( 1999 ) " Drought Follows the Plow ", adapted from Floods, Famines and Emperors: Basic Books.

While working for the USDA, he was appointed to the Montana Rural Development Board ( 1996 ) and the National Drought Task Force ( 1999 ).

Drought, poor weather conditions, and the policies of the Communist Party of China contributed to the famine, although the relative weights of the contributions are disputed due to the Great Leap Forward.

Drought, hail, disease, and insects take their toll of crops.

After approximately 1150, North America experienced significant climatic change in the form of a 300-year drought called the Great Drought.

* Great Drought.

Drought and poor harvests from 1884 compounded the problems, with some families leaving for Western Australia.

Chad has been an active champion of regional cooperation through the Central African Economic and Customs Union, the Lake Chad and Niger River Basin Commissions, and the Interstate Commission for the Fight Against the Drought in the Sahel.

Scientists debate the cause of the Classic Maya Collapse, but gaining currency is the Drought Theory discovered by physical scientists studying lakebeds, ancient pollen, and other tangible evidence.

Drought can affect agricultural areas during long periods with little or no precipitation.

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and / or Desertification, Particularly in Africa is a Convention to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements.

* Drought leading to famine in China.

* Drought monitoring-Continuous observation of rainfall levels and comparisons with current usage levels can help prevent man-made drought.

Careful monitoring of moisture levels can also help predict increased risk for wildfires, using such metrics as the Keetch-Byram Drought Index or Palmer Drought Index.

* US Drought Monitor Current U. S. drought conditions

* Drought occurs in India.

Drought or grazing on sandy country will also affect rate of wear.

Drought is unusual dryness of soil, resulting in crop failure and shortage of water for other uses, caused by significantly lower rainfall than average over a prolonged period.

In 1935, the federal government formed a Drought Relief Service ( DRS ) to coordinate relief activities.

A 1935 report by the President's Drought Committee, covering the government's assistance to agriculture during 1934 through mid 1935, discusses conditions, measures of relief, organization, finances, operations, and results of the government's assistance.

Drought plagued the area in the early part of the 20th Century.

Drought Relief Program buys cattle and sheep from area ranchers.

The Drought of 1930 – 31 hit Arkansas hard, given the area ’ s dependency on agriculture.

Drought from 1924 to 1926 drove many farmers broke.

The water supply was augmented in 1934, a year of serious drought, when the Federal Drought Relief Agency financed the installation of a water supply line from Burch Creek Canyon.

The contents of the Darnley urn are also problematic ; they were variously reported to be the remains of a stump, bail or the outer casing of a ball, but in 1998 Darnley's 82-year-old daughter-in-law said they were the remains of her mother-in-law's veil, casting a further layer of doubt on the matter.

It was further enhanced in projects known as H. 263v2 ( also known as H. 263 + or H. 263 1998 ), MPEG-4 Part 2 and H. 263v3 ( also known as H. 263 ++ or H. 263 2000 ).

1998 then saw a further increase of activity, with the signing of Salako, and the release of albums for all three of their signed bands-most notably Belle & Sebastian's ' The Boy With The Arab Strap ', which enjoyed similar approval from reviewers and fans to the band's previous release.

An extra tier was added to the Anfield Road end in 1998, which further increased the capacity of the ground but gave rise to problems when it was opened.

A new university college ( Swedish: högskola ), Malmö University College, was opened in 1998 on Kockums ' former dockside and further redevelopment of the now disused south-western harbor followed ; a city architecture exposition ( Bo01 ) was held in the area in 2001 and its buildings and villas forms the core of a new city district, aimed at the urban middle-class and with attractive waterfront vistas.

The MDC finalized a further revision to the standard in 1998 but this has not been presented to ANSI for approval.

With Mercedes-Benz engines, West sponsorship and former Williams designer Adrian Newey, further championships came in 1998 and 1999 with driver Mika Häkkinen and during the 2000s the team were consistent front-runners, driver Lewis Hamilton taking their latest title in 2008.

High budget deficits caused the 1998 Russian financial crisis and resulted in further GDP decline.

It was the first presidential meeting between the two countries for 13 years, with the two countries having come to a disagreement in 1996 following an invasion by Rwanda into eastern Congo, a disagreement which was renewed in 1998 after a further invasion.

In 1998, Kurzweil published The Age of Spiritual Machines, which focuses heavily on further elucidating his theories regarding the future of technology, which themselves stem from his analysis of long-term trends in biological and technological evolution.

Twain's mainstream pop acceptance was further helped by her appearance in the 1998 first edition of the VH1 Divas concert where she sang alongside Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan and Aretha Franklin, and also by VH1's 1999 heavily aired Behind the Music, which concentrated on the tragic aspects of her early life as well as her physical attractiveness and Nashville's early resistance to her bare-midriff music videos.

After the test, India continued expanding its nuclear power capacity and developing its nuclear physics programme, but made no further nuclear tests until 1998.

The London Assembly was the first of these, established in 2000, following a referendum in 1998, but further plans were abandoned following rejection of a proposal for an elected assembly in North East England in a referendum in 2004.

The government was forced to draw down foreign exchange reserves sharply in 1998 to meet foreign debt obligations, putting further pressure on the kwacha and inflation.

Girl " in 1993 and gained further recognition as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 1998 to 2000 and as a spokesperson for cosmetics company L ' Oreal.

He won three further club best and fairests, was a five time club leading goal kicker, All Australian Centre Half Forward seven times, including four times as captain and once as vice-captain, and he was named MVP by the Players ' Association twice, in 1995 and 1998.

He played no further part in Arsenal's season after overstretching his hamstring against Derby County on 29 April 1998, missing the 1998 FA Cup Final.

It was originally published independently by Hans Moravec in 1987 and Bruno Marchal in 1988 and was independently developed further by Max Tegmark in 1998.

In 1998, following further lobbying for the legislative review and revision of the 1996 Act, the Residential Parks Act of 1998 became law.

* January 1 – Assuming that the copyright laws are not changed further, all works published in 1923 enter the public domain in the U. S., the first works to do so since the passage of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.

Russia's economy sank into deep depression by the mid-1990s, was hit further by the financial crash of 1998, and then began to recover in 1999 – 2000.

The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I, which presents Derrida's seminar from 2001 to 2002, has appeared in English translation ; further volumes currently projected for the series include The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II ( 2002 – 2003 ), Death Penalty, Volume I ( 1999 – 2000 ), Death Penalty, Volume II ( 2000 – 2001 ), Perjury and Pardon, Volume I ( 1997 – 1998 ), and Perjury and Pardon, Volume II ( 1998 – 1999 ).