Sentence examples for unreliable rainfall from inspiring English sources

Nearly all Obote's crops are drying up because of unreliable rainfall, and could easily catch fire.

Rain-fed croplands, which experience unreliable rainfall and wind-driven soil erosion.

These strategies include practical projects, such as approaches to farming that conserve and maximise the use of water in response to drought and unreliable rainfall patterns.

And as their crops on higher ground fail due to unreliable rainfall, people in countries like Uganda are increasingly relocating to wetland areas, contributing to overuse of wetland resources.

This paper extends this dimension with emphasis on Tharaka South sub-county where water scarcity, unreliable rainfall and soil water stress is a major cause of household food insecurity.

The study revealed that unreliable rainfall affected the availability of honey in Nduli village.

Water supply is increasingly becoming important in coffee production given the unreliable rainfalls and frequent droughts that affect growth, yield and quality of coffee (DaMatta 2004; Worku and Astatkie 2010).

This economic and subsistence activity is extremely sensitive to unreliable and variable rainfall patterns characterizing this region (Hansen et al. 2011).

One of the respondents pointed out that "unreliable and seasonal rainfall affects the quantity of honey to satisfy the demand of customers due to its importance in Tanzanian society as food as well as medicine".

Roughly 50 percent of the hungry lived in farm households in higher-risk environments that were marginal for crop production ones with low, highly unreliable or excessive rainfall; inherently poor or degraded soils; steep topography; and remoteness from markets and public services.

Because rainfall is unreliable, with periods of drought and flooding, large storage reservoirs are needed to ensure water supply and to provide high-capacity drainage of storm water.