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I could understand if the majority of people migrating were farmers, but I haven't seen any statistics that would seem to indicate that is the case. Perhaps som

• mywittyname 7y ago
  It's not just farmers who are effected by crop failures. Loss of crops means an increase in food prices. And when people can't afford food, they tend to take action. What would you do if suddenly, food was either 10x as expensive, or even no longer available in your state? Acute food shortages have been the reality for Mexico & Central Americas for the past decade. There are many factors at play, but climate change is a a common threat to each of them. Crop failures and loss of arable land cause downstream effects which can result in political instability. Since the food price crisis of 2008, several regions all over the world have erupted in conflict. The Arab Spring was ignited by food shortages. The civil wars in Yemen and Sudan both broke out after severe droughts. The last Central American migration crisis that the US faced coincided with an El Nino drought in 2014.