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Published: Thursday, May 6, 2021
Kamala Harris. Photo credit: Sarah Silbiger - Pool via CNP/picture alliance / Consolidated News Photos/Newscom
Vice President Kamala Harris participated in a virtual roundtable with Guatemalan community leaders last month. She says climate change is contributing to the humanitarian crisis at the U.S. border. Sarah Silbiger - Pool via CNP/picture alliance / Consolidated News Photos/Newscom
Vice President Kamala Harris is describing climate change as a driver of migration from Central America, and she s pushing for adaptation efforts as a way to address it.
Her comments mark a seismic shift in federal policy as the Biden administration struggles to find an answer for the growing number of migrants fleeing from a region that s suffering from drought and corruption.
El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua: Remote Monitoring Update, April 2021 - Rising food assistance needs will likely peak prior to the start of the primera harvest in late August
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• Food access among poor urban and rural households is likely to worsen until the start of the primera harvest in late August, driving an increase in food assistance needs.
Below-normal household income from various livelihood sources, coupled with rising staple food prices (particularly for beans), is suppressing purchasing power.
• Primera crop production is expected to be average on the national level across the region, based on a forecast of above-average rainfall in April and May, government seed distributions, and production capacity of medium and large farms. Among smallholder farmers, however, high fertilizer prices and localized poor soil conditions will most likely lead to below-average harvests on the household level. Still, the availability of several months of food