Food Sovereignty & Climate Change
Food is a basic human right.
Challenges
Climate change significantly threaten the lives of Central American and Mexican communities who depend primarily on crop yields and agriculture. With continuing droughts, crop shortages, and rising food prices, communities are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and food insecurity. In the past 10 years, natural disasters have also been occurring with increasing frequency, damaging some of the region's most critical infrastructures.
In particular, the Dry Corridor of Central America has been severely affected by a 10-year drought that has predominantly affected rural and Indigenous communities. As climate change continues to catalyze unpredictable weather patterns, we predict that the Dry Corridor will continue to require substantial humanitarian relief due to low crop yields and food insecurity in the region.
What We Do
Horizons of Friendship works with women and Indigenous-led organizations and leaders in the region to strengthen food security and end climate change. Together with our partners, we defend Mesoamerican people’s food sovereignty and the sustainable production of food across the region. Food sovereignty encompasses people’s right to have healthy and culturally appropriate food using sustainable methods of production, as well as their right to define their own food and agricultural systems.
Horizons is committed to:
Funding small farmers to purchase tools and native seeds to feed their families,
Promoting the protection of water sources and reforestation,
Increasing citizen advocacy for government programs and policies to address food sovereignty and food security.