Droughts are common in arid and semiarid lands.

It made The Shadow think of the semiarid lands of the Southwest.

If a group of architects and researchers have worked out their plans correctly, people may soon be able to enjoy the cosmopolitan life on the edge of semiarid land.

The availablily of relatively inexpensive semiarid land, along with proximity to U.S. markets, concentrates livestock production in Sonora and other northern states.

Moreover, according to outside scholars, 60 percent of the new villages were on semiarid land unsuitable for long-term cultivation.

Through the Act, individuals may apply for a desert-land entry to reclaim, irrigate, and cultivate arid and semiarid public lands.

Both extremely arid and arid lands are considered to be deserts while semiarid lands are generally referred to as steppes.

And there is the human conflict between those who are trying to live off the semiarid land and those who want it to remain untouched, wild and well stocked with animals.

This species has developed special mechanisms to survive in the Mediterranean conditions, and introduction in semiarid lands may help to prevent the disruption of the equilibrium of those fragile ecosystems.

The sea was gone; we were streaking over semiarid land that soon turned to desert.