Sentence examples for frequency of droughts from inspiring English sources

A greater frequency of droughts and floods, the agency added, could be particularly bad for agriculture.

Others are new: changing family compositions because of HIV, increasing frequency of droughts and rapid fluctuations in international commodity prices.

With climate experts predicting an increase in the frequency of droughts, policymakers and business leaders are searching for innovative ways to cope.

With fears that climate change increases the frequency of droughts, the priority is to find ways of helping the Turkana use their livestock and land to build economically sustainable activities that will enable them to move away from aid dependency.

Encouraging as it is, the early response cannot mask the increasing frequency of droughts in the Sahel, which means communities are lurching from crisis to crisis with little time to recover from previous shocks.

Prolonged dry spells seem to be leaving aspen vulnerable to disease and insects, and climate change is expected to increase the frequency of droughts in the American West.

According to the Climate Risk & Adaptation Country Profile of Sri Lanka 2011, (GFDRR 2011) the frequency of drought increased from 1974 to 2004.

Approximately 70% of the frequency of drought belongs to the near normal drought category.

Areas with greater frequency of drought affected the sensitive agricultural sector (yield reduction).

Reports indicate global climate change to be the cause of such dramatic increase in the intensity and frequency of drought.

Recent warming and increasing frequency of drought events deepened the divergence in growth trends between low-elevation areas and stands at medium and high elevations.