As Mexicans in the country's north reel from the impact of Tropical Storm Alex, residents further south in Guatemala are still struggling with the aftermath of another storm.<br /><br />Tropical Storm Agatha barreled through the country last month, flooding farms and ruining a year's harvest.<br /><br />The storm only exacerbated a food crisis in the Central American country.<br /><br />The World Food Programme says close to a million Guatemalans live in hunger or fear of starvation. That's about seven per cent of the population.<br /><br />More than 20 per cent of Guatemalans are undernourished as are nearly 50 per cent of children under the age of five.<br /><br />But since Tropical Storm Agatha wiped out crops across the country, food insecurity has become more acute.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's David Mercer reports from San Miguel Escobar, Guatemala.
