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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...

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 Format KEY MESSAGES • 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 na...

Central America and Caribbean Key Message Update: Food assistance needs remain high during the lean season and insecurity worsens in Haiti, April 2021 Format Key Messages The food insecure population continues to rise as the lean season progresses, driven by the impacts of hurricanes Eta and Iota, the COVID-19 pandemic, prior years of drought, and the macroeconomic and sociopolitical crises in Haiti. Food insecure households face low food availability and access because of below-average crop production, high staple food prices, below-normal income, and reduced purchasing power. Crisis (IPC Ph...

Hernandez lopez.s mud hut, the beans simmering in the pot, it's their food for the next 24 hours. lopez tells me he has ten children. and before the droughts came and the crops failed, his little farm here yielded enough beans and corn to feed the family. these days, it offers only hunger. >> reporter: what you're seeing across this hillside is the failure of yet another crop. corn here, which is the staple, what people eat, has failed for two consecutive seasons. it means people here do not have enough to eat. and it's not just on this one hillside, but across these entire valleys. millions o...

The writer is the Founder and Executive Director of Climate Refugees, a human rights NGO that calls for the protection and rights of those displaced by climate change. Refugees fleeing conflict and climate change conditions in Africa’s Lake Chad basin, north of Diffa, Niger. Credit: Amali Tower NEW YORK, Apr 22 2021 (IPS) - Today marks Earth Day and all around the globe, advocates and activists, concerned citizens and the like will gather to raise awareness about the climate crisis. World leaders will be among them, notably U.S. President Joe Biden speaking as his administration kicks off ...