Sentence examples for lead to crop failure from inspiring English sources

Rainfall can vary considerably from one year to the next, so those lands may experience droughts that often lead to crop failure.

New diseases may lead to crop failure and reduced food production.

Weather, for example, influences mortality through social pathways – unfavourable weather conditions might lead to crop failure and poverty, which in turn cause malnutrition and high mortality rates especially in young children.

And that also obviously, bad climate episodes lead to crop failures and food price spikes.

The droughts could have led to crop failure and a rise in infectious disease, and both problems would have been exacerbated by the density of the population, Buckley says.

The biggest city in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica depended on maize and beans to keep its 100,000 residents fed, but the unfortunate combination of low rainfall and high altitude in the highlands of central Mexico led to crop failure all too often.

Successive droughts have led to crop failure and starvation, while flooding in several nations – including Zambia, one of the most deforested countries on the planet – has caused death and destruction.

Frequent cold winters and cool, wet summers led to crop failures and famines over much of northern and central Europe.

This drought led to crop failures, forcing the migration of up to 1.5 million people from rural to urban areas.

Frequent cold winters and cool, wet summers ruined wine harvests and led to crop failures and famines over much of northern and central Europe.

Canny Benjamin Franklin had posited the link between the eruption of Laki in Iceland in 1783, and subsequent events – a downward spiral of dank and weird weather in western Europe that led to crop failures, famine and popular revolt.