Sentence examples for face drought from inspiring English sources
The overall goals of this study are to understand physical adaptation measures taken by farmers and the impacts of household and community assets on farmers' adaptation when they face drought.
The different water use strategies adopted by arbutus and sage plants to face drought stress were also confirmed by the analysis of leaf water potential isotherms.
A general reduction of cell lumen in the north-south direction was observed, most likely as an adaptive strategy to face drought and reduce the risk of xylem cavitation.
Children face drought in Eritrea and Ethiopia GENEVA/NEW YORK/ADDIS ABABA/ASMARA, 6 December, 2002 - UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy today warned that drought-related illnesses in the Horn of Africa are severely affecting the population, and that women and children, "are already in the teeth of this destructive drought".
Now, it seems, the region faces drought every two or three years.
Facing drought, floods and changing rainfall patterns, dishing up enough servings to meet growing demand will become increasingly challenging.
Now, as the country faces drought and starvation, Mr. Mugabe has resumed a program to strip white farmers of their land without compensation.
They figured that when New Jersey faced drought, they would have a competitive advantage because they could irrigate from Long Island's vast underground aquifer.
The debate over the project reflects a concern throughout the Mediterranean, which is now facing drought and scorching heat waves: can a resort built on fragile land be ecologically sound?
As much of sub-Saharan Africa faces drought, a failed harvest and hunger, the organisation has come to recognise the urgency of investment in global agricultural productivity and, after two decades of neglect, the importance of governments in delivering it.
As one of the most important crops and the main food source for the world population, wheat can have a complex and powerful reflect facing drought stress.
