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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Milexi Rodríguez

I lost my entire livelihood to El Nino once. This time I’m fighting back

Like every farmer in Honduras, I do not need models or forecasts to tell me what impact a powerful El Niño can have.

I have lived this before. In my small hometown of Olanchito alone, the extreme El Niño of 2023 brought a drought that killed more than a thousand cattle, mine among them. After years of working towards my own land, starting with just one cow, I had to start again from scratch.

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