Analysis of the Medium-Term Effects of Hurricane Mitch on Food Security in Central America

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dc.coverageHonduras
dc.creatorAgriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division
dc.date2023-10-11T08:08:03Z
dc.date2023-10-11T08:08:03Z
dc.date2001
dc.date2018-01-04T07:21:59.0000000Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-28T00:45:44Z
dc.descriptionCentral America is well known to be a region vulnerable to natural disasters, whether hurricanes, droughts or earthquakes. During the final week of October 1998, Hurricane Mitch - arguably the worst natural disaster of the 20th Century - hit five of the region's six countries (Costa Rica is not included in this study), and Honduras and Nicaragua in particular. Its devastating force reached category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. The hurricane brought sustained winds of 288 km/h and gusts of up t o 340 km/h
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dc.identifier0259-2460
dc.identifierhttps://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/Y2784E
dc.identifierhttp://www.fao.org/3/a-y2784e.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/318126
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relationFAO Economic and Social Development Paper
dc.relation0259-2460
dc.rightsFAO
dc.titleAnalysis of the Medium-Term Effects of Hurricane Mitch on Food Security in Central America
dc.titleAnalysis of the Medium-Term Effects of Hurricane Mitch on Food Security in Central America
dc.typeBook (stand-alone)

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