That's entirely the fault of their inept and corrupt administration there.

ClumsyPilot · on Feb 3, 2023

United Nations says it's "first climate change famine".

Why are you blaming administration? I am not sure how corrupt they are, but how do you deal with drought in a country that has GDP per capital of $520? Like you can't afford to do much with that.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1103712

eru · on Feb 9, 2023

> I am not sure how corrupt they are, but how do you deal with drought in a country that has GDP per capital of $520?

That's partially a function of the corruption and silly practices. Eg they are spending tax dollars (that they don't really have) to subsidies fuel.

ajross · on Feb 3, 2023

Well, and also a big drought. Economies (and weather) are indeed unstable in general. But per the upthread hypothesis there's no particular instability in the food supply caused by fertilizer/energy/covid disruption that seems notable. We've been here before and we'll be here again.