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Climate Extremes, Food Insecurity, and Migration in Central America: A Complicated Nexus
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By Diego Pons
There is growing evidence that climate extremes are having a devastating impact on agriculture in Central America, affecting the livelihoods of millions of farmers and serving as a driver of migration from the region. Both droughts and floods have been shown to have serious financial impacts in many rural areas. Droughts associated with the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon caused agricultural losses estimated at U.S. $465 million in 2014 alone. Over the last 30 years, losses associated with drought in the Central American Dry Corridor, which extends from Panama all the way up to southern Mexico, approached U.S. $10 billion, half of which were in the agricultural sector. Financial aid to help the recovery of smallholder agriculturalists and others most affected by these catastrophic climatic events, however, has been limited. The International Fund for Agricu
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Budget 2021: Fine print shows little real increase in health allocation despite Covid-19
The government has combined many existing heads such as water and sanitation under the 2021-’22 health budget. Representational image. | Arun Sankar/AFP
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman
announced a new healthcare scheme – the Pradhan Mantri Atma Nirbhar Swasth Bharat Yojana – with a Rs 64,180-crore outlay. The Centre’s allocation to the health ministry for 2020-’21 was Rs 67,112 crore. This new scheme appears to make a 100% increase in the entire health allocation.
However, Sitharaman also said that this would be operationalised over six years. And the detailed
Budget document does not have any mention of this scheme for 2021-’22. So it is unclear how much of this money would make its way into any health spending this year.
« Voix pour le changement » : De nombreux acquis dans la quête de la sécurité alimentaire, la résilience pastorale et la promotion des énergies renouvelables lefaso.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lefaso.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.