lsn't it expensive ? - Distress sale.

John Rimbauer bought him out at distress sale prices.

Reduced fodder availability, water shortages and distress sales have decreased animal holdings by between 50 per cent and 100 per cent across the country.

Reduced fodder availability, water shortages and distress sales have decreased animal holdings by 50 to 100 per cent across the country.

Taken together, storage, logistics and finance help farmers to avoid distress sales - goods can be transported to and stored in a secure facility, and finance can be accessed to cover ongoing expenses and investments for next season's crop.

A cooperative in Haryana State, India, profitably aggregated the marketing and hedging needs of small farmers to provide benefits including price stabilization, avoidance of distress sales, an auditable record of transactions and warehouse-facilitated quality assurance.

There is some evidence of distress livestock sales and rising casual labour rates, suggesting that the drought has made farm life unsustainable for some.

Safety nets can mitigate the long-term impact of food price increases such as malnutrition, prevent distress asset sales and allow increased investment in health and education.

There is mounting evidence of emerging widespread famine conditions in the country, reflecting substantially reduced food intakes, collapse of the purchasing power of the people, distress sales of livestock, large-scale depletion of personal assets, soaring food grain prices, rapidly increasing numbers of destitute people, and ever swelling numbers of refugees and internally displaced persons.

Key indicators of the gravity of the situation were reductions in food intake, the consumption of wild foods, the collapse of labour markets, distress sales of livestock, the depletion of productive assets and growing numbers of internally displaced families and refugees to neighbouring Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran.