# GIEWS Update – Central America |KORE - Knowledge Sharing Platform on Resilience| Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

> FAO's GIEWS update says El Niño conditions are likely to persist from May to July, overlapping with planting of Central America's main-season maize. The dry season was drier than usual, and white maize prices are already high.

- Date: 2019-04-30 · published 2019-04-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region Central America · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/59510-giews-update-central-america-kore-knowledge-sharing-platform-on-resilience-food
- Commodities: [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md)

## Why it matters

Dry weather during planting could reduce Central American maize output and raise import demand, supporting prices for white maize and yellow corn imports. The effect on world prices is small given the regional scale.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CORN | 2024-02-26 | [964. Convergence of El Niño and Expected Transition to La Niña \| Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences \| JIRCAS](https://feedsoft.ai/events/31587-964-convergence-of-el-nino-and-expected-transition-to-la-nina-japan.md) | +0.5% | +7.8% |
| CORN | 2023-11-03 | [El Niño: Anticipatory Action and Response Plan, October 2023 - March 2024 - Mitigating the expected impacts of El Niño-induced climate extremes on agriculture and food security - World \| ReliefWeb](https://feedsoft.ai/events/33097-el-nino-anticipatory-action-and-response-plan-october-2023-march-2024.md) | +1.0% | -1.0% |
| CORN | 2023-08-07 | [El Niño: Anticipatory Action and Response Plan, August-December 2023 - Mitigating the expected impacts of El Niño-induced climate extremes on agriculture and food security - World \| ReliefWeb](https://feedsoft.ai/events/34472-el-nino-anticipatory-action-and-response-plan-august-december-2023-mitigating.md) | -0.9% | -2.9% |
| CORN | 2026-06-08 | [Agricultural production threatened by combination of El Niño and high input prices - Joint Research Centre](https://feedsoft.ai/events/18726-agricultural-production-threatened-by-combination-of-el-nino-and-high-input.md) | -0.9% | +0.5% |
| CORN | 2026-10-06 | [Latin America’s commodity exporters face El Niño, costly freight and a shifting US trade picture \| World Ports Organization](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16758-latin-america-s-commodity-exporters-face-el-nino-costly-freight-and-a-shifting.md) | -3.0% | -6.3% |

## Sources

- fao.org: https://www.fao.org/in-action/kore/publications/publications-details/en/c/1192250/

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