Sentence examples for regular droughts from inspiring English sources

Add malaria and regular droughts and you start to get a sense of why so many people here are so desperately poor.

The government still owns the farmland, a vestige of the country's socialist days, and leaders have done little to diversify the economy or push long-term development projects that might allow the poor to survive the regular droughts.

Hounded since the mid-twentieth century by regular droughts, low literacy rates, and extreme wealth inequality, the Northeast Region has long been the target of class and race-marked denigration by conservative, center-right and far-right commentators based in the South and Southeast, Brazil's more economically prosperous regions.

Severe and regular droughts affect mainly eastern India, northeast Thailand and parts of Myanmar and Laos.

The poorest and most vulnerable communities are hardest hit by regular droughts because they depend on livestock for milk, meat, and money.

Considering that the bulk of water supplies consumed in this community are imported from the Colorado River and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, re-imagining our personal landscapes to fit within the context of the state's regular droughts will make for an important exercise in regional self-sufficiency.

The crunch came in the context of an intensifying and increasingly regular drought cycle linked to climate change.

The region is characterised by highly variable rainfall, regular drought, poor infrastructure and isolation from major urban centres, including the national capital, Nouakchott.

The unusual weather events are occurring against the backdrop of more than half of California being under the most severe level of drought for the first time since the federal government began issuing regular drought reports in the late 1990s.

Regular drought results from El Niño climate conditions and low-lying islands are particularly susceptible to extended dry periods.

One of the factors that could explain this observation is that more of the regions' population is engaged in subsistence farming which is mainly rain fed but due to regular drought and erratic rainfall patterns their harvest is not always sufficient to take them throughout the year.