Sentence examples for crop shortfall from inspiring English sources

Now, with key reserves of many commodities at or near record lows, World Bank President Robert Zoellick has said the world is "one shock away" — a major crop shortfall in a large nation, a run of bad weather — from a serious food crisis.

The result is an agricultural crisis of wasted water, inefficient production and incipient crop shortfalls.

In some cases these were catastrophic, all the more so since they followed similarly dramatic crop shortfalls in the previous year.

Only later do markets realize that crop production shortfalls are substantial and long lasting, and will reduce inventories even further.

The experts said Africa could face a 23% shortfall in crop yields due to insufficient water supplies, while cereal imports will have to more than triple to 35 million tons in the next 23 years to meet demand, increasing reliance on aid.

Idi Sahirou, Chief of Dan Neino village in Niger's Maradi region, recalls the villagers' lives after last year's severe drought led to alarming shortfalls in crop and pasture production.

Evidence of crop damage and an expected shortfall in food-grain availability may make matters even worse, he notes.

In a new joint report, the World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization said that North Korea, even after substantial imports, would have a shortfall in staple crops — mostly rice, grains and soybeans — of more than half a million tons.

There was no shortfall in the 1968 crop as production slightly exceeded total de mand.

The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said millers were expected to import 2m tonnes of mostly German wheat to make up for a 13% shortfall in the homegrown crop.

But bumper crops in India and Pakistan should help offset a shortfall in Thai exports.The excellent harvest in India convinced politicians, once fearful of food inflation, to lower protectionist defences.