KAGTAOU, Chad: Declador Rimleldeoudje waded through his field between thousands of stalks he hopes will become a bumper crop of cotton — knowing that Chad's white gold has a future as unpredictable as the rains.

For decades, cotton has sustained his region of southern Chad. But the prized crop is now under threat.

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