There is a weak U.S. dollar making commodities more expensive, Gross says, and there is rising globalization that is putting Starbucks stores around the globe, and depending on coffee beans from areas of the world where a droughts can upset an agricultural economy and affect an entire annual crop output.

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That's nearly half the population, who must be resettled before the winter rainy season if they are to plant the single annual rice crop.

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But such was their intensity -- Wajir, northeast Kenya received more rain in six weeks (402 millimeters) than the annual average -- it led to crop damage, says the WMO.

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This cream of the regional crop is not a ranking by size, like our annual Global 2000, or necessarily a measure of brand wattage.

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As a result of all this cash up for grabs, plus the opportunity for a mid-level Tour player to make a seven figure annual income without ever actually wining, there will always be a crop of new young guns following in the footsteps of McIlroy and Bubba Watson.

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