, Sep 11 (IPS) – The deaths of 25 children from severe malnutrition this year in Guatemala, mainly in the eastern province of [...]

The following excerpt is from a September 12, 2009 article in The Latin American Herald Tribune.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY – The Spanish charity Gaudium Paidos will distribute this weekend two containers of food to poor families in the eastern Guatemalan village of Barranca Seca. The international [...]

The following is an excerpt from a statement released by UN World Food Program Executive Director Josette Sheeran on September 11, 2009.  To read the statement in its entirety, please click here. ROME — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) expresses its deep concern about the hunger situation in Guatemala, following the announcement by [...]

This bulletin is being issued for information only. The President of the Republic of Guatemala has declared a state of public calamity due to the high level of malnutrition caused by the loss of crops caused by irregular rain, dry and hot conditions as well as high food and fuel prices. According to the authorities, [...]

The following excerpt is from a September 10, 2009 article published by The Latin American Herald Tribune.  To read the article in its entirety, please click here. GUATEMALA CITY – The Guatemalan government announced a $40 million plan to alleviate the food crisis that is blamed for 17 deaths from malnutrition. Food Security Secretary Juan [...]

The following excerpt is from an article published on September 9, 2009 by CNN.com.  To view the entire article, please click here. (CNN) — Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has declared a state of national calamity because so many citizens do not have food or proper nutrition. Speaking in a nationally televised address late Tuesday, Colom [...]

This excerpt is from an article published in the August 26, 2009 issue of The Atlantic.  To view the article in its entirety, please click here. At the G8 meeting in Italy last month, the world’s richest countries agreed to devote $20 billion to food security and agricultural development. President Barack Obama declared that the [...]

This is an excerpt from the August 27, 2009 edition of The Economist.  The article can be viewed in its entirety by clicking here. It is hardly one of Latin America’s poorest countries, but according to Unicef almost half of Guatemala’s children are chronically malnourished—the sixth-worst performance in the world. In parts of rural Guatemala, where [...]

By Elizabeth Sagastume and Elio Rujano The following is an excerpt of an article published on August 6, 2009 by The World Food Programme.  To view the article in its entirety, please click here. CHIQUIMULA PROVINCE – Once a month, Marta Garcia and her three children walk 45 minutes to the nearest health clinic from [...]