Safeguards

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SAFEGUARDS- Graphic: Air drop Today, inadequate or badly timed rainfall is unlikely to proceed beyond the destruction of crops. During times of good rains and good harvests, villages may have stored enough grain to avert starvation. Stored grass and other fodder can supply livestock when lack of rain shrivels pastures. The expansion of transport networks, alternate economic opportunities, and government relief efforts have helped diminished the probability of starvation. Other measures to insure against famine include planting a variety of drought resistant crops and adjusting planting techniques and times according on how the monsoon season begins.