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Honduras is mobilizing 350 technical teams to georeference coffee farms and issue non-deforestation certificates required by the European Union's deforestation regulation, which affects roughly half of the country's coffee exports to Europe.

Honduras is accelerating geo-mapping of coffee farms by December to meet European import requirements that all coffee be free of deforestation since 2020, protecting about 60% of the country's coffee exports.

The emergency agency Copeco has placed 75 municipalities under yellow alert and 48 under green alert due to drought conditions worsened by the dry season, with about one million people facing direct effects including crop losses and water shortages.

Environment Minister Juan Carlos Ramos is pushing Congress to approve a solid-waste law that has cleared first debate, saying it would unlock international funding for sanitary landfills and improve trash collection across Honduras's 298 municipalities.

Geographer Carlos Héctor Sabillón warned that Honduras faces water shortages from decades of poor planning and urged the government to adopt a long-term national strategy to capture rainfall, reforest watersheds, and build storage infrastructure.

A grain producer warns that an extended dry season from mid-July through early October, driven by climate change and El Niño, could reduce maize and bean output by roughly two million quintals (about 90,000 metric tons) in the dry corridor, deepening food insecurity for subsistence farming families.