Honduras
Climate change impacts
It takes only 36 days for the average Canadian to produce as much greenhouse gases as the average Honduran will produce over the course of the entire year. Therefore, February 5th (36 days into the year) is "Climate Change Impacts in Honduras Day."
Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of weather and climate extremes in Honduras. For example, in 1998, Hurricane Mitch affected about half of Honduras’ population, devastating infrastructure, agriculture, and health services. Honduras is already vulnerable to extreme weather events, and with climate change these events are expected to get worse in the future.
For more information on climate change impacts in Honduras, see the Friends of the Earth International report, “Climate Change: Voices from communities affected by climate change.”
Story
“After a lunch of handmade tortillas, chicken and beans we walked, chickens, puppies and children flitting ahead of us on the mud trails connecting the fields. Gomez pointed to a chicken coop, another FIPAH initiative aimed at the concentrated collection of fertilizer for difficult soil conditions where nutrients are often washed out in torrential rains.
Climate change is a newish part of the pastoral lexicon here, and though drought and flooding has occurred in the past, the farmers say that today there is a lot more of it. With that in mind they grow with specific goals and diversify crops to succeed in drought or flood. As of this year they had 23 varieties of beans and almost the same number of corn preserved in the four local seed banks used by 60 farmers in the area. A decade ago they had only a handful.”
Read the rest of Susan Hollis’ story about Honduran farmers adapting to climate change.
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