Sentence examples similar to rain dependency from inspiring English sources
Cacao has peculiar rain-forest dependency.
This should be aggravated because of the low adaptive capacity of the rural poor and their full dependency on rain-fed agriculture for their livelihoods.
Besides agro-ecological variations, oscillations in AIV production in rural farmers are prompted by a high dependency on rain-fed agriculture (Nekesa and Meso 1997).
One such example can be found in Benin, West Africa where solar-powered drip irrigation has enabled several hundred women farmers in Kalalé District, a poor, arid region in the northern part of the country, to grow high-value fruits and vegetables year-round, thus overcoming their historical dependency on rain-fed agriculture.
The impact of climate change is more likely to have an adverse effect in the developing countries due to high dependency on climate sensitive livelihood like rain-fed agriculture, water, and forestry (Moorhead 2009).
These assembly-line meat factories consume enormous amounts of energy, pollute water supplies, generate significant greenhouse gases and require ever-increasing amounts of corn, soy and other grains, a dependency that has led to the destruction of vast swaths of the world's tropical rain forests.
The main factors that are responsible for the increased dependency on groundwater resources are, limited availability of surface water and failure of monsoonal rains.
(See chemical dependency).
It causes chronic dependency.
