Central American Farmers Save Together to Cope With Climate Change

For Maria Francisca Ortiz, the drought that has gripped Honduras and decimated her last two harvests of beans and maize is the worst she can remember. But she clings on to the hope that recent rains will encourage the crops she planted last week to grow. "Everything is uncertain," Ortiz, 52, who has five children to feed, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "It started to rain a bit four days ago but these days you don't know how long the rains will last and if...

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