The scarcity of fresh water has forced farmers to use brackish water from shallow underground sources, which helps to overcome drought and increase crop yields but also increases the risk of soil salinization.
Recent work has also emphasized that a diversity of grazing management practices, that is, in terms of stocking rate and periods, can enhance ability to overcome drought events (Sabatier et al. 2012).
Is it better to connect more homes to the water network or to enhance water storage capacity in order to overcome droughts?
At a point in human history when natural predations should be less of a reason to flee one's home ground increasingly we have the means to overcome droughts or infestations, and global warming (if true) isn't yet a reason to uproot millions are heading to crowded cities or across deserts or oceans to reach more promising lands.
"It's also the symbol of life and the hope to overcome the drought".
The above arguments, furthermore, suggest that mobility may not have brought the herdsmen from outside what they had expected to find in Kitengela-a refuge to enable their livestock overcome the drought.
In the first of three excerpts from her powerful new book, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, Nina Munk takes us to a one of the most inhospitable places on earth, a remote village on the border of Somalia and Kenya where each day is a struggle to overcome hunger, drought, and disease.
Data recorded in the present study suggest that arbutus plants could overcome intense drought conditions and, then, might be more suitable for Mediterranean green roofs than to sage plants.
In four years, the so-called Winter Games move to Sochi, Russia, where the home country will try to overcome its medal drought.
The Facebook social reengineering has been all the media rage, and whether Twitter can overcome the innovation drought they created by starving their developers is an open question.
Considerable breeding efforts have been made across the globe to overcome the abiotic (drought, salinity, heat) and biotic (Helicoverpa, Fusarium wilt, Ascochyta blight) production constraints in chickpea.
