Sentences with phrase «caused widespread crop failure»
Unseasonable droughts have caused widespread crop failure in recent years.
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It was the worst drought in the instrumental record, causing widespread crop failure and a mass migration of farming families to urban centers.»
The three - year Syrian drought had a catalytic effect, contributing to existing water and agricultural insecurity and causing widespread crop failures and livestock death.
Secondly, the 1810s were affected greatly by the eruption of Tambora in 1815 and another big eruption in 1809 — these caused widespread crop failures (1816 was the «year without a summer» — Henry Stommel wrote a great book on this).
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In 1815 a 800 Mt explosion ejected 160 km3 of minerals into the the atmosphere and this caused widespread starvation in the Southern Hemisphere due to crop failures.
/ Africa Famine - is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by crop failure, overpopulation, or government policies.