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2020 By the Numbers – COVID 19 Exposes Need for Pro-Food Policies

In Guatemala’s rural “dry corridor” over a million people require food assistance (Oxfam), the result of the global pandemic compounded by years of neglect and the negative impacts of climate change. Project Harvest works with 500 families in this area haunted by hunger. The Project’s permanent program is a development model which provides these families …

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“Hunger May Kill Us before the Coronavirus”

Project Harvest works in 12 communities impacted by COVID 19. The pandemic has exacerbated poverty, malnutrition and discrimination in most rural communities, pushing families into food insecurity as a result of escalating unemployment and the economic disorder caused by the virus. Fragile Family Economies in Collapse “I left, with 10 others, walking three days to …

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From Dependence to Independence – an Entry and Exit Strategy

Many families ask Project Harvest to implement our integrated program of food security and leadership training in their communities, but once we are on the ground, communities don’t want us to leave! So what is our exit strategy? Our entry to support andaccompany a community is linked to our exit strategy. We want communities to …

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Food is a Human Right

Hunger is a manifestation of the lack of compliance on the part of the State to ensure the right of every person to receive an adequate amount of culturally appropriate food. The “Human Right to Food” holds governments to account for addressing today’s global hunger epidemic, a preventable crisis in which 842 million people suffer …

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