The severe drought in Morocco is endangering the export of fruits and vegetables overseas and has already resulted in record demands for wheat imports, given that last year's wheat yields dropped to one ton per hectare (2.5 acres), the lowest harvest ever.

Morocco was hit by the worst drought in three decades, and one farmer's 25-foot-deep well has already dried up. Mohamed Sadiri is now attempting to grow barley as he is one of the 1.2 million Moroccan grain farmers most negatively impacted by climate change.

“We haven’t had a good year since 2000, and the last three years were the worst,” Sadiri said in his town of Ezzhiliga. “All we can do now is pray for God’s mercy.”

As major shippers like France and Russia are experiencing harvest failures as well, the nation is anxious to import record amounts of wheat, and less of its fruits and vegetables will be seen on shop shelves in Europe, the US, and the rest of Africa.

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Michael Baum, acting deputy director general of the nonprofit International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, explained that annual production of wheat, durum wheat, and barley fell to three million tons in the North African nation due to consecutive droughts, from 10 million tons during a wet season three years before.

As a result of the drought, severe weather caused the loss of an estimated 200,000 jobs in rural areas last year which contributed to an increase in the unemployment rate to 13%.

The current wheat crop is expected to yield fewer than 2.5 million tons, the lowest amount since the global food crisis in 2007 – a lot less than what the national budget depends on.

Last year, a study showed that more than half of the world's greatest lakes and reservoirs are disappearing, threatening humanity's future water security, with climate change and unsustainable usage to blame.