Sentence examples for cycles of drought from inspiring English sources

These cycles of drought are unlikely to change – but what has changed is the response.

India has been hammered by cycles of drought and flood, as withering heat parches the soil and torches glaciers in the Himalayas.

Building sustainable trading structures and introducing pastoralists to the cash economy should, Mulama hopes, ease them out of cycles of drought and food insecurity.

Rising temperatures and long cycles of drought interrupted by shorter, excessive bouts of rainfall increase the occurrence of pests and disease, seriously threatening Arabica coffee.

Before I left, the laughter was replaced by seriousness as the women explained the harshness of their lives in a country where the cycles of drought are accelerating.

Average annual precipitation is scant, about 13 inches (330 mm); the plains are subject to cycles of drought followed by periods of unusually heavy rainfall and flooding.

For African governments, fledgling large-scale farmers such as Wonani are key to becoming self-sufficient in food and breaking the cycles of droughts and famine that plague the continent.

In a country afflicted by severe cycles of droughts and floods and peasant rebellions that often resulted from them, control of water has always been important to Chinese rulers.

Johnnie Carson, the assistant secretary for African affairs at the State Department, said the American government was trying to alleviate the longstanding cycles of droughts and famines with a program called Feed the Future, which intends to raise agricultural productivity and help "populations in adapting to increasing erratic weather patterns".

The world is witnessing implications of reduced forest cover in the form of vicious cycles of droughts and floods in different regions.

Some three-month-old plantlets were subjected to three cycles of drought-stress using the dry-down and recharge technique, as described by Liu and Dickmann [ 46].