- COLOMBIA: más de 2 millones de afectados por las lluvias. Un equipo UNDAC está brindando apoyo.

- VENEZUELA: construcción de albergues temporales para permitir año escolar.

- URUGUAY y ARGENTINA: tomando acciones para enfrentar efectos de sequía.

Especialistas de Consorcios Regionales de Experimentación Agrícola (CREA) lanzaron hoy un alerta naranja para los agricultures en un contexto en el cual hay temor a que se repita un panorama climático de sequía como la registrada en la campaña 2008-2009, que provocó muy bajos rindes y quebrantos a la producción de soja y maíz.

Ante este panorama, el dirigente agrícola

Programme purpose: Support five National Societies in the Southern Cone and Brazil to effectively operationalize Strategy 2020 and the Inter American Plan 2007-2011.

Programmes summary: During the first half of 2010, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' (IFRC) Regional Representation for the Southern Cone and Brazil has coordinated with and supported the National Societies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay to implement actions, based on the

In brief

Programme purpose: Support five National Societies in the Southern Cone and Brazil to effectively operationalize the Strategy 2010 and the Inter-American Plan 2007-2011.

Programme summary: The Regional Representation for the Southern Cone and Brazil has established closer relationships with the National Societies allowing for improved support to identify needs. An important part of this process has been the development of country support

MARS Food-Sec bulletin 01/2010 is the first covering the 2009-2010 summer cropping season (October 2009 to April 2010). The main analysis refers to the time period October to December 2009. To put the current situation in a more general context, some additional data from the previous winter cropping season is included, as well as a general overview of the entire year 2009. For the analysis, data at 10- daily (dekadal) and monthly time steps was used.

The meteo and vegetation conditions of the current growing season are compared to the historical long term average

La Secretaría de Emergencia Nacional (SEN) envió ayuda humanitaria a familias afectadas por el temporal de ayer en el departamento de Misiones.

La institución destinó ayer un convoy con funcionarios, chapas y víveres para mitigar las pérdidas sufridas a causa del temporal en dicha zona.

Seg=FAn los datos recogidos hasta el momento por los evaluadores de la SEN a través del EDAN (Evaluación de Daños y

URUGUAY: Local authorities evacuated over 1,540 people due to floods.

PANAMA: Some 4,184 people in the province of Darien were affected by overflowing rivers.

EL SALVADOR: Damages caused by Hurricane Ida are estimated at US$939 million.

The occasional seasonal warming of central and eastern Pacific waters upsets normal weather patterns across the globe and occurs on average every two to five years.

Typically lasting around 12 months, El Nino reappeared once again in June.

Guatemalan authorities blamed it for the nation's worst drought in 30 years, which has left almost 500 people dead from hunger since the start of the year.

In a statement published on Wednesday, FAO representative Jose Graziano da Silva said that the rise of food prices and the economic crisis took millions of people to a situation of food insecurity, and many affected countries do not have resources to address it.

Latin America reduced 8 million cases