11.   The three-year drought has wiped out most crops and forced residents to either kill or sell their livestock.

12.   According to press reports in some rural areas peasants have sold their livestock to buy lottery tickets.

13.   Afghanistan has endured three years of drought and many farmers have either sold their livestock or watched their animals die.

14.   The money he got from selling his livestock before the village was destroyed by the army is now exhausted and he has no job.