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Emmanuel Himoonga paced his dry field, picking up stalks of maize that had been bleached almost to bone white.

The 61-year-old chief of Shakumbila, a mainly agricultural community of about 7,000 people roughly 70 miles west of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, had seen droughts before.

But since 2010 they have been happening once every three to four years, instead of every five years. And, Himoonga said, he had never experienced a situation this bad before.

“When you look at the last rainy season, I have never seen anything like it in my life. Every crop we planted in these fields failed,” he said. “I have lost everything.”

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