Crop failure refers to a situation where a significant portion or all of an agricultural crop is lost due to various factors such as drought, floods, pests, diseases, extreme weather conditions and other natural calamities.
Full definition
The kind that produces a year without a summer, and there is a general
crop failure in the northern hemisphere.
This includes doubling crop productivity and the fodder available to feed animals, while also reducing by a third the risk
of crop failure due to droughts and other climate shocks.
Changes in our climate may be as subtle as incremental increases in night temperatures in the summer, or as dramatic
as crop failure due to flood or drought.
The costs of technology are usually beyond their reach, and the frequency of
crop failure due to unpredictable climate makes any additional risk very dangerous.
According to the world's best scientists, if we do nothing millions of people in poor countries will die
from crop failures and diseases attributable to human - induced global warming.
As each new variant of grain was created, the growing conditions became more favorable with less potential
for crop failure, exactly what a farmer looking to make a profit would need.
Every additional degree means more coastal area lost to the sea,
more crop failures, more deadly heat waves, more human misery.
But many regions of the world have experienced significant shifts in the pattern and amount of rainfall, raising concerns about a growing water scarcity problem and
increasing crop failure.
Growing two crops together results in higher productivity compared with producing sole crops with less chance of
complete crop failure.
Year after
year crop failures due to attacks by pests and pathogens are reported in the media despite their being treated with pesticides.
Although it is not always possible to totally attribute a
particular crop failure to climate change, the increase in the number of extreme weather incidents can be blamed partly on climate change.
The income provides a buffer
against crop failures or other economic crises, as well as money for household expenses, health care or school fees.
He said the economy could crumble under any major economic shock such
as crop failure or sharp fall in commodity prices.
These practices have obvious benefits for farmers — reduced input costs, greater autonomy from corporations, diversified income streams, risk management
for crop failures and varied produce to improve nutrition.
As the cooler temperatures began to take over during the Roman period, catastrophic droughts took hold and
crop failures led to starvation.
The exceptional heat over such a long duration, combined with poor air quality from wildfires increased deaths by at least 56,000 in Moscow and other parts of western Russia, according to Munich Reinsurance, and led to
massive crop failures in the region.
Though growing seasons in some areas will expand, the combined impacts of drought, severe weather, lack of accumulated snowmelt, greater number and diversity of pests, lower groundwater tables and a loss of arable land could cause
severe crop failures and livestock shortages worldwide.
And: when multiple climate - change -
related crop failures cause genuine hunger... it will be a lot worse.]
Intercropping has three major advantages: 1) Reduces physical space needed 2) Reduces potential for widespread
crop failure since a pest or disease is unlikely to decimate both crops 3) Can reduce resource use like water and fertilization needs.
Longer growing seasons challenged by more severe weather events causing increased
crop failure rates.
The tiny roundworms, or nematodes, cause $ 157 billion in
crop failures worldwide each year, other researchers estimate, largely because they're beyond the reach of pesticides.
Once the Arctic summer sea ice disappears (which could happen as early as 2013), agriculture in the northern hemisphere will lose its «air conditioning» and we (but especially our children) will start
facing crop failures and famines.
«The stories of
crop failure made me want to understand how to make farming practices more resilient, especially as climate change makes extreme weather events more frequent.»
They want you to know that while climate change did produce a drought that contributed to civil war, it is not exactly fair to saythat the conflict is the result of warming; next door, for instance, Lebanon suffered the
same crop failures.
In Odisha, where late monsoons
mean crop failures, poverty and even suicide, a novel scheme aims to boost water access
The dust storms themselves resulted from a combination of dry conditions, poor land use practices, and large
scale crop failures that exposed easily erodible bare soil to the strong winds of the Great Plains.
Phrases with «crop failures»