Sentence examples for disastrous drought from inspiring English sources

Kedi decries the salt-soaked soils of home, ruined for crops, and the disastrous drought.

All summer, a disastrous drought caused every crop to fail except for the new strains of cassava.

The great rabbi Akiba (c. ad 40 135) is said to have composed the basic verses on a Jewish fast day to relieve a disastrous drought.

The model is Ethiopia, where in the wake of disastrous drought in the 1980s farmers have planted 2.5 million acres of trees among their crops in Tigray province alone.

Although the problems faced by the exiled family include a disastrous drought and an invasion of locusts (thrown in late in the movie as a dramatic afterthought), the sense of hardship and struggle conveyed by the film remains muted.

The conflict aggravated a disastrous drought and famine between 1984 and 1985, which the government tried to ameliorate by forcibly relocating hundreds of thousands of peasants to well-watered regions in the south and west.

Managers cannot always look outside the box in order to prepare for threats; there is simply too little extra time to worry about century storms and disastrous droughts.

A new analysis of drought in Jordan – one of the world's most water-poor countries – suggests that without alternate water sources, better land use and improved water-sharing agreements, the country could face a future of potentially disastrous droughts.

It was badly affected by Muslim uprisings of 1864 75; by droughts and famines of the 1870s, which decimated the population; and by the almost equally disastrous droughts of the 1920s and '30s, which depopulated whole counties in the area.

Studying the lichens growing in the high East African mountains, for example, may yield a better understanding of the continent's climatic trends, and a knowledge of past conditions in the Sahel might help explain what influence natural phenomena have had on the disastrous droughts of the region since the late 1960s.

Rebellions in the 1960s and 1990s, together with disastrous droughts in the mid-1970s and 1980s, which all but wiped out the animal herds on which the nomads depended for survival, shattered the Tuaregs' desert idyll and millennial isolation, forcing thousands of their young men to leave home in search of work.