ARTICLE: Lush Land Dries Up, Withering Kenya's Hopes, By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, New York Times, September 7, 2009

If climate change predictions are accurate, it'll be a much tougher future for much of sub-Saharan Africa.

Will the resulting violence matter globally? No.

But it will matter to the locals, and those dependent on rising connectivity to these places--like rising Asia.

That's why this strategic dialogue should start now.