WFP spokesman Herve Verhoosel says the agency aims to provide food assistance to 700,000 people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua – up from 160,000 helped already this year.
Five years of drought have affected more than 2 million people and increased food insecurity of subsistence farmers and their families.
Governments as well as WFP and the U.N.’s Food and Agricultural Organization recently reported that 8 percent of families indicated that they would resort to migration.
“Migration is not a solution,” Verhoosel said Friday, but “longer-term food security systems” are.