Sentences with phrase «of failed crops»

I'd expect we should assume double or quadruple the 35 million hectares figure to get us through long droughts and seasons of failed crops.

This means that plants need more water to keep growing throughout the season or they will dry out, increasing the risk of failed crops and wildfires.

Not exact matches

Summary: «When a group of Burmese refugees join the congregation, the pastor of a failing Anglican church attempts to aid them by planting crops and enlisting the help of the community.»

The current crop of morons doing your work are failing big time.

When the crops fail and the peasants run out of food, they come to Joseph.

In times of drought, when other crops in quinoa - growing areas fail, quinoa can actually increase its yields.

To guard against the economic catastrophe of a failed coffee crop, many growers now mix in other cash crops such as yucca and tomatoes, alongside their coffee plants or experiment with growing hybrid coffee plants that are better adapted to climate extremes or are better able to resist pests.

We chose the term «CROP CIRCLES» for its quality of being able to surprise and disrupt the failed approaches to creating healthy communities.

But now the increasing demand in the market for both the green and dried article is attracting the attention of farmers who have an eye for crops that do not fail and that yield good returns.

That's because of issues with crop production and failed crops... down here we have no pests and a consistent temperature of 16C.

It's only when Wenger has been entrusted with the right crop of players but still fails to deliver after a couple of years or so that he should be crucified.

He is also hoping to bring in a player who can help share the goal - scoring burden with his current crop of midfielder and wingers failing to offer much in the way of support in terms of end product.

The people of East Africa once again face a devastating drought this year: Crops wither and fail from Kenya to Ethiopia, livestock drop dead and famine spreads.

Water shortages, food riots, failed crops, the worldwide collapse of pollinators: this is only the beginning.

Things aren't looking much better for the insects in Europe: a European Commission proposal to ban use of neonicotinoids on crops that attract bees recently failed to be adopted.

Intercropping gives farmers more options if one of their crops fails.

The form of phosphate plants can use is in danger of reaching its peak — when supply fails to keep up with demand — in just 30 years, potentially decreasing the rate of crop yield as the as the world population continues to climb and global warming stresses crop yields, which could have damaging effects on the global food supply.

Now something similar is happening with animal pests and Bt toxins, although the Bt crops are largely holding their own after about 15 years of global use: cases of resistance are rare, popping up only where farmers fail to cultivate correctly (see «Super-pests are fighting back against killer crops «-RRB-.

Cooler climatic conditions and an excess of rain had led to failed crop harvests and widespread hunger, in addition to large numbers of people living in crowded — and already pathogen - filled — medieval cities.

Meanwhile the Arctic melts, California risks getting hotter and drier, and crops will probably continue to fail throughout much of Africa and Asia.

And it is «the best - insulated freezer in the world,» says Cary Fowler, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust: if the cooling units fail, the permafrost will keep the vault below — 3.5 degrees Celsius.

Using samples from gene banks, they recently identified 30 varieties of common beans that can stand up to temperatures that would otherwise cause the crops to fail.

And if their crops fail — because of drought or plant diseases, which also respond to a changing climate — they may be forced to move to the city.

The Pentagon itself has described climate change as an «immediate» risk and major threat multiplier, one that could cause crops to fail, spark mass migrations and increase conflict for dwindling water resources (to say nothing of the threat sea level rise poses to U.S. naval bases around the world).

Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of the U.S. Ethiopia mission, seed relief complemented international and national food aid, helping farm families to quickly grow crops after several seasons of erratic or failed rains in Ethiopia and the catastrophic 2015 - 16 El Niño droughts.

«We teach and support our small family farmers with regenerative, USDA organic and ethical farming practices, paying them whether their crops flourish or fail,» explains Amy Keller, Director of Education and Training.

If you fail to rotate crops, reinvest in your land - base, or let field lie fallow, you're looking at 2 - 3 years of wheat, barley, rye or corn, at best, before the soil dies and forces you to «go off in search of greener pastures».

After trying (and failing) to find my Stuart Weitzman Lowlands, I unboxed my only pair of black booties and rolled the hem of my leggings to make them appear «cropped» in contrast.

When an Academy Award ® - winning filmmaker takes one of the world's most beloved musicals based on one of the most powerful novels ever written and casts it with cream - of - the - crop performers, including a former Oscar ® host, an Oscar ® - winning actor and two Oscar ® - nominated actresses, how could it fail come February?

So Apatosaurus protagonist Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa) is born into a family of homesteading subsistence farmers, constantly worried that the crops will fail and leave them with insufficient food to survive the brutal winters in the shadow of the Clawtooth Mountains.

Dwayne Johnson is making his starring debut, Steven Brand (as Memnon) comes straight from a crop of failed TV shows, director Chuck Russell is just coming off of one of the worst movies in 2000 (Bless the Child), and a script that had been rewritten numerous times by hacks that haven't made very much in terms of great screenplays.

While the subject matter of his subsequent films has varied from comic book heroes to crop circle aliens, Shyamalan seems to be adhering to a formula, one which never fails to include a dark ponderous tone, a Pennsylvania setting, slow self - aware camerawork, a bit part played by the director himself, and importance assigned to colors and sounds.

The Pilgrims» plight proceeds to deteriorate further as crops fail, livestock produce blood instead of milk, and Caleb inexplicably falls ill and slips into a catatonic state.

Over the next several months, bad things began to happen to the family: crops failed because of drought, Efia's mother had a stroke, and a cousin drowned in a river.

That the current crop of Surface devices with both PRO and RT versions failed to live up to the expectations of Microsoft is all too evident.

The industry won't be able to develop the new crop of authors as long as it holds onto dead weight - books that failed to meet sales expectaitons.

After failing to gain much traction, thoughts of RIM exiting the tablet market are starting to crop up, definitely not a good sign for a company that is already widely regarded as behind the times in its once thriving smartphone lineup.

«If you destroy the forest then the river will stop flowing, the rains will become irregular, the crops will fail and you will die of hunger and starvation.»

The coming of a new year inevitably brings a wave of new - gadget hype, with another crop of emerging technologies either set to become mainstream or fail to live up to expectations.

To take one highly topical example, over the last 18 months, Carillion (the failed facilities management and construction services company) kept on cropping up as one of the cheapest companies in the UK — and kept on falling foul of our checklist.

Another issue for investing in agribusiness schemes is that crops can fail and plants and animals can lose value, so you can lose some or all of your money - for example, several forestry schemes failed in 2009.

With a crop of new employees, she never fails to astound us with her patience and persistence to give them the knowledge that she so desired when she was new.

The implants are a new technology that can be used for initial cropping or for repair of a ear that has failed to stand.

Ngelawang Barong not just performed during a 42 - day period following Galungan but also in time of disaster such draught, failed crops, plague, and Bali bomb.

Monsanto failed to tell them that the crop was very susceptible to bollworms, a virulent parasite, and the GM cotton required twice the amount of water as traditional crops.

What will be the impact of desertification on sea life, the displaced refugee's as seas rise, failing crops from drought.

[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Not unless it changes NH atmospheric circulation and we have another drought year, the crops fail, and the price of food goes up — a lot.

If the crops failed, these communities contained too many people to survive on local foraging or hunting — both because population densities were so high and because the habitat destruction caused by farming had reduced the amount of local wild food.

Turning up your AC, learning how to get out of your car quickly in case of a flash flood; stacking up on canned goods when crops fail; getting to a shelter quickly when that tornado strikes in places where it's never struck before?