Prioritizing Investment Portfolios for Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) in Guatemala
The Dry Corridor in Central America has been affected by recurrent severe droughts in the last two years, which have particularly affected maize and bean production, threatening the food and nutrition security of approximately 2.5 million people in the region. Over 50% of the people affected are sub...
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| author | Nowak, Andreea C. Lizarazo, Miguel Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin Rojas, Edwin Mejía, Mario |
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| description | The Dry Corridor in Central America has been affected by recurrent severe droughts in the last two years, which have particularly affected maize and bean production, threatening the food and nutrition security of approximately 2.5 million people in the region. Over 50% of the people affected are subsistence farmers distributed across central, northeast-ern, and northwestern Guatemala. In these regions, a pro-longed drought in 2014 led to crop losses of about 70% of bean harvest (equivalent to 70,000 tons) and 80% in maize (200,000 tons), compared to yields in 2013. Such losses were valued at US$58 million and they have had major con-sequences on local and regional food reserves, on people's nutrition and health, as well as on access to drinking water. It has been estimated that approximately 275,000 families were affected by the lack of rainfall in the Guatemalan Dry Corridor during year 2014 (UNOCHA, 2014). |
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| spelling | CGSpace1008792024-01-23T12:04:41Z Prioritizing Investment Portfolios for Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) in Guatemala Nowak, Andreea C. Lizarazo, Miguel Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin Rojas, Edwin Mejía, Mario food security agriculture climate change The Dry Corridor in Central America has been affected by recurrent severe droughts in the last two years, which have particularly affected maize and bean production, threatening the food and nutrition security of approximately 2.5 million people in the region. Over 50% of the people affected are subsistence farmers distributed across central, northeast-ern, and northwestern Guatemala. In these regions, a pro-longed drought in 2014 led to crop losses of about 70% of bean harvest (equivalent to 70,000 tons) and 80% in maize (200,000 tons), compared to yields in 2013. Such losses were valued at US$58 million and they have had major con-sequences on local and regional food reserves, on people's nutrition and health, as well as on access to drinking water. It has been estimated that approximately 275,000 families were affected by the lack of rainfall in the Guatemalan Dry Corridor during year 2014 (UNOCHA, 2014). 2016-09-01 2019-04-23T19:22:24Z 2019-04-23T19:22:24Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100879 en Open Access application/pdf Nowak A, Lizarazo M, Corner-Dolloff C, Rojas E, Mejía M. 2016. Prioritizing Investment Portfolios for Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) in Guatemala. CCAFS Info Note. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security. |
| spellingShingle | food security agriculture climate change Nowak, Andreea C. Lizarazo, Miguel Corner-Dolloff, Caitlin Rojas, Edwin Mejía, Mario Prioritizing Investment Portfolios for Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) in Guatemala |
| title | Prioritizing Investment Portfolios for Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) in Guatemala |
| title_full | Prioritizing Investment Portfolios for Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) in Guatemala |
| title_fullStr | Prioritizing Investment Portfolios for Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) in Guatemala |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prioritizing Investment Portfolios for Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) in Guatemala |
| title_short | Prioritizing Investment Portfolios for Climate-smart Agriculture (CSA) in Guatemala |
| title_sort | prioritizing investment portfolios for climate smart agriculture csa in guatemala |
| topic | food security agriculture climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100879 |
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