Back in October, my colleague Valentina and I traveled to Guatemala to do some field visits in the East and Southern region of the country. It was the first time coming back to the field since the pandemic hit, and it was the first time visiting new communities in the Departments of Jalapa and Jutiapa (East).

There are some 8 million food insecure people in Central America alone, many being pushed to starvation after the loss of 200,000 hectares of agriculture in last year's hurricanes. 5,000 people a day are arriving at the U.S. border from the region as a result.