Collins Nzovu says country’s plight is foretaste of disasters that will increasingly afflict region as climate breakdown takes hold
Children fetch water using a wheelbarrow in Lilanda township in Lusaka. The rains failed in February and there is little prospect of saving the maize crop.Children fetch water using a wheelbarrow in Lilanda township in Lusaka. The rains failed in February and there is little prospect of saving the maize crop.
“What has happened this year is that we received well below the normal rainfall. This has been a crippling drought,” he said. “We’ve had a huge crop failure. A lot of people who depend on maize, who depend on agriculture for their very survival, face starvation and hunger.” People are reaching the end of their food stores, and importing from other countries in the region has become much harder as they too are feeling the impacts of the drought. Food supplies have come from Southhas a food surplus that it exports to neighbouring countries, including Malawi, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
Nzovu said the plight of Zambia was a foretaste of the disasters that would increasingly afflict the region as climate breakdown took hold. “Look at all the factors which will tell you there has really been a change in the climate. There is no doubt at all,” he said.
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