Sentence examples for the drylands from inspiring English sources
noun
Land that is arid, but not so dry as to be a desert.
Head inland to discover the drylands - the Sertões and its unique culture.
The drylands of Ethiopia and Kenya sit in the heart of the drought zone, along with southern Somalia.
Compared to the city or the drylands around it, this semi-rural slice of Albuquerque can feel a world unto itself, dotted with small ranches and family farms.
Some of the men had walked for days to meet under the shade of the acacia trees in the drylands of southern Ethiopia.
Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands is a collection of essays edited by Roy Behnke and the veteran drylands expert Mike Mortimore.
The dramatic surge in South America owns a lot to the spread of farming into the drylands of the cerrado in Brazil, which was previously not cultivated.
We are already experiencing that deterioration of life support systems in the drylands of the Horn of Africa and parts of Central Asia.
"One of the greatest and most unexpected expansions of conservation as a form of land use has been among community-owned lands in the drylands of southern and eastern Africa," said Dr Max Graham, founder of Space for Giants.
The drylands have also benefited from an expansion of fruit and grain farming and of light industry, says Gustavo Maia Gomes of the Federal University of Pernambuco. Shoppingdown to RioBrazilians like to spend.
The panel suggests the supply of food in Africa will be "severely compromised" by climate change, with crop yields in danger of collapsing in some countries.In the drylands, water may become a critical issue.
This leaves the people in the drylands especially vulnerable when the rains fail and food prices rise – as they have done dramatically over the past 12 months, for a variety of reasons, including the high cost of fuel, global commodity price hikes and the actions of unscrupulous local traders.
