The Taliban have seized control of an Afghanistan that doesn’t have enough food for its people. In a normal year, Afghanistan’s river basins would be bursting with life during harvest season. But not now, says Kaustubh Devale, with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization in Kabul. Devale tells host Marco Werman that Afghanistan is in its second drought in four years and more than 10 million Afghans are facing acute food insecurity.
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