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El Niño returns amid multiple global crises - What is El Niño? Typical impacts of El Niño on precipitation patterns

13 Sep 2023

The region with the highest number, prevalence and The extent of the current El Niño event’s impacts on In addition to its effects on crop yields, droughts can 2016severity of food crises during the event was Central Haiti 201 agriculture and food security will depend on a complex 220016 1.5Mlimit water supplies, create livestock losses, and reduce 16and Southern Africa where roughly 14.2 million. [...] rise in food prices cascaded into broader economic to experience average to above-average rainfall during IPC Phase 3+ WFP CARI moderate + severe acute food insecurity For El Niño-driven droughts included in the GRFC, the downturns, as well as contributed to the depreciation of the 2023 rainy season (June–September) while parts severity of the impacts corresponds to the strength of national curren. [...] Below-average affected by the 2015–16 El Niño, and six impacted by the In this region, recovery from the environmental and A weaker 2018–19 El Niño resulted in fewer rainfall is predicted for the Caribbean coast of Central 2018–19 event. [...] socioeconomic impacts of El Niño was difficult because major drought-induced food crises America in line with historical El Niño trends, increasing The impacts were always compounded by successive households’ resilience was weakened by the poor 2015 the risk of drought conditions for the second agricultural agricultural season (GRFC 2017), and the knock-on The weaker El Niño event of 2018–19 trans. [...] Drought in Haiti depressed production average rains between June and September (WFP, In the case of all the food crises linked to the 2015–16 of the main cereal crops, except for rice, which again August 2023).
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