Central America’s worst drought in decades is having devastating effects on crops, cattle, and families facing food shortages and higher prices.

CCTV America’s John Holman visited Honduras to see how farmers there are coping in the fragile region.

It’s the worst drought in 20 years. Nearly one third of all the children in Honduras are suffering from malnutrition, according to one medical journal report.

The extended dry spell and global warming will only make things worse.

The drought left great expanses of barren land, not just in Honduras but across Central America.

More than 170,000 families in Guatemala lost their crops. Two-thirds of El Salvador’s harvest has been wiped out and in Nicaragua 2,500 cattle died.

The region is feeling the full force of “El Nino”, a weather phenomenon that brings heat waves every couple of years.

The government of Honduras has sent food parcels to the suffering villages. The United Nation World Food Program said that there’s only enough aid to last till the end of this month.