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Food Crisis Worsened by El Niño

23/04/2024 Go to Evidence

43.2 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean do not have sufficient access to food, in a context worsened by climate impacts associated with the El Niño phenomenon. (WFP, 2024)

Programa Mundial de Alimentos (WFP). (2024). Fenómeno de El Niño 2023–2024: América Latina y el Caribe.

PMA, 2024.

Tag: ElNiño Climate_Risks Food_Water_Security Food_Securtiy_And_Nutrition
Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (agg. 20 countries)
Sector: Agri-Food (total)
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture
Instrument: Internacional humanitarian and Development Assistance Food aid
Beneficiary: Family agriculture Rural communities Researchers Agricultural producers
Result: Risk mitigation Impact: Climate risk resilience Impact: Food and nutritional security

Dry Corridor Faces Food Crisis

23/04/2024 Go to Evidence

1.7 to 2.7 million people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua may require food assistance by March 2024 due to the impacts of the El Niño phenomenon in the Central American Dry Corridor (WFP, 2024).

Programa Mundial de Alimentos (WFP). (2024). Fenómeno de El Niño 2023–2024: América Latina y el Caribe.

PMA, 2024.

Tag: ElNiño Climate_Risks Food_Securtiy_And_Nutrition
Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (agg. 20 countries)
Sector: Agri-Food (total)
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture
Instrument: Internacional humanitarian and Development Assistance Food aid
Beneficiary: Researchers
Result: Risk mitigation Impact: Climate risk resilience Impact: Food and nutritional security

Drought affected thousands of hectares : Guatemala

23/04/2024 Go to Evidence

360,000 hectares in Guatemala’s Dry Corridor were affected by the lack of rainfall associated with the El Niño phenomenon, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAGA) (WFP, 2024).

PMA, 2024.

Programa Mundial de Alimentos (WFP). (2024). Fenómeno de El Niño 2023–2024: América Latina y el Caribe.

Tag: ElNiño Climate_Risks Food_Securtiy_And_Nutrition
Country: Guatemala
Sector: Agri-Food (total)
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture
Instrument: Internacional humanitarian and Development Assistance Food aid
Beneficiary: Family agriculture Rural communities Agricultural producers
Result: Risk mitigation Impact: Climate risk resilience Impact: Food and nutritional security

Agricultural losses exceeded 75%.

23/04/2024 Go to Evidence

25% to 75% crop losses were recorded in areas with Action Against Hunger projects in Guatemala during 2023, due to drought conditions associated with the El Niño phenomenon. Agricultural losses exceeded 75% in some affected areas.

PMA, 2024

Programa Mundial de Alimentos (WFP). (2024). Fenómeno de El Niño 2023–2024: América Latina y el Caribe.

Tag: ElNiño Climate_Risks Food_Securtiy_And_Nutrition
Country: Guatemala
Sector: Agri-Food (total)
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture
Instrument: Internacional humanitarian and Development Assistance
Beneficiary: Family agriculture Rural communities Agricultural producers
Result: Risk mitigation Impact: Climate risk resilience Impact: Food and nutritional security

Honduras faces a food crisis.

23/04/2024 Go to Evidence

2.4 million people in Honduras faced crisis or more severe levels of food insecurity between June and August 2023 due to below-average rainfall associated with the El Niño phenomenon (WFP, 2024).

PMA, 2024

Programa Mundial de Alimentos (WFP). (2024). Fenómeno de El Niño 2023–2024: América Latina y el Caribe.

Tag: ElNiño Climate_Risks Food_Securtiy_And_Nutrition
Country: Honduras
Sector: Agri-Food (total)
Area: Agrifood Context
Instrument: Internacional humanitarian and Development Assistance Food aid
Beneficiary: Family agriculture Rural communities
Result: Risk mitigation Impact: Climate risk resilience Impact: Food and nutritional security

Corn yields

14/03/2024 Go to Evidence

8% reduction in corn yields in Central America in 2030 due to climate change, compared to the 2001-2009 period, according to the IPCC extreme scenario (Rodriguez, 2023).

Rodríguez (2023)

J. Rodríguez Rubí, Análisis de vulnerabilidad agrícola al cambio climático para la región del Sistema de la Integración Centroamericana (SICA), (LC/MEX/TS.2023/38), Ciudad de México, Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), 2023

Tag: Climate_Risks
Country: Central America SICA Region
Sector: Agri-Food (total) Food
Area: Agrifood Context

Financing climate action

01/03/2024 Go to Evidence

22.9 billion dollars (0.5% of GDP) was the investment to finance climate action in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2020 (ECLAC, 2024).

CEPAL, 2024

CEPAL (2024). La economía del cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe, 2023: necesidades de financiamiento y herramientas de política para la transición hacia economías con bajas emisiones de carbono y resilientes al cambio climático (LC/TS.2023/154),

Tag: Climate_Risks
Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (countries)
Sector: Environment and natural resources
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture
Instrument: International financial cooperation
Result: Climate mitigation

Investment in early warning systems

01/03/2024 Go to Evidence

700 million dollars per year, equivalent to 0.01% of the regional GDP, are needed for early warning systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC, 2024).

CEPAL, 2024

CEPAL.2024.La economía del cambio climático en América Latina y el Caribe, 2023

Tag: Climate_Risks
Country: Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregate)
Sector: Agriculture, forestry, and fishery products Environment and natural resources
Area: Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture
Instrument: Early warning systems