Article: Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil.(Book Review)

Article: Nicholas Gabriel Arons. Waiting for Rain--The Politics and Poetry ...
Utopian Studies;  December 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil. Tucson ... Alagoas, in Northeast Brazil, has been ... cyclical droughts has caused ... involving our drought-related ... caused by the droughts, which are ... pre> Drought is like a ... shows that Northeast Brazil has ...

Article: In the Sertao, Another Parched Summer; Farmers of ...
The Washington Post;  September 27, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... the part of northeast Brazil known as the Sertao, where drought has pounded ... and corn. Droughts have affected ... five major droughts. Since 1900 ... Some of the droughts have killed ... most recent drought are difficult ...

Article: Is the Recent Increasing Trend of Rainfall over Northeast ...
Journal of Climate;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... increase in rainfall over northeast Brazil (Nordeste), while ... region there has been a drought. The correlation coefficients ... variations over semiarid northeast Brazil (Nordeste) attracted ... 1961). The continuing drought conditions in this region ...

Article: Waiting for Rain: the Politics and Poetry of Drought in ...
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  September 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... politics and poetry of drought in Northeast Brazil. xxvii, 251 pp ... subject (in this case drought) that it can move ... especially the remarkable droughts of the 1870s, 1930s ... avoid the disaster of drought. The matter-of ...

Article: A drought ravages northeast Brazil
NACLA Report on the Americas;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... drought becomes famine. The drought came as no surprise. Since ... for what could be the worst drought of the century. The administration ... remain largely untapped. As the drought continues, many of the hungry ... He has lived through eight droughts, though he admits that this ...

Article: Northeast Brazil Faces Famine From Drought
The Washington Post;  May 17, 1998 ;     597 words ... ... s northeastern region as a severe drought dries up the earth and kills crops ... semi-arid region is no stranger to droughts -- they reappear every few years ... has been spent on projects to fight drought in the northeast, with paltry results ...

Article: Drought Jolts Poor Northeast Brazil; Rural ...
The Washington Post;  April 7, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... region of Brazil, has been suffering drought for more than a year. Half of its 2 ... as the sertao, has suffered cyclical drought for decades. But farmers interviewed in Piaui, the one state entirely within the drought area, said this is the worst one they ...