"We've all heard the stark anecdotes: precious topsoil weakened by over-farming, dust clouds darkening the Asian skies, parched land becoming desert and rivers running dry, " said Mr Grice.

格莱斯说：“大家都听说过这严酷的说法：珍贵的表土因过度耕作肥力降低，亚洲上空尘云遮蔽，焦干的土地荒漠化，河流行将干涸。”

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Dry land rice growing is the primary production activities of Landian Yaos high land shifting farming.

陆稻种植是蓝靛瑶的游耕山地农业的基本生产内容。

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Fully raising rainfall use efficiency of farm-land is the basis of high efficient utilization to limited water in dry-land farming.

充分提高农田降水利用效率是旱地农业中有限水高效利用的基础。

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Weiss believes this climate change initiated a mass migration away from dry-land farming to the creation of irrigated fields along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, allowing the people to build some of the earliest institutions of civilization.

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