Bloomberg Businessweek Europe - November 04, 2019

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Bloomberg Businessweek � Climate November 4, 2019

Kalaluka Kalima, a 32-year-old

environmental engineer, works

for a charity in Mwandi, a

town of 4,000 in southwestern

Zambia. While richer countries

produce the greenhouse gases

that cause global warming,

Zambia and its neighbors pay

the price: a total failure of this

year’s corn crop. “The farmers

harvested nothing,” he says.

Rice and vegetables typically

thrive on the fertile Barotse

floodplain, and cattle graze

on its grasses. Farmer

Lubinda Kawana says the

water should be neck-deep,

but this year it barely covers

his ankles—forcing ranchers

to sell their herds before the

worst of the dry season.

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Bloomberg Businessweek � Climate November 4, 2019

Kalaluka Kalima, a 32-year-old

environmental engineer, works

for a charity in Mwandi, a

town of 4,000 in southwestern

Zambia. While richer countries

produce the greenhouse gases

that cause global warming,

Zambia and its neighbors pay

the price: a total failure of this

year’s corn crop. “The farmers

harvested nothing,” he says.

Rice and vegetables typically
thrive on the fertile Barotse
floodplain, and cattle graze
on its grasses. Farmer
Lubinda Kawana says the
water should be neck-deep,
but this year it barely covers
his ankles—forcing ranchers
to sell their herds before the
worst of the dry season.