A regional assessment conducted by Oxfam and partner organizations documented that rural communities in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras lost nearly 100% of their maize and bean crops because of drought, irregular rainfall, and the delayed start of the agricultural cycle associated with El Niño. The study covered 354 communities in 58 municipalities and 15 departments of the Central American Dry Corridor and recorded a rapid deterioration in food security, rural livelihoods, and access to water. Many families exhausted or drastically reduced their food reserves, which in some cases may last three weeks or less. The Regional Coordination for Risk Management warned that around seven million people could be at risk from the combination of drought, extreme heat, crop losses, and rising food prices. The article also reports a 99% rainfall deficit in western Pacific Nicaragua, reduced water and pasture availability in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, and the activation of alerts in El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama.

The Government of Mexico, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations signed the 2026-2031 Country Programming Framework. The instrument will guide the priorities, goals, and mechanisms for technical and financial cooperation between Mexico and FAO over six years, with the aim of advancing more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agrifood systems. The Framework includes a programmatic portfolio of approximately 140 million dollars: about 54 million dollars already have identified funding, while an additional 86 million dollars must be mobilized through international cooperation, climate and environmental funds, national resources, development banks, and partnerships with the private sector. Its areas of work include productivity, nutrition, finance, technology, markets, public procurement, short supply chains, sustainable management of water, soils, forests and fisheries, social protection, gender equality, and productive inclusion. Its benefits are directed particularly toward small-scale producers, rural women, young people, agricultural workers, and Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples and communities.