Plantings of cotton bioengineered to produce its own insecticide against bollworms, a major cause of crop failure, sustained little bollworm damage until this year.

经过生物工程改造的棉花种植场可以生产自己的抗棉铃虫杀虫剂，而棉铃虫是造成农作物歉收的主要原因，直到今年，棉铃虫的危害都很小。

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Animist beliefs consider death, disease, crop failure and other disasters not as natural occurrences, but as the result of the activities of supernatural powers.

万物有灵论者相信死亡、疾病、作物欠收和其它灾难并非自然现象，而是超自然力量作用的结果。

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That buffer should be more than enough to absorb the impact of harvest failure in Russia, which accounts for only 8% of the world's wheat crop.

这些足以缓冲俄国粮食减产造成的影响，因为俄罗斯仅占世界粮食作物的8%。

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When there is crop failure because of a drought or flood, farmers receive a text message.

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One of Bangladesh's key problems, conversely, along with its perennially flaky batting order, has been its failure to develop a crop of consistent seamers.

WSJ: Bangladesh Cricket Team Bruised After Tour of Zimbabwe

While none have been truly catastrophic, Valenzuela noted, as the demand for tequila from the U.S. and other markets continues to grow, the threat of serious crop failure does as well.

FORBES: The Science of Tequila (Snobbery)

Traders bought and sold 'future' contracts - an agreement to buy coffee, say, in three months time at a certain price - protecting themselves from the worry that a crop failure might drive up the price of coffee in the intervening months.

BBC: Hedging - a rough guide