Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Fueled by climate change, Zimbabwe's erratic harvests cause farmers with HIV to struggle
CNN ^ | February 13, 2019 | by Jacqui Thornton (D-CNN)

Posted on 02/13/2019 6:44:59 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Jemitias Denhere shakes his head as he explains why, despite being a specialist in soil management and crop production, he specializes in beef livestock.

The district agronomist -- plants specialist -- owns 27 hectares of land in the Mwenezi area of southern Zimbabwe, a particularly arid location. Here, farmers endure extreme weather challenges such as drought and flash flooding -- and, thus, some of the highest food shortages.

His cattle can exist on the little grass that remains during dry times, but to produce crops without irrigation is risky -- so he decided against it. "One year, you win; one year, you will fail; repeat," he said.

But over the past five years, the situation has become worse.

One of the rising uncertainties climate change is bringing to the country: The rains have come much later, with the November rainy season beginning as late as January -- and when it comes, there's less of it, sometimes falling for just one day.

"We're experiencing the worst style of drought. If we receive rains, it will be like a cyclone: very violent, too windy. Very erratic. So you cannot bank on it. Things are changing every day."

"It's clear that people are feeling increased uncertainty about the weather," said Maarten van Aalst, director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, which advises the Red Cross globally. But he adds that while it's known that climate change is bringing more heat and rising risk of drought to this area, there is no clear scientific evidence about changes in hail or strong winds -- mainly because researchers don't have the data.

But the consequences of such extreme weather go even further, beyond livelihoods, hunger and education, to the population's health -- including HIV.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hiv; hoax; idiocy; jacquithornton; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; propaganda; smearmachine; socialism; zimbabwe
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-70 next last
To: Oldeconomybuyer

I wonder where the white farmer is that he stole the land from?


21 posted on 02/13/2019 6:56:52 AM PST by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many classes and agendas could they cram into one headline?..................


22 posted on 02/13/2019 6:57:17 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LIConFem

It’s my understanding that Zimbabwe killed or removed all of the actual (white) farmers and replaced them with black ignoramuses who know nothing (why does Maxine Waters pop into my mind) about farming. Is it possible that this might have an impact on the farming? Nah. It has to be “climate change.” You can’t blame socialism or the black racial hatred for whites or total incompetence of the blacks who run the country because that would show the emperor’s new clothes were really not there.


23 posted on 02/13/2019 6:57:22 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Vaquero

So GW causes AIDS? Huh, I thought it was something entirely different.


24 posted on 02/13/2019 6:57:27 AM PST by gibsonguy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: G Larry
"Kicking whites off their farms and allowing inexperienced farmers to take over has led to “Zimbabwe’s erratic harvests”!!!!"

BAZINGA!!!

25 posted on 02/13/2019 6:59:12 AM PST by Rebelbase
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: dynachrome
I wonder where the white farmer is that he stole the land from?

Probably decomposing in a hole someplace.

26 posted on 02/13/2019 6:59:14 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whoa that’s a lot packed into one crazy headline!


27 posted on 02/13/2019 6:59:31 AM PST by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change AND HIV!

A Twofer!

28 posted on 02/13/2019 6:59:37 AM PST by yesthatjallen
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Climate change, if were to exist, would be an effect, not a cause, and would not be able to cause anything.


29 posted on 02/13/2019 7:07:39 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fueled by climate change, Zimbabwe's erratic harvests cause migrant lesbian farmers with HIV to struggle


30 posted on 02/13/2019 7:08:05 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: from occupied ga

The farm operations, prior to Mugabe, were what you’d consider medium-sized operations, with some limited automation (tractors), and a large amount of physical labor. One of the curious things is that the medium sized farms, after Mugabe did his ‘trick’...no longer existed, and they were split into basic two-acre farms, where the former soldier was given his ‘reward’. He would grow just enough food for himself and his family, and that was it. So production level to feed Zimbabwe cities and the whole of Africa (that was their capability) dissolved in a matter of just two to three years. Curiously, if you go 1920s Soviet Union, they dissolved the medium sized farms by 1930, sending off the private farmers, and those properties left over....were no longer able to feed cities or regions as well. Exact copy.

Mugabe also dissolved the tourist trade. There were several major airlines which ran direct flights down to the country weekly. Mugabe and his entourage started to show up at the airports, and demand that the passenger jet ready for the 180-odd passengers to return to Europe....be reset for him and his entourage for a trip to France, or Italy. The VIP passengers/tourists? They would be rerouted, and instead of a 12-hour flight back to Europe....they ended up on a 36-hour route to return home. Tourists within a five year period made up their mind....deciding not to return, and the international airlines basically quit Zimbabwe.

Step by step, Mugabe dissolved the country.


31 posted on 02/13/2019 7:10:30 AM PST by pepsionice
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

32 posted on 02/13/2019 7:13:06 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is it “climate change”...or is it that Comrade Mugabe drove out all the white farmers that he somehow couldn’t murder?


33 posted on 02/13/2019 7:15:33 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Mitt Romney: Bringing Massachusetts Values To The Great State Of Utah.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: LIConFem

Well as long as women and children were not hit hardest.


34 posted on 02/13/2019 7:20:44 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

My brain feels like it got hit by a soggy washcloth after trying to read that title.


35 posted on 02/13/2019 7:21:50 AM PST by Ciaphas Cain (FreeRepublic.com is the most-used app on my iPhone.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Each time I think the AGW kooks can’t get any more absurd, they prove me wrong.

Of course they are not so much AGW kooks as communists using the hoax to seize control of society.


36 posted on 02/13/2019 7:25:06 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: budj

You clearly do not understand. The HIV that the HIV infected farmers have makes the HIV infected farmers struggle with their HIV moreso than the HIV that other HIV-infected people in the same district who work in other HIV-affected occupations struggle with. Their HIV.

Get it?


37 posted on 02/13/2019 7:25:08 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Pete Dovgan

These lying media stooges can save this BS story and run it concerning the starving South African farmers in a few years.


38 posted on 02/13/2019 7:26:34 AM PST by hardspunned
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change, farmers, Zimbabwe, and HIV all in the same headline.

I only wish Harambe had lived to see it.

39 posted on 02/13/2019 7:27:26 AM PST by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, come the F*** ON.

They killed or ran off all the skilled white farmers, looted the farms, and are back to square one. It wasn’t “Climate Change” who did all that.


40 posted on 02/13/2019 7:31:48 AM PST by dinodino
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-70 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson