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Photo: José Fausto Díaz. Santa Cruz de Yojoa. Cortés. Honduras
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Monday 22 February 2021 - The severity of acute food insecurity in Honduras has reached unprecedented levels and the Integrated Food Security (IPC) analysis projects that the situation will worsen in the coming months leaving more than one third of the population facing severe hunger. Urgent funding and assistance are needed to help combat this devastating hunger epidemic.
Maite Matheu, Country Director of CARE Honduras says;
“By the end of this year we are looking at a staggering one third of the population of Honduras suffering from extreme and chronic hunger. This is something never seen before, and certainly not in the 25 years I have lived in Honduras. A brutal combination of COVID-19 lockdowns throughout 2020 and subsequent loss of livelihoods, thousands of lost jobs, severe tropical storms at the end of last year, and recurrent droughts in the last 5 years linked to climate change,