Honduras drought relief program aids 4,000 households as experts warn against grain imports

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, supported by the Regional Humanitarian Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean, delivered a cash‑plus transfer of US$150 plus inputs to 4,000 households in the Choluteca, Valle and Comayagua departments. The assistance, aimed at 20,000 people, is part of a US$600,000 investment within a US$63.2 million humanitarian plan for the country’s dry corridor. Residents said the money will let them buy seeds and other inputs for planting.

Separately, independent anthropologist Mario Ardón warned that the Honduran government's plan to import beans from Brazil, Nicaragua and Paraguay threatens local producers and deepens food insecurity. He argued that Honduras' many microclimates could sustain domestic production and that large‑scale imports are “the worst threat to local farmers.”