Droughts alone don't cause famines, but when you have droughts becoming more extensive and becoming longer than that makes the situation worse. So samalia produces much less of its own food than it used to because of a lack of investment in agriculture. And what that has meant is that samalia is increasingly dependent on imports. Samalia now imports really 80 % of its cereals, including most of its staples such as rice, pastor and cooking oil. That means that samalia has been left extremely vulnerable to global price rises. It's largely this is down to an unfortunate interaction between climatic conditions and bad domestic governents.

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