land of plenty
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Zimbabwe is suffering from drought. A long long drought. The farms, the crops and the families are suffering immensely. El Nino causes the sea surface temperature to rise, which will cause torrential rains in some parts and incredibly long periods of drought in other parts. Corn cotton and tobacco were grown with pesticides. After a century of colonialism indigenous agriculture was banned. Now fathers are forced to travel to the urban areas to find work since they can make no money from farming. They leave their wives and children for long periods of time trying to make it better for them.
The high-class white farmers own eighty percent of the fertile soil. They have built irrigation systems to keep the crops watered and therefore have grown healthy crops that can be exported...