Additional Resources on Drought
Key Facts About Drought
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To get started, read some key facts about drought in agriculture
Highlighted Initiatives and Additional Resources
- E-learning: Coping with Drought
- ICRISAT Virtual Academy for Semi-Arid TropicsE-learning: Coping with Drought | ICRISAT Virtual Academy for Semi-Arid Tropics.
- Beginning Farmers: Managing Drought
- Drought Facts. San Diego State University
- Agriculture and Water Scarcity: A Programmatic Approach to Water Use Efficiency and Agricultural Productivity FAO Committee in Agriculture
- Agricultural Household Adaptation to Climate Change: Water Stress & Variability. The World Bank
- Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2011 -- Drought Risk
- 2011 GRiSP M&E Conference Presentations
- World Bank Video, Niger, Africa Drought & Food Crisis
- World Bank | Drought
- IFAD Drought management and mitigation
- Managing Drought Risk for Food Security in Africa - Malawi
- Weather Index Insurance in Agriculture: Guidance for Development Practioners (Download the document)
- Briefing Note Series from IWMI on Types of Storage Systems
- Building Resilience to Drought in the Karamoja Cluster of Eastern Africa
- Agricultural Drought Management in India (page 88) | SAARC
- Science-based and Sustainable Solutioins to the Drought and Famine in the Horn of Africa. ICRISAT
Articles from the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People
Initiatives and Recommended Websites
- FAO | Crisis in the Horn of Africa
- The Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa Initiative
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Profiles of Progress - Drought-Tolerant Maize for Africa
- IFAD: Drought Management and Mitigation
- IFAD: Supplemental Irrigation
- Middle East Water and Livelihoods Initiative (WLI)
- World Bank | Climate Change and Drought
- World Bank | Climate Change: Preparation not Procrastination Effective Drought Management
- FAO | Emergencies and Drought
- Relief Web: Somalia: displaced persons and residents are struggling with a severe drought
- Scientists unite to combat water scarcity: solutions yield more crop per drop in drylands
- Risk Management - Drought Early-Warning Systems and Contingency Plans
- World Bank Agricultural Risk Management Team – Weather Risk Management
- High-Level Meeting on National Drought Policy: Towards More Drought Resiliant Societies (March 2013)
- Second Africa-Asia Drought Adaptation Forum (October 2012)
Active Practitioners
Some practitioners are particularly active in the area of drought. Check out their profiles on FARMD's pratitioners directory, and visit the webpages of these organizations to learn more about their work.
- International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
- CGIAR
- GRiSP
- The World Bank
- International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
- DEWFORA
- CIMMYT: Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa Initiative
- International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- African Drought Risk & Development Network
- Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN)
- Comite Scientifique Français de la Désertification (CSFD)
- Desertification, Drought, Poverty and Agriculture (DDPA) - A research consortium
- International Arid Land Consortium (IALC)
- Mediterranean Information Office for Environment, Culture and Sustainable Development (MIO – ECSDE)
- Network for Desertification and Drought in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS)
- TerrAfrica
- The Drylands Coordination Group (DCG)
- The World Conservation Union (IUCN) – Drylands
- United Nations Development Programme - Drylands Development Center
- World Resources Institute (WRI) – Forests, grasslands and drylands