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Climate-related farmer suicides surging in eastern Kenya
alertnet.org ^
| July 12, 2010
| Gitonga Njeru
Posted on 07/13/2010 4:00:07 PM PDT by PROCON
KITUI, Kenya (AlertNet) - Eastern Kenya is seeing a surge in suicides after farmers hit by unusual weather and unable to repay loans are taking their lives, police say.
As many as 2,000 people in Kenya's Eastern Province, many of them farmers, have committed suicide in the past year, up from a normal suicide rate of 300 per year in the area, Kenyan police records show.
The deaths come as eastern Kenya has experienced extremely poor crop harvests as result of prolonged drought and unusual rainfall at harvest time, which has led to contamination of maize harvests with aflatoxins, produced by fungus that grows in wet grain.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechangehoax; globalwarming
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:00:12 PM PDT
by
PROCON
To: PROCON
I am glad the farmers here in Southern Md. don’t copmmit suicide over crop failures. The drought here this year would have them dropping like flies.
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:02:49 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: PROCON
Sounds like they need to adapt and grow something better suited to the weather.
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:03:38 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:04:32 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Independence Day + 9, Let's see how long it lasts!)
To: PROCON
Personally, I blame Bush.
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:04:46 PM PDT
by
grandpa jones
(Obama must be exhausted, having to tote that giant brain of his around all the time.)
To: PROCON
Aflactoxins....
Some kind of poisonous duck?
;-/
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:04:50 PM PDT
by
snarkbait
(<<For Rent>>)
To: PROCON
No wonder algore needs expensive massages. poor guy.
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:04:58 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: PROCON
Article mentions weather, but does not prove the climate has changed.
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:06:42 PM PDT
by
omega4179
(www.jdforsenate.com)
To: PROCON
If there is no village, can there be an idiot?
zero sidesteps the Kenyan birth issue again ... no witnesses.
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:07:14 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: grandpa jones
Personally, I blame Bush. Darn, forgot the Bush's Fault Alert!
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:07:26 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Independence Day + 9, Let's see how long it lasts!)
To: omega4179
Article mentions weather, but does not prove the climate has changed. Exactly, I post this for amusement!
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:09:26 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Independence Day + 9, Let's see how long it lasts!)
To: snarkbait
Aflactoxins.... Some kind of poisonous duck? LOL!!
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:10:57 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Independence Day + 9, Let's see how long it lasts!)
To: PROCON; Desdemona; grey_whiskers; proud_yank; Horusra; Thunder90; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; ...
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:11:47 PM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
("Release the Second Chakra !!!!!!!" ... Al Gore, 10/24/06)
To: knarf
zero sidesteps the Kenyan birth issue again ... no witnesses. Hmmmm, a new conspiracy theory?!
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:16:03 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Independence Day + 9, Let's see how long it lasts!)
To: PROCON
I don’t know about a CT, but where’s zero for his homey’s bailout(s) ?
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:18:50 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: PROCON; cripplecreek
...some farmers and experts blaming corruption in the distribution of relief food... others citing a failure to crack down on sellers of substandard and infertile seed... seed companies that may have sold inappropriate, poor quality or outdated seed... allowing companies to sell farmers fake seeds... Some of the seeds in the Kenyan economy were developed more than 20 years ago" and have been stored in warehouses all that time... The problem now is that the seeds, even if fertile, are no longer appropriate for changing climate conditions... So they've been selling the farmers bad seed when it isn't the wrong seeds for the conditions.
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:28:19 PM PDT
by
marron
To: PROCON
Ummmmm......if they are in a drastic drought, how can they have wet grain?
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:29:18 PM PDT
by
RC2
To: PROCON
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:37:33 PM PDT
by
JPG
(Mr. Gore, or is it Mr. Stone or Mr. Woody? Whatever, you're under arrest.)
To: JPG
Goreacide. Frankly, Algore is a world criminal and charlatan!
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posted on
07/13/2010 4:46:40 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Independence Day + 9, Let's see how long it lasts!)
To: RC2
Articles mentions heavy rainfall at harvest time.
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posted on
07/15/2010 3:33:41 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(70 mph shouldn't be a speed limit; it shoud be a mandate!)
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