5 shares
A Jordanian woman harvests green beans at a farm in Ghor al-Haditha, around 80km south of the capital Amman, April 20, 2021. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)
GHOR AL-HADITHA, Jordan (AFP) — Ahmad Daoud surveyed his shriveled tomato plants near the Dead Sea in Jordan, where severe drought in what is already one of the world’s most water-deficient countries is hitting hard.
“Look at how the land thirsts,” he said, walking on cracked earth stained with white salt patches, waving at the five hectares (12 acres) of his farm. “Everything I planted… is dead.”
He inspected a tomato the size of a marble that had dried up before it ripened.