Al-Qadarif (AFP) – In Sudan’s breadbasket of Gedaref, farmers are battling both drought and soaring production costs as they try to salvage this year’s harvest. Across the country, farmland that could feed the world’s largest hunger crisis many times over lies fallow. The powerful El Nino climate pattern strengthening in the Pacific Ocean, which impacts winds and rains across the world, has delayed crucial rains and led water levels in the life-giving Nile to drop precipitously.
