KENITRA, Morocco (AP) — Golden fields of wheat no longer produce the bounty they once did in Morocco. A six-year drought has imperiled the country's entire...
has imperiled the country's entire agriculture sector, including farmers who grow cereals and grains used to feed humans and livestock.
Belhoussni's plight is familiar to grain farmers throughout the world confronting a hotter and drier future. Climate change isIn North Africa, among the regions thought of as most vulnerable to climate change, delays to annual rains and inconsistent weather patterns have pushed the growing season later in the year and made planning difficult for farmers.
"When we say crisis, this means that you have to import more," he said. “We are in a country where drought has become a structural issue." The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization ranked Morocco as the world's sixth-largest wheat importer this year, between Turkey and Bangladesh, which both have much bigger populations.
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