2023–2024 South American drought

[3] In the central regions of Brazil, temperatures reached 1 °C above the 1.5 °C average global increase, resulting in large amounts of rain evaporating before it could move deeper into the soil.

[4] Water shortages and persistent droughts were widespread in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, and inland Peru, causing significant agricultural hardships and crop failures, worsening food insecurity, and financial instability.

[5] From July to September 2023, Brazil's National Center for Monitoring and Alerts for Natural Disasters indicated that records for the lowest rainfall in over 40 years were reached in eight Brazilian states.

Long queues of rural residents formed on the banks of the Amazon River and its tributaries to gather humanitarian aid due to drought conditions killing crops and fish.

In November 2023, Bolivia announced a state of emergency in fifty-one municipalities due to environmental damage and resulting economic and material losses, with its Ministry of Civil Defense estimating that more than 4,900 families were impacted by drought-exacerbated wildfires.

[5] From November 2023 to January 2024, Colombia faced six droughts, 323 wildfires, water scarcity in sixty-nine municipalities, and roughly 45,000 people who were directly affected by adverse environmental conditions.

An Action Against Hunger survey found that among almost 2,000 households, 63.4% ofthem suffered from income losses due to El Niño-influenced climate impacts which included drought and water scarcity, mainly in rural areas dependent on agriculture.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that an estimated 9.3 million people in Colombia were exposed to "increased temperature, precipitation variability, and food and water shortages" and their associated risks and consequences.