Afghanistan: Erratic Swings in Weather Patterns Add to Afghans' Woes

Aug 9, 2019 | Shadi Khan Saif, Anadolu Agency
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The heated global debate over climate change hardly sounds relevant to war-ravaged Afghanistan, but the mountainous country is quietly bearing the brunt of its effects.The backbone of the Afghan economy, agriculture, has been worst hit amid erratic swings in weather patterns causing long and unusual drought spells and then sudden and untimely rains, leaving poorly equipped and untrained Afghan farmers and shepherds hopeless.