Key Messages

Red bean prices have dramatically increased during the reporting period (Sept-Dec 2010), affecting small consumers' access to markets.

The adverse weather has had negative effects on food security by causing losses in bean production.

The food security situation throughout the country was affected by adverse weather, agencies report moderate hunger and a very low prevalence of undernourishment.

The Government is implementing price control measures to benefit consumers, while also continuing a National Strategy for Food and Nutrition Security.

Rights routinely ignored in post-conflict and disaster reconstruction action - UN expert on housing

GENEVA (8 March 2011) - UN Special Rapporteur Raquel Rolnik warned Tuesday that human rights standards and particularly the right to adequate housing are not being translated into concrete policies in post-conflicts and post-disaster reconstruction processes.

"This has disastrous consequences, particularly for the most vulnerable," Ms. Rolnik said in her annual report* to the Human Rights Council, "and is particularly alarming

Consejo de Derechos Humanos

16=BA período de sesiones

Tema 3 de la agenda

Promoción y protección de todos los derechos humanos, civiles, políticos, económicos, sociales y culturales, incluido el derecho al desarrollo

Resumen

El presente informe, presentado de conformidad con la resolución 6/27 del Consejo de Derechos Humanos, subraya la importancia de integrar las normas de derechos humanos y en particular el derecho a una vivienda adecuada en los procesos de reconstrucción posteriores a desastres y conflictos. Aunque se tienen en cuenta las diferencias existentes entre

Executive summary

In the Americas, traditional cooperation funds appear to be diminishing under the rationale that the continent has positive economic indicators. However, as the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report 2010 clearly demonstrates, inequality particularly in health, education and income reduces the positive performance in Latin America and the Caribbean by one-fourth with Haiti, Bolivia, Guatemala, Peru, and Panama showing the most substantial inequalities. In fact, the Americas region is the most unequal in the world, exacerbating vulnerability

Italy funds regional agricultural project for four countries

Rome, 10 December 2010 - An FAO regional agricultural project funded by the Government of Italy will enable El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to achieve higher food security levels through improvements in the commercialization of farm products, the agency announced today.

A $5.9 million contribution to FAO from the Government of Italy will make possible the implementation of a project designed to get agricultural produce to market more rapidly and to improve the efficiency of agrifood chains.

Country Context

Honduras is the second largest and most mountainous country in Central American1with a territory of 112,492km2. Currently it has an estimated population of 8,045,990 inhabitants of which 49.3 per cent are men and 50.7 per cent are women2. With a 2.1 per cent population growth rate3 , if the same pattern is maintained the population is projected to reach 9 million in 2015. Currently six out of every ten Hondurans live in conditions of poverty, which means that 65 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line with 42.2 per cent living in

Source: alertnet // Anastasia Moloney

BOGOTA (AlertNet) - Climate change could cost Central America at least half its gross domestic product by the end of this century as more extreme weather, lower crop yields and water shortages are forecast in a region already prone to natural disasters, a recent United Nations report warns.

Increasing global average temperatures, rising sea levels, changes in rainfall and more frequent storms and droughts linked to climate change are already taking a heavy toll on government finances and poor rural communities across the seven countries that make

Boletín 118-2010

En virtud que las condiciones meteorológicas son estables sobre el territorio nacional, y particularmente sobre la zona del litoral atlántico, COPECO suspende la alerta verde, emitida hace 72 horas, para los departamentos de: Cortes, Atlántida, Colon, Gracias a Dios, Islas de la Bahía, norte de Olancho y Yoro.

No obstante, COPECO llama a la población a mantenerse pendiente de los diversos boletines informativos que se emitan, ya que el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (SMN) monitorea una vaguada localizada

Debido a que la interacción de un sistema de baja presión, con una masa de aire frio sobre la costa atlántica del país, desde mañana jueves en la madrugada, favorecerá la formación de tormentas eléctricas de moderadas a fuertes, que podrían dejar acumulados de lluvia de hasta 150 milímetros, COPECO emite ALERTA VERDE por 48 horas, para los departamentos de Cortes, Atlántida, Colon, Gracias a Dios, Islas de la Bahía, norte de Olancho y Yoro.

Seg=FAn el análisis meteorológico, los vientos empezarán a sentirse del norte y noreste a partir del jueves con