Khat, an amphetamine-like stimulant leaf chewed by up to 90% of adult Yemeni males, consumes 40% of the nation's scarce water resources and half its arable land, generating heavily taxed market revenues that fund the Houthi war economy at the expense of vital food agriculture.
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