Climate change burns Chad's cotton farmers

By Agence France-Presse

May 06, 2024 12:20 am

KAGTAOU, Chad: Declador Rimleldeoudje waded through his field between thousands of stalks he hopes will become a bumper crop of cotton — knowing that Chad's white gold has a future as unpredictable as the rains.

For decades, cotton has sustained his region of southern Chad. But the prized crop is now under threat.

Chadian farmer Declador Rimleldeoudje clears land with a machete before planting seeds in Kagtaou village, some sixty kilometres away from Moundou, on April 26, 2024. In southern Chad, cotton farmers are hit hard by climate change and the conflict between herders and farmers, some of whom feel abandoned by the N'Djamena government and are now pinning their hopes on opposition leader and presidential candidate Succes Masra in the Chadian presidential election on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Yasmine CANGA-VALLES / AFP)

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