The impacts of intense drought have been reported in NES since 1780, with severe losses in agricultural production, livestock death, increase in agricultural prices and human death  . The rural population already suffers from natural water scarcity in the countryside. The drought in 2012 was responsible for reducing up to 99% of the corn production in Pernambuco state . A predicted increase in drought, coupled with inadequate soil management practices by small farmers and agribusiness, increases the region's susceptibility to desertification . In NES, 70,000 km2 have reached a point at which agriculture is no longer possible . Intense droughts have triggered migration to urban centres within and outside NES . More than 10 million people have been impacted by the drought of 2012/2014 in the region, which was responsible for water shortage and contamination, increasing death by diarrhoea .
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