El Salvador

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Remote Monitoring Report
October 2023
El Niño to continue causing reduced food availability and access in poor households
  • Most households in the region will experience Stressed food insecurity (IPC Phase 2) due to a seasonal improvement of food availability from the staple grain harvests, the consequent seasonal drop in prices, and the seasonal increase in labor demand for the harvest of cash crops up through January 2024. This is despite weather conditions that will cause a slight reduction in yields and in the income of day laborers. Some pockets of households that experienced total agricultural losses continue to experience Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes.
  • In the period from March to May 2024, there will be a seasonal deterioration in the food status of households, which will be exacerbated by the impact of the drought on the agricultural industry. As a result of an early start to the annual lean season and the persistence of high food prices, the poorest households located in the north and the Dry Corridor of Honduras will show Crisis (IPC Phase 3) outcomes. There will also be pockets of households in this classification in the Dry Corridor of El Salvador and Nicaragua. The rest of the poor urban and rural households in the region will remain in Stressed (IPC Phase 2).
  • Due to ongoing dry conditions, accompanied by atypically high temperatures, a one-month delay in the Postrera harvest is expected at the end of the year, with a decrease of at least 25 percent in the yields of subsistence production households, in addition to a slight drop in commercial production. Due to the evolution of the El Niño phenomenon, these conditions will persist until May 2024, negatively impacting the development of the Late Postrera/Apante crops in Honduras and Nicaragua and eventually causing a delay in the start of Primera 2024. 
  • The purchasing power of poor households in the region will be varied, as employees in the manufacturing, agriculture and construction industries will not see an increase compared to the previous year due to a depression in their activity and the impact of El Niño. At the same time, households in the tourism industry will see an improvement due to a recovery in the flow of tourists, especially during the end-of-year and Easter celebrations. Meanwhile, prices for food and services such as water and energy will remain above those reported in 2022 and the five-year average, given the existing climate difficulties. 
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