AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoClimate & Food Security: The World Food Programme warns intensifying El Niño could push 49 million more people into acute hunger by end-2027, with Central America hit hardest as droughts and sudden floods disrupt rain-fed farming. Water & Conservation Funding: WTM London’s record-safe-water donation is funding a Watershed Restoration Programme in Nicaragua, aiming to help watersheds store more water, improve soil, and support farming communities via local partner El Porvenir. Mining Pressure on Land & Water: A new investigation says Nicaragua’s gold boom is driving mining concessions into protected areas and Indigenous territory, with pollution, deforestation, and threats to clean drinking water and subsistence farming. Renewables Push: IRENA opened a funding call for renewable energy projects across Central America and the Caribbean, including Nicaragua, prioritizing proposals before Sept. 1 for solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, clean transport, and related energy infrastructure. Governance & Elections: Nicaragua’s National Assembly began consultations on constitutional reform that would bar parties tied to foreign financing or alleged coup activity—critics say it further tightens executive control, with environmental impacts likely to follow as land-use decisions become harder to challenge.
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