Khat 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

Khat 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.