Sentences with phrase «widespread crop failures»

This led to widespread crop failure leaving families in rural areas in dire need of financial resources.

Unseasonable droughts have caused widespread crop failure in recent years.

In response to widespread crop failures in the Midwest, the United States Department of Agriculture began promoting purebred puppies as a fool - proof «cash» crop.

Such crazy climates would not doom humanity, but they could pose the most momentous physical challenge we have ever faced, with widespread crop failures and social disruption.

The poor climate may been one of many factors contributing to societal changes of the era, including widespread crop failures and famines in Central Asia that may have triggered migrations from the area to China and Eastern Europe, thus helping spread an episode of plague (depicted in this 15th century painting) that originated there.

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.

Dr. Huber «wrote a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack warning of the discovery of a new pathogen and a possible link between Roundup Ready ® (GMO) corn and soybeans and severe reproductive problems in livestock as well as widespread crop failure» in January.

But the main problem now is that the changes are happening so quickly that many species can not adapt; and we are probably going to have widespread crop failures because crops don't do well in weather extremes.

Another group of people living in Ireland in the 1840s famously starved when a potato blight caused widespread crop failure.

For example, if high temperatures lead to widespread crop failures in the tropics, people may be motivated to delay warming or slow the rate of warming in the hopes of providing additional time to develop heat resistant crop varieties.

New patterns of disease might emerge (see # 8), he says, or pollinating insects might become extinct, leading to widespread crop failure.

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.

These tipping points could be ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica melting permanently, global food shortages and widespread crop failures with more extreme weather, rising ocean temperatures and acidity reaching triggering a crash in global coral reef ecosystems, and warming oceans push the release of methane from the sea floor, which could lead to runaway climate change, etc..

One such drought, the «Dust Bowl» of the 1930s, resulted in widespread crop failure, dust storms, and the displacement of thousands of people.

The First Lady said the country has witnessed the adverse effects of environmental degradation including decline and extinction of thousands of animal and plant species, phenomenal drying up of rivers and receding water levels in our water reservoirs, and widespread crop failure that threatens food security.

And if the planet does cool significantly, could that lead to widespread crop failures and mass famine?

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).