Related by context. Frequent words. (Click for all words.) 60 breadbasket 53 Large swathes 52 Droughts 50 fertile plains 48 agricultural heartland 47 Severe drought 47 agriculturally rich 47 irrigated crops 46 river deltas 46 cereal crops 46 locust plague 46 fertile farmland 45 staple foods 45 staple maize 44 arable land 44 fertile soils 44 famines 44 arid regions 43 dietary staple 43 poorest 43 parched 42 famine stricken 42 Swaths 42 fertile lands 42 coarse grains 42 illicit opium 42 harvests 42 croplands 42 industrialising 42 Fertile Crescent 42 Genetically modified crops 41 crops 41 farmlands 41 deserts 41 Migratory birds 41 droughts 41 Large swaths 41 brutal dictatorships 41 rapidly industrializing 41 impoverished 41 pampas 40 arable lands 40 irrigated agriculture 40 savannahs 40 bumper harvests 40 prolonged droughts 40 barren wasteland 40 baobab 40 chronically hungry 40 arid 40 Dark Continent 40 aridity 40 Per capita consumption 40 opium poppy producing 40 poverty stricken 40 hardwood forests 40 glaciers melt 40 virgin forests 40 colder winters 40 highlands 40 drought parched 40 hinterland 40 driest continent 40 peat bogs 40 supermarket shelves 40 rivers 39 grains 39 temperate regions 39 river valleys 39 Huge swaths 39 heartlands 39 conurbations 39 subsistence agriculture 39 locust invasion 39 wheat 39 Monsoon rains 39 superpower 39 metropolises 39 drylands 39 heaviest snowfalls 39 industrialized 39 western seaboard 39 semi arid 39 Volcanic eruptions 39 granaries 39 large swathes 39 oilseed crop 39 lowlands 39 crop yields 39 floods recede 39 subsistence farming 39 plains 39 basins 38 scarcities 38 banana republics 38 regions 38 colonial domination 38 corn 38 Sugar cane 38 hinterlands 38 Fossil fuels