Others experienced prolonged droughts, while some suffered from both droughts and excessive rains.

Droughts alone affected more than 20 million people worldwide.

During droughts, farmers are barely able to eke out a living.

In many parts of sub Saharan Africa, the droughts are so much worse.

Droughts impact substantially on the sector's output and result in negative growth rates.

Severe droughts and lack of central planning have led to repeated population movements.

For slowly developing disasters, such as droughts or famines, a different telecommunications strategy is needed.

The region will continue to experience shocks from natural hazards, such as floods, droughts and cyclones.

20. Droughts, floods and storms accounted for emergency situations among vulnerable rural populations in many countries.

We get droughts, increased desertification, crashing food systems, water scarcity, famine, forced migration, political instability, warfare, crisis.

Certainly We afflicted Pharaoh s clan with droughts and loss of produce, so that they may take admonition.

Certainly We afflicted Pharaoh s clan with droughts and loss of produce, so that they may take admonition.

And certainly We overtook Firon's people with droughts and diminution of fruits that they may be mindful.

And certainly We overtook Firon's people with droughts and diminution of fruits that they may be mindful.

The climatic factors of concern include droughts and projected reductions in freshwater availability due to global warming.

Extreme events, such as droughts, floods and hurricanes, will be less extreme and less frequent with successful mitigation.

But when the scarcity came when the highs and lows and the droughts came, then people went into starvation.

We punished the people of Pharaoh with years (of droughts) and shortness of crops that they might receive admonition.

We punished the people of Pharaoh with years (of droughts) and shortness of crops that they might receive admonition.

They explained that the last three camps were set up to house people fleeing the effects of the droughts.

For example, WFP has led the response to the floods and droughts in the Democratic People s Republic of Korea.

And increasing intensity of droughts and floods will severely impact breadbaskets of the world, causing massive famines and economic decline.

In many rural areas, deteriorating and outdated infrastructure has lost its resilience to climate related extreme events such as hurricanes and droughts.

Severe to moderate droughts in mid 2005 affected Austria, the Balkan countries, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and Spain, leading to important agricultural losses.

ESCAP supported initiatives in several member States included mitigative measures to prevent water shortages during droughts and public information campaigns through the media.

Noting that hazards in Bangladesh include floods, storm surges, droughts, and increasing salinity, he gave examples of technologies existing in Bangladesh to reduce risk.

Major contingency planning exercises were undertaken in 1997 for the Sahel region and southern Africa to prepare for possible droughts caused by El Niño.

On the other hand, heat waves, droughts, floods, and other disasters induced by climate change are destroying crops and reducing the supplies of grains on world markets. In recent months, massive droughts have struck the grain producing regions of Russia and Ukraine, and enormous floods have hit Brazil and Australia now, another drought is menacing northern China s grain belt.

These droughts triple the number of people exposed to severe water scarcity at least once in every generation, leading to major food and health crises.

We have provided assistance to combat epidemic diseases and overcome the effects of natural disasters including floods, droughts and infestation by locusts and other pests.

(b) The impact of natural disasters, such as hurricanes and volcanoes, and other environmental problems, such as beach and coastal erosion and droughts, on those Territories

(b) The impact of natural disasters, such as hurricanes and volcanoes, and other environmental problems, such as beach and coastal erosion and droughts, on those Territories

(b) The impact of natural disasters, such as hurricanes and volcanoes, and other environmental problems, such as beach and coastal erosion and droughts, on those Territories

(b) The impact of natural disasters, such as hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, and other environmental problems, such as beach and coastal erosion and droughts, on those Territories

Some point to climate change, with global warming producing deeper droughts and more extreme weather. Some of these fires have raged under abnormal conditions some have not.

(b) The impact of natural disasters, such as hurricanes and volcanic eruptions, and other environmental problems, such as beach and coastal erosion and droughts, on those Territories

Remote sensing data integrated into a GIS could be used to help monitor droughts and forest fires and to assess the probability of and possibly predict earthquakes.

For a number of heavily indebted poor countries, shocks from collapses in principal exports, droughts and other natural disasters, and civil strife have led to unsustainable debt levels.

It further noted the planned initiatives aimed at monitoring variations in water cycles and natural disasters, including torrential rains, typhoons, floods and droughts, as well as weather forecasting.

There appears to be an emerging consensus among scientists that each year we are witnessing increasing numbers of catastrophic events linked to global warming hurricanes, floods and droughts.

It was therefore essential for the FEWS programme to be reviewed and improved in order to make it more effective as a tool for the mitigation of droughts.

Each year building codes are ignored and zoning laws overlooked as communities expand into areas prone to earthquakes, landslides, floods, tidal surges, droughts, volcanic eruptions and high winds.

Even if we limit the rise in global temperatures, climate change is here to stay. Communities are already facing more extreme and frequent droughts, floods, and other weather events.

Some Parties proposed developing national drought policies to mitigate the adverse impacts of periodic droughts and indicated their need for a warning system to monitor the effects of drought.

Our gains continue to be eroded by formidable challenges, including natural disasters such as droughts, floods, the HIV AIDS pandemic, and the reduction of preferential markets for our goods.