Drought
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Instead, these policies have left hundreds of millions of people even more desperately poor and hungry, and even more vulnerable to
drought
, pests, and soil depletion.
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The second thing I'd like to talk about: If you were living in a remote village somewhere, your child was limp, and you were in a drought, or you were in floods, or you were in a situation where there wasn't adequate diversity of diet, what would you do?
So it turns out that the very same technology is also being used to grow new lines of corn, wheat, soybean and other crops that are highly tolerant of drought, of flood, of pests and pesticides.
If we have four years of drought, we still have water on the campus, because we collect rainwater.
And finally, at the ecosystem level, whether it's flood prevention or
drought
control provided by the forests, or whether it is the ability of poor farmers to go out and gather leaf litter for their cattle and goats, or whether it's the ability of their wives to go and collect fuel wood from the forest, it is actually the poor who depend most on these ecosystem services.
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