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acute food shortages would make growing food more lucrative than growing khat. there is probably something else going on
by voldacar 7y ago
acute food shortages would make growing food more lucrative than growing khat. there is probably something else going on
- Mediterraneo10 7y agoKhat suppresses hunger, so if you don’t have enough food to eat, you just chew more khat. Also, stable food production requires multiple growing cycles. It is possible for short-term famines to be created by farmers' choice of more lucrative products. While food production can be restored over subsequent years, that is cold comfort to all the people who had to do without in the interim.
- zshrdlu 7y agoWhich part of Africa specifically have you observed this?