In Latin America, the COVID-19 pandemic could throw around 14 million vulnerable people into severe food insecurity. However, the good news is that in the dry corridor of Central America, Catholic Relief Services is showing that food does grow—in pockets of relative prosperity—as a result of improved agricultural practices.  Through our relatively simple water and soil restoration practices, thousands of farm families in the dry corridor have learned to manage their soil and water to produce more, even when it doesn’t rain like it used to. We found that on some 3,000 farms that used these practices, maize yields were 40% percent higher than on conventional plots, even during the severe drought of 2018. This is strong, quantifiable evidence that regenerative agriculture can have major impacts on food security, and indirectly migration. More Information

In Latin America and the Caribbean, GOAL is working to strengthen the resilience of the Blue Economy across Central America, Haiti, and in the Colombia/Venezuela border region. Marine-coastal areas, and in particular fisheries, are of increasing environmental, social, and economic importance in Latin America and the Caribbean and many other parts of the world. By 2025, an estimated 75% of the world's population will live in coastal zones, resulting in both significant development challenges and opportunities for coastal industries (such as fisheries) to drive economic growth, livelihood creation, and conservation.

Literacy nonprofit Child Aid launches in February 2021 its fourth round of life-saving food delivery in its White Flag Hunger Relief Campaign. Child Aid is able to make this emergency food delivery to thousands of hungry Guatemalan children and their families through a generous $75,000 emergency food grant from the Kraft-Heinz Foundation. More Information 

In September, literacy non-profit Child Aid launched a third food delivery round through its Operation White Flag Hunger Relief (OWFHR). This third delivery ensures emergency shelf-stable food will reach 387 families (roughly 2,000 people) in Guatemala. The week-long effort acts as a stopgap measure to stave off starvation during the COVID-19 crisis. Through the full duration of OWFHR—June through September, Child Aid has helped feed more than 12,000 people, using its extensive network of local leaders to make possible food distributions in the geographically remote and impoverished communities where the organization works. More Information