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How climate change is driving emigration from Central America

  • Written by Miranda Cady Hallett, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights Center Research Fellow, University of Dayton
How climate change is driving emigration from Central AmericaA farmer carries firewood during the dry season in Nicaragua, one of the Central American countries affected by a recent drought.Neil Palmer for CIAT/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

Clouds of dust rose behind the wheels of the pickup truck as we hurtled over the back road in Palo Verde, El Salvador. When we got to the stone-paved part of the road, the driver...

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