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OCCRP
February 7, 2018
Nestle announced on Tuesday that it will no longer purchase palm oil from a Guatemalan company that faces corruption allegations from the Central American state's prosecutor. 1024px-Forest in Tikal Guatemala Tikal forest, Guatemala. Palm oil plantations have disrupted ecosystems in places like this atÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
January 31, 2018
Guatemala is among the ten biggest coffee producers globally. Up until recently, nearly all its coffee was exported to other countres, mainly to North America and Europe. But now, more and more coffee stays in Guatemala, as people there have started to enjoy their own world-renowned brew. That's goodÃÂ ...
PRI
January 24, 2018
She harvested enough even to cook and store for rainy months when the milpa is too soggy to produce. She is Mayan, from the Mam people of Guatemala, and her elders taught her to till her land based on a very precise knowledge of the weather. This subsistence indigenous community has survived likeÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
January 18, 2018
Currently, approximately 50 percent of Guatemalan children under five years of age are stunted due to chronic food insecurity. ... Four years of consecutive drought in Central America's Dry Corridor—a region that encompasses a large portion of southern Guatemala—have exacerbated food insecurityÃÂ ...
The Verge
January 15, 2018
A mysterious epidemic that killed millions of people in 16th century Mexico may be linked to a rare strain of Salmonella, a new DNA analysis reveals. The discovery is the best clue yet to the cause of a devastating infection that killed up to 80 percent of Mexico's native population between 1545 and 1550ÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
February 16, 2017
An especially debilitating drought had suffocated this part of Guatemala since 2014 and the rust, which proliferates in lower altitudes, higher ... According to ANACAFE, the Guatemalan national organization of coffee growers, more than half a million Guatemalans rely directly on the coffee harvest forÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
June 29, 2016
Thousands of people in southern Guatemala are suffering from a prolonged drought after years of below-average rainfall. The drought has now resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being left hungry. The situation is particularly bad in the "dry corridor", a region in the south of the country whichÃÂ ...
Berkeleyside
September 30, 2017
He was able to find Guatemalan rosewood and mahogany, as well as ... added a drought-tolerant, sculptural garden of cacti and succulents toÃÂ ...
Blasting News
September 28, 2017
Earlier this week in Guatemala, archaeologists made an amazing ... The team of Guatemalan and American archaeologists made their latest .... Some people believe that this drought has been brought on by ancestral spirits.
Christian Science Monitor
September 28, 2017
Migrants and refugees from Central America – primarily Guatemala, ... that hunger due to a prolonged drought that began in 2014 is becomingÃÂ ...
Devex
September 26, 2017
Ethiopia has been struck by natural disaster, drought conditions, but they ... I did a tour and I went to Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala,ÃÂ ...
Horsetalk
September 16, 2017
Brooke has recently started working in Zacapa in Guatemala. ... The highland areas of Zacapa are prone to droughts and in this area of the country, ... Brooke provided bags of drought-tolerant grass seed for owners to provideÃÂ ...
Tucson Weekly
September 14, 2017
Also droughts have been intensifying, especially through the "dry corridor" that goes through Guatemala, El Salvador, ... If you're getting extorted or recruited at gun point by a gang, you're not going to talk about the drought.
HuffPost
September 7, 2017
The outbreak included large areas of central Mexico and Guatemala, ... by the conquering Spanish as well as a drought may have disrupted theÃÂ ...
Reliefweb
September 6, 2017
Currently, approximately 50 percent of Guatemalan children under five years of ... Four years of consecutive drought in Central America's DryÃÂ ...
UN Dispatch
August 30, 2017
... a “correlation between prolonged droughts in El Salvador, Guatemala and ... The “Dry Corridor” is a drought-prone band that stretches acrossÃÂ ...
Kankakee Daily Journal
August 28, 2017
... because of a civil war, which was initiated by a thousand-year drought. ... from the Paris Accord, our country joins Guatemala and Syria as theÃÂ ...
ReporterNews.com
August 28, 2017
The outbreak included large areas of central Mexico and Guatemala, ... as a drought may have disrupted the hygiene measures used by theÃÂ ...
Inter Press Service
August 26, 2017
... with phenomena such as increasingly long droughts, it is vital for the ... to be developed in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras.
Natural Resources Defense Council
August 25, 2017
Poverty and hunger, worsened by drought, were key driving factors for the ... from the “Dry Corridor” of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
Corpus Christi Caller-Times
August 24, 2017
The outbreak included large areas of central Mexico and Guatemala, ... as a drought may have disrupted the hygiene measures used by theÃÂ ...
Public Finance International
August 24, 2017
People are being driven by the effects of drought to flee Central ... on the correlation between prolonged droughts in El Salvador, Guatemala,ÃÂ ...
Christian Science Monitor
August 24, 2017
Food shortages in drought-prone Central America have caused mass migration, ... The so-called "Dry Corridor" running through Guatemala,ÃÂ ...
