When it rains, it can flood; when rainfall is scarce, crops dry up.
But drinking water is scarce, crops are withering and the low flows along many rivers have affected hydroelectric plants, compounding widespread power shortages.
The guilt engendered by the exponentially multiplying instances of "No!" squeezed satisfaction from a now-scarce crop of yeses.
Yet it is becoming harder to find new farmland, water is increasingly scarce and crop-yield growth is slowing.
Assuming he makes it past the border guards, Mr. Gates is bringing the tubers -- some of them healthy, others rotten -- to Davos to underline a pitch for his foundation's efforts to eradicate hunger in places where food is scarce and crops are often blighted.
Global weather conditions associated with El Niño are posing a serious threat to millions of vulnerable people, particularly in rural communities, with scarce rainfall devastating crops and causing water shortages in some regions, while other parts of the world are seeing flooding caused by above-average precipitation.
They mainly turned to crops when wild fruit was scarce but pinched some crops including rice and maize whenever they were available.
These may be exactly the crops to which the state should be funneling its scarce water — high-value crops.
Tickets for this four-hour set (with Somne in support) are scarce, but returns are cropping up online.
Since the endophytic penetration of these isolates was not measured and the literature on the subject on perennial crops is scarce, it would be interesting to further look at this aspect of the relationship in future studies.
In my travels around the world, I have seen the heartache and pain in the eyes of parents who have lost a child and communities devastated because crops are scarce and disaster, conflict and climate change are impacting livelihoods.
