When floods disrupt transport routes or extreme heat affects agricultural production in Sri Lanka, the immediate impacts are often visible but another crisis frequently unfolds more quietly in the weeks that follow. Daily wage workers lose income almost immediately when work stops. Informal labourers face prolonged instability with few financial protections. Plantation workers experience disruptions to already fragile livelihoods. Families take on debt to absorb sudden income loss. Migration pressures increase as local opportunities shrink.

For many households, climate shocks are not isolated environmental events. They are economic turning points.

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