Prensa Latina
August 24, 2017
Guatemala, Aug 23 (Prensa Latina) Long droughts in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are now worsening food insecurity and irregularÃÂ ...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
August 23, 2017
The so-called "Dry Corridor" running through Guatemala, El Salvador, ... Two consecutive years of drought from 2015 to mid-2016, linked to aÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
August 23, 2017
In 2016, WFP Guatemala supported 627,400 food-insecure people of which ... Within the PRRO 200490, WFP reached 6,000 drought-affectedÃÂ ...
UN News Centre
August 23, 2017
... a correlation between prolonged droughts in El Salvador, Guatemala ... the Dry Corridor, a drought-prone area that crosses these countries.
ReliefWeb
August 17, 2017
GUATEMALA CITY – The President of the National Congress, Oscar Stuardo ... affects almost half of Guatemalan children and deprives the country of ... The three years of drought has forced many communities deep intoÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
August 6, 2017
He was deported to Guatemala when Heras was pregnant with Kevin, .... criticized for building a water park during a historic drought, did notÃÂ ...
Telegraph.co.uk
August 5, 2017
... drought and disease so that nutritious, sustaining produce is always ... to equipping smallholders in Guatemala with business skills to helpÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
August 4, 2017
Drought-warning tool to help Central American farmers - U.N. ... Central America's "Dry Corridor" running through Guatemala, El Salvador, ... Climate change is expected to bring more frequent and severe droughts and floodsÃÂ ...
New York Times
August 1, 2017
... him to Mexico, South Vietnam, Bolivia, Colombia and Guatemala. ... fast enough to drought-ravaged Ethiopia, though he said that his critics,ÃÂ ...
Prensa Latina
July 31, 2017
According to the Long-Term Climate Risk Index, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador are among the 15 countries with theÃÂ ...
WIRED
July 17, 2017
"Droughts affected the Syrian harvests, compounded by historically poor ... Guatemala already has problems with food security, and manyÃÂ ...
Bahamas Tribune
July 17, 2017
Guatemala took the lead from the free throw line (65-64) with 1:56 left in ... jumper stemmed the tide and stopped the drought for the Bahamas.
FIBA
July 16, 2017
Mexico opened the day with an important win over Guatemala by the score of 61-44. ... the championship, over a Guatemalan quintet that still has not won. ... Jamaica went through an offensive drought in the second and thirdÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
July 12, 2017
Guatemala - Drought (MDRGT009): Final Report ... In January 2016, the Guatemalan Red Cross carried out a detailed assessment of ruralÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
July 11, 2017
... in East and Southern Africa, particularly in Ethiopia, Malawi and Zimbabwe as well as debilitating drought in Guatemala and Honduras.
TRT World
May 22, 2017
Millions of people in Guatemala are suffering from a prolonged drought that has resulted in food shortages. The phenomenon is particularly pronounced in theÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
February 16, 2017
What's happening in Guatemala is, in many ways, a harbinger of what's to come ... Drought and a pernicious fungus called roya ― coffee rust ― were ... the Pacific, “so more vulnerable to extensive droughts caused by El Nino,” he told me. ... nearly 75,000 Guatemalan migrants were apprehended along theÃÂ ...
Markets Insider
December 31, 1999
... hurricanes in Grenada and Guatemala; cyclones in India, Myanmar and Vanuatu; floods in Bangladesh, Mexico and Pakistan; drought andÃÂ ...
NWAOnline
December 31, 1999
The sweet faces of the people I met in Guatemala and El Salvador also conceal ... Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of ... inspected by the government has been affected by the drought . ... lion's share of carbon emissions exacerbating their droughts and flooding,ÃÂ ...
Humanosphere
March 24, 2017
Extreme weather and climate conditions, including Arctic "heatwaves," are continuing this year, after 2016 topped the global temperature charts and saw shrinking sea ice and surging sea levels.
Skoll Foundation
March 22, 2017
... management of water and sanitation for all by 2030. Water For People supports governments in Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, and Bolivia to create systems-change initiatives to enable these countries to achieve this ambitious goal ...
OregonLive.com
March 21, 2017
A young Somali girl crouches down outside her makeshift hut at a camp of people displaced from their homes elsewhere in the country by the drought, shortly after dawn in Qardho, Somalia Thursday, March 9, 2017. Somalia's government has declared theÃÂ ...
ReliefWeb
March 21, 2017
Both programmes aim at increasing the quantity and quality of staple grain production. The Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation (PRRO) supports the Government's drought response plan and provides food assistance in the form of food and/or CBTs toÃÂ ...
Socialist Project
March 19, 2017
Similarly, in discussing the lead-up to Guatemala's response to a ruling against Goldcorp by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Gordon and Webber expose a flurry of meetings between officials from the Canadian and Guatemalan governments ...
CBC.ca
March 19, 2017
Somalia is experiencing a devastating drought that has led to famine which could affect 6.2 million people, the United Nations estimates.
Eagle Radio
March 14, 2017
Video appeals for donations to help those affected in the crisis - caused by droughts and conflict - will air on Sky, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Sir Mo, who spent his early childhood in ... "The drought is really bad and there are millions ...
Mid-City Messenger
March 13, 2017
One day in September of 1995, I made a trip with my wife and a mutual friend to Cedar Bluff, a place I considered the most beautiful place in Indiana, and only fifteen minutes from our home in Bloomington.
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