Irrigated India remains lush during months when much of rain-dependent India turns barren.
His rain-dependent crops were failing anyway, and he hoped to start a stationery shop in a near by town with the money.
Others blame tiny smallholdings and insecure land tenures as one of the key reasons that millions of Ethiopian farmers do not move beyond rain-dependent subsistence.
The S-form is distributed across sub-Saharan Africa and breeds mostly in association with rain-dependent pools and temporary puddles.
Whereas An. gambiae typically breeds in small temporary rain-dependent pools and puddles, An. funestus exploits large permanent or semi-permanent bodies of water containing emergent vegetation.
Mopti is associated with semi-permanent sites such as rice fields, Savanna with rain-dependent sites, and Bamako with rock pools at the margins of the Niger River in southern Mali and Guinea (Figure 1).
Seasonal climate fluctuations in regions such as the flood-prone Ganges basin and the rain-dependent semi-arid tropics make for agrarian lifestyles fraught with risk and food insecurity [ 4, 46, 47].
Conversely, the molecular S form of this malaria vector appears mainly during the wet season, because these mosquitoes breed mostly in puddles created by rains and in other rain-dependent larval habitats.
M-form larvae prevail in areas with more permanent breeding sites (hence with higher predator pressure), whereas the S-form predominates in temporary rain-dependent breeding sites, perhaps due to a superior competitive ability where predation pressure is lower (Gimonneau et al. 2012).
In Burkina Faso, larvae of the M form are more prevalent in larger anthropogenic longer-lasting habitats such as artificial lakes and rice fields, whereas the S form predominates in rain-dependent smaller ephemeral habitats such as puddles and road ruts [ 37, 38].
