As El Niño worsens, it puts additional strain on existing capacities and increases vulnerability among Latin America and the Caribbean’s populations, further soliciting the need for humanitarian intervention and response. This paper gives a general overview. and looks at impacts and responses.
Key considerations:
- ‘El Niño’ phenomenon causes extreme climate anomalities with impact on hydrological cycles, livelihoods, and agriculture
- there is no clear correlation between ‘El Niño’ intensity and the impacts caused by drought on agricultural producti
- ‘El Niño’ emerges under pre-established drought conditions in Central America and the Caribbean Region
- the negative effects exacerbated bad conditions across the continent, with particular impact in the Dry Corridor of Central American, La Española Island, dry areas of Colombia, and flood-prone zones in South America
- ‘El Niño’ could negatively affect the Primera season of 2016 in Central America due to a late and irregular start of the rainy season