crop failure
Fields yield nothing
Crop failure is the loss of a harvest due to drought, disease, pests, flooding, or other adverse conditions.
A single crop failure brings hardship; consecutive failures can cause famine.
The term applies whether an entire region's harvest is lost or just one farmer's field: The potato blight caused widespread crop failure across Ireland.
- desertificationLand becoming barren, infertile
- dust bowlErosion-ravaged drought zone
- scorched earthDestroy all useful resources
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- famineSevere food shortage
hailstorm · frost · pest infestation · waterlogging · starvation · locusts · malnutrition · viral disease · dustbowl · blight · economic loss · social unrest · locust swarm · flood · climate change · monoculture · water scarcity · soil erosion
- farm problemssoil erosion, soil depletion, water pollution, fertilizer runoff, overgrazing
- crop damageleaf burn, root damage, stunted growth, wilting, browning
- catastrophesdisasters, disaster, natural disasters, catastrophe, apocalypse
- crop threatspests, pest, blight, drought, disease
- farm hazardsdrought, frost damage, flood, hail damage, frost
- Depression EraGreat Depression, Hooverville, breadline, dust storms, soup kitchen
food security impact
crop failureplenty
Sufficient quantity, and then some
food security · overproduction · glut · feast · cornucopia