TO GO WITH STORY KENYA-DROUGHT-FARMING BY Francois AUSSEILL A school boy wears worn out shoes as he carries a plastic bottle he filled with river water as he and others head back to school on August 17, 2009. In Kenya a bruising and recurring drought is driving huge numbers of subsistence farmers away from rural areas, where they are increasingly reliant on hand-outs, into congested slums. Many farmers in the region have already abandoned the land, at least temporarily, in favour of producing and selling charcoal or breaking stones in a nearby quarry for a local construction company. AFP PHOTO/Tony Karumba (Photo credit should read TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
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