[Clive]

It is axiomatic.

Famines are man-made.

Always.

Malawi selling off its grain reserve is a case in point.

Zimbabwe evicting the commercial farmers and their workers is another case in point

We have known since the first nomadic farmers slashed and burned a patch of ground to plant grain to be harvested when they came around again that agriculture is subject to climate variations.

That is why we have grain reserves.

It is also why we invented irrigation.

Zimbabwe is experiencing an unusual "drought". It is one in which the irrigation dams still have their impounded water because there were not enought crops planted for them to irrigate.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Famines are man-made.

Bump!