Crucial farm jobs dry up in drought-stricken Morocco

  • 2 months ago
In the sun-baked village of Dar Bel Amri, north of Morocco's capital Rabat, land workers wait idly by the roadside for farm work made scarce by a six-year drought. "There's nothing for us. I'm 66, is anyone going to offer me a job? No," says farmer Benaissa Kaaouan.
Transcript
00:30We can't work in the dry season.
00:34There is no work.
00:37We go out in the summer to work.
00:42That's all.
01:01Look, they're building a bathroom.
01:15If I were here, you wouldn't see me.
01:18We don't have drinking water.
01:21We're lost.
01:24We're farmers, we're craftsmen.
01:26We can't work in the dry season.
01:30We can't work in the dry season.
01:33We can't work in the dry season.

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