Not many people know it, but the Hass avocado, favorite of Californians, has its humble beginnings in Guatemala. Introduced to the Golden State by chief agronomist of the United Fruit Company, Wilson ...

The President of Guatemala, Alvaro Colom, has announced a “state of public calamity” to tackle food shortages throughout the Central American nation. The failure of bean and corn crops from drought, ...

It is harvest time on the steep hills above the Chixoy river, but many families in the surrounding communities may not have enough food to last the winter.“We haven’t thought what we will do next ...

Members of the Aguilar family, who are struggling to buy an adequate amount of food, pose for a picture inside their house in San Yuyo, on the outskirts of Japala in central Guatemala, last week.

GUATEMALA CITY, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Guatemala aims to truck food aid to more than 400,000 families in the coming months as a severe drought threatens food shortages, President Alvaro Colom said on ...

The US president signs trade agreements with Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala and Ecuador that ‘will bring prices down very ...

BOGOTA (AlertNet) - The number of Guatemalans going hungry is set to rise as the Central American nation faces more food shortages after devastating floods washed away crops, aid agencies say. Agatha, ...

GUATEMALA CITYGUATEMALA CITY — Four people, including two children, died and 96 others were hospitalized Thursday for food poisoning in a town west of Guatemala’s capital. The fire department said the ...

For hundreds of thousands of farmers in Guatemala, this year's harvest is over before it has even begun. The fields in the east of the country are yellow, the ground bone-dry. For 74-year-old Marco ...

A new study reveals that four wild cat species living in the same rainforest habitat in Guatemala reduce competition for food ...