In July 2012, USAID/Guatemala signed a five-year award with the local group Associación Guatemalteca de Exportadores (AGEXPORT) to implement roughly half of a $42 million dollar initiative to reduce the risks of food insecurity in rural households through better yields of staple crops, diversified household income from specialty coffees or vegetables, and improved access to and availability of nutritious foods in five departments of the Western Highlands.