Imagine you are a farmer who relies on selling crops at the local market to support your family’s livelihood and children’s education. It’s spring, and you are ready to plant for the next season. Just before planting, you receive an early warning from local news and weather services predicting that this year’s El Niño-induced drought will be the worst in decades.  

What do you do?  

A collage of different people and places featured in the documentary Africa’s Parched Reality: The story of Zambia