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Yemen: Qat and Water

In: Structural Inequality

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  • Roger D. Norton

    (Texas A&M University)

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Ancient Yemen’s terraced slopes captured rainfall off the Red Sea and Yemen became a land of gardens, Happy Arabia to Romans. But Yemen may be the first country to run out of water. Conversations in Yemen revealed the origins of the crisis: abrupt introduction of a new pumping technology, subsidies for pumps and the energy driving them, banning imports of water-intensive crops, the national habit of chewing the thirsty crop qat, and institutional weakness for water management. Cities have minimal water so farmers benefit from inequality in access to water, but the vanishing water will hit farming hardest. Inequality will reverse abruptly.

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  • Roger D. Norton, 2022. "Yemen: Qat and Water," Springer Books, in: Structural Inequality, chapter 1, pages 1-34, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-08633-5_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08633-5_1
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