Climate-Fragility Risk Brief: El Salvador
Publisher: adelphi and Climate Security Expert Network
Author(s): Herman Rosa Chávez, Daria Ivleva, Héctor Morales Munoz, Katarina Schulz, Beatice Mosello, and Lukas Rüttinger
Date: 2023
Topics: Climate Change, Conflict Causes, Land, Livelihoods, Renewable Resources
Countries: El Salvador
El Salvador is one of the countries forming the Central American Dry Corridor. The Central American Dry Corridor faces poor distribution of irregular rain, drought, environmental degradation and low crop yields, which creates vulnerability. El Salvador is caught in a vicious circle of poverty, migration and violence, and this convergence implies that the country is fragile to climate change impacts undermining human security. The country lacks the resources and capacities to cope with the rapidly growing adverse impacts of climate change, which interact with socioeconomic, demographic and political factors to compound fragility risks. This risk brief charts how food insecurity, gang-related violence and migration interact, creating human insecurity and how adverse climatic conditions exacerbate this vicious circle in El Salvador. It also presents entry points to address climate-fragility risks in El Salvador.