When the rains fail: Preparing for drought in Central America

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Across Central America’s so-called Dry Corridor, farming families live at the mercy of the rains. In southwestern Honduras, Anastacio Martínez Gómez has spent most of his 73 years learning to work the land. But experience can only take him so far.

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