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With climate change linked to failed crops in Central America, weather variability is interacting with and exacerbating existing issues that trigger migration.

As climate change fuels more frequent and severe droughts, people in rural parts of Central America are struggling to feed their families and are migrating in response.

Prolonged droughts and heavy rain have destroyed more than half of the maize and bean crops of the subsistence farmers along the Central American Dry Corridor, leaving 1.4 million people food insecure. Funds are needed to help strengthen the farmers’ resilience in the face of future climate-related events.

The dominant media narrative that explains the reasons for current Central American migration to the United States concentrates on the dismal economic and security conditions across source states. However, those explanations don’t tell the whole story: drought linked with environmental degradation is an under-recognised factor that heavily influences migration.

Many local initiatives have grown out of the "Climate Resilient Cities in Latin America" effort and are now the basis for practical responses to climate change. To improve resilience, local authorities must openly share climate information and invite public input. Climate finance can also step up to fund projects, but gender equality must always be a priority.

ACT Alliance developed this publication as a contribution to the growing need to understand the dual urgency of increasing the ambition to address climate change in the wake of its devastating impacts and to significantly increase the allocation of

La Ley de Protección Civil, Prevención y Mitigación de Desastres, LPC, en el artículo 20 define que el Plan de Protección Civil, Prevención y Mitigación de Desastres, PNPC, tiene como objeto definir las acciones del Estado y de la sociedad civil.

Centroamérica no tiene herramientas para ayudar a los agricultores a mitigar las crisis climáticas, aunque ya hay iniciativas importantes a su disposición. A diferencia del seguro tradicional, un nuevo programa, Produce Seguro, compensa automáticamente a los agricultores en El Salvador después de recibir información satelital de posibles riesgos.