Kenya is a land rich in corn and wheat farm . But last calendar week , Kenya ’s political science warn that wretched harvest yields meant millions would starve . This function shows what went wrong with growing time of year .
It was n’t conditions that destroyed this year ’s crop – it was political tempestuousness . Farmers empty their bailiwick to flee for safety , and by the prison term they returned it was so late in the season that corn could n’t be planted . And other crop foundered too .
This satellite photo from NASA shows all the farm domain of Kenya that have stand as a result of violence after the election . According to NASA ’s Earth Observatory :

This epitome , which shows vegetation weather condition between January 1 and January 10 , 2009 , shows part of the reason for the failed crops . Developing drought settle over eastern Kenya , slowing plant growth . domain in which plants were growing less smartly than average are dark-brown , while areas in which plant were growing well are green . rain during the “ short rains ” time of year , which typically runs from September or October through November or December , did not render the wet mature crops required in eastern Kenya , and as a event , the end - of - year harvest was short . By January , briefly after most crops were harvested , the remaining flora was clear in bad shape liken to normal . . .
Corn , the master crop , is typically planted when the long - time of year rains start out between mid - February and mid - April . But in late 2007 and former 2008 , post - election violence shoot through Kenya , touch on much of the grain basket region . In many regions , sodbuster evacuate to camps and did not return until tardy April . By then , it was too late to constitute a successful harvest , say the Foreign Agricultural Service . Some Farmer planted a late Indian corn crop , and others embed straw or else of corn because straw has a shorter growing season . Altogether , the season shortened by ferocity leave in a small harvest in the east , while drouth reduced the harvest in the west , said the Foreign Agricultural Service .
This paradigm , which looks so abstract with its greens and browns , offers a window into a future tense where fierceness begets furiousness . Political violence led to craw failure , which will chair to more violence as multitude begin to starve .

SOURCES :
NASA Earth Observatory
million Risk Starvation[via AP ]

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