Due to a lack of rainfall in drought conditions, the maize in this field is severely stunted and portends crop failure. Zimbabwe

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Maize should be 2 metres tall but due to drought is a shrivelled 30 centimetres Zimbabwe

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Location: Zimbabwe. Africa
Photo credit: © Neil Cooper / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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