Sentence examples for harvest failures from inspiring English sources

China also provides much of the food that keeps North Koreans alive after repeated harvest failures.

Witchcraft persecutions peaked in Europe between 1560-1600 – decades of climate extremes including floods, freezes and harvest failures.

In Northern Bahr el Ghazal, last year's harvest failures have left 84% of the population food insecure, with many relying on leaves and palm fruits.

In her most tragic chapters – say, when poverty at home reached catastrophic levels after the harvest failures of 1795 – her eye for intimate domestic detail pins one irresistibly to the moment: As the allied campaigns in Europe crumbled, what good news there was came from far away: the British seized Ceylon and took Cape Town from the Dutch.

We collect qualitative evidence from annual administrative records to explore the mechanisms linking weather extremes to harvest failures and social distress.

8Migration and other types of off-farm employment are typical ways to reduce income risk both by diversifying income sources and because these sources of income may be less risky than agricultural income that is highly sensitive to harvest failures and price variations ( Taylor and Martin 2001 ).

The Kenyan government has declared a state of emergency saying 10 million people may face hunger and starvation after a poor harvest, crop failure, a lack of rain and rising food prices leading to a chronic state of food dependence which this latest drought has exacerbated.

But the 1963 harvest failure contributed to his downfall.

Finally, the first response of any adult faced with a harvest failure is to tighten her belt.

Thomas Robert Malthus was then at the height of his fame and the harvest failure seemed to bear out his pessimism.

If one of these happened today and we had global harvest failure for two, three, four years, then you are potentially looking at billions of deaths.