When you don't have food to feed your children, when you don't have money to buy medicines you are pushed into desperation", said Beasley. "People don't want to leave their homes, they are being forced to."
Hunger in Central America has quadrupled over the past two years, with 8 million people now hungry. Of this figure, 1.7 million people are in the ‘Emergency' category of food insecurity meaning they require urgent food assistance.
The rise in hunger has coincided with a doubling in the number of people planning to migrate. A WFP assessment conducted in January 2021 saw at least 15 percent of people surveyed wanting to migrate as compared to only eight percent in 2018.
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