Nina Strochlic writes in National Geographic about the challenges facing the poor in Guatemala during a time of crisis. Child hunger and malnutrition is a scourge, and is an indictment of the lack of government responsibility in a country of… Read More ›
Hunger
Drought and hunger: why thousands of Guatemalans are fleeing north
The threat of famine and the battle for dwindling natural resources are increasingly being recognised as major factors in the exodus José García Escobar and Melisa Rabanales write in The Guardian as part of the Global Development series. Martina García… Read More ›
Guatemalan State Can No Longer Afford to Neglect Food Security
This is an important article about the problems of hunger and malnutrition that affect people in Guatemala, especially its children and the state’s wilful inactivity in this regard. Joseph Ringoen is a Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs…. Read More ›
The children of Guatemala are starving
Natasha Pizzey-Siegert Paulina Noj sits with three of her eight children. The children of Guatemala are starving By Natasha Pizzey-Siegert Half of Guatemala’s children are malnourished. Years of poverty, violence and underdevelopment are taking a toll on Guatemala’s most… Read More ›
Hunger in Guatemala
World Food Day was the 16th October and, to ‘celebrate’, Danilo Valladares wrote an article for Inter Press Service, found on Global Issues. The article was titled, ‘Guatemala: Little Headway against Rampant Malnutrition’. “ The Guatemalan population of 14 million… Read More ›
Guatemala: Food Crisis in the Polochic Exacerbates as Government Repression Continues
“The massive evictions of 800 families from 14 communities in Guatemala’s Polochic Valley, removing peasant agriculture in order to install the Chabil Utzaj sugar plantation, began on March 15, 2011. When we heard, we were surprised. Not because we have… Read More ›
‘Hungry for Justice’ – not guns
At the 2000 UN Millennium Summit, world leaders from rich and poor countries alike committed themselves – at the highest political level – to a set of eight time-bound targets (Millennium Development Goals – MDGs) that, when achieved, will end… Read More ›
Guatemalan Government Actions On Food Security Issue
Democracy Now! ran the following headline: “UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned the growing global food crisis has reached emergency proportions. Ban Ki-moon said the international community needs to take urgent action in order to avert a larger political… Read More ›
