This June, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, we experienced one of the worst, wettest, stretches of summer weather that any of us can remember. By the end of the month, Boston.com was even jokingly providing instructions on how to build an ark.

But as terrible as we had it here, halfway across the world, Uganda was having it even worse. Instead of praying for a bit of sun each morning, the Ugandan rainmakers held sheep sacrifices in an effort to appease the rain god, Ekipe. This has been the fourth consistent year that there has not been enough rain for Nassapir’s harvests – and millions will go hungry. While the locals describe the weather as “very strange”, others would identify it global climate change.

Global aid agency Oxfam reports that all over the world, impoverished communities are being hit hard by the effects of climate change. Farmers from 15 different country’s in Africa, Asia and Latin America have reported seasons to be shrinking in number and variety. Because there is not international funds to help these communities cope with the challenges climate change will bring, millions of the world’s poorest people will soon find themselves in an even tougher situation.

While the United States is certainly not an impoverished nation, this does not mean that American citizens need not worry about the reality of bad harvests reaching our shores as well. With the layering problems of water scarcity, climate changes, and the economic crisis, U.S. Fields, too, are going dry.