RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Guatemala will begin in 2022 the implementation of a program of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with a local and international investment of US$66.7 million to create environmental jobs over the next seven years. It is the program “Resilient livelihoods of vulnerable small farmers in the Mayan landscapes and the Dry Corridor of Guatemala” (Relive, in English), whose main contribution will be international, for $36.8 million and the rest with local funding, said Thursday a source from FAO’s communications office in Guatemala. The Relive program will benefit 583,146 people indirectly and will provide direct technical assistance to 116,353 small farmers, most of them of indigenous descent from the Achi, Q’echi’, Mopan and Ch’orti Mayan ethnic groups, including 46,000 women.