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

Year of publication 2001

Author Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Series title FAO Economic and Social Development Paper

Series number 0259-2460

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Central 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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