rainland

== English == === Noun === rainland (plural rainlands) An area, especially in Africa, in which water for growing crops is supplied by rain (as contrasted with irrigated land and with floodland). 1987, Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed Salih, Agrarian Change in the Central Rainlands, Sudan, page 3: I have, however, argued that planned agrarian change in the rainlands has not taken into account the complexity of the ecosystem, the traditional agricultural and pastoral production systems and the likely impacts that it might have on society, economy and ecology. […] Ecologically the rainlands have been subjected to a drastic degradation […]