The answer to a controversial question on the British Broadcasting Corporation website, “Are Kenya ranch invasions driven by drought or politics?”,1 is a convoluted yes. This headline harkens back to my public health experiences in Africa and the concept of relative drought, which I coined as a global health educator to help to explain how the overuse of resources is a serious threat to quality of life and exacerbates the consequences of drought in low-income countries. The concept of relative drought implies far more than just a decline in precipitation.
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