Drought | Videos
FARMD (July 2013) | This interview video with Gary Eilerts from USAID / FEWS NET shares what the historic development of satellite imagery technology has been, leading to their most recent actual evapotranspiration product today, and what changes will develop in the future to make this technology more useful in agricultural risk management.
FARMD (July 2013) | This interview with Gary Eilerts of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) / FEWS NET shares insight into how the field of international development has, and will continue to be, impacted by the satellite imagery and satellite imagery datasets.
FARMD (July 2013) | This interview with Gary Eilerts of USAID / FEWS NET discusses the how satellite imagery can be presented so that it can be used by different groups of agricultural stakeholders for the benefit of food security and agricultural risk management practices.
FARMD (July 2013) | This final interview with Gary Eilerts of USAID / FEWS NET explains how exactly satellite technology is being used to measure water resources for agricultural risk management in developing countries, specifically detailing the way that the new actual evapotranspiration product works.
International Union for Conservation of Nature (January 2013) | The video showcases the IUCN 'Drought Risk Reduction' project, which focuses on increasing communities resilience to drought through water management. Implementing the ecosystem approach, the IUCN Uganda office conducts studies and research to ensure nature-based solutions are applied in order to reduce the risk of recurrent drought in the Northeast region of the country. For more information, please visit iucn.org/water
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IWMI (February 2012) | Themes to present. IWMI- International Water Management Institute General info on Droughts and other natural disastersIWMI activities and its relation to the Drought Mitigation:IWMI Research on drought, IWMI Drought Center Initiative, ADAPT projectManagement of Drought In Central Asia: Water Management InstitutionIWRM Fergana project Management of Drought In Central Asia: Water and Land Conservation practices.
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Telesur (January 2012) | Buenos Aires, Argentina - The Argentine Minister of Agriculture, Norberto Yauhar, has called on people to not overestimate the level of drought existing in different regions of the country. He reiterated his support for the nation's farmers.
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Aljazeera English (December 2011) | Mexico's worst drought in 70 years has wiped out the year's corn crop and left more than 2.5m people without food and water. An estimated 40 per cent of the national territory in the north and central parts of the country has been affected. The economic hit caused by the drought is expected to force hundreds of thousands of people to leave the parched lands, and seek scarce jobs in the cities.
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Global Fund for Disaster Risk Reduction (November 2011) | Somalia Drought Management and Livelihood Protection (DMLP) Project. This video asks how we can gain and sustain interest from the international community in crises such as the famine in Somalia; it asks how can rapid response be institutionalized so that those affected by the crisis are effectively reached; and, finally, how can systems be bult to enhance the resilance of Somalis to these recurrent crises. The video details the responses to the drought undertaken, including cash for work programs and irrigation infrastructure.
VSF Belgium, VSF Germany, Oxfam, Acted and Practical Action (November 2011) | "Coping With Drought" is about resilience. For the people of the Pokot and Turkana regions in Kenya, combating drought is a continual way of life. This film was made in partnership with VSF Belgium, VSF Germany, Oxfam, Acted and Practical Action, with funds from the European Commission. This video was directed and edited by Tom Whitworth.
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AFP (October 2011) | A pioneering insurance scheme has paid out for the first time to victims of this year'sdrought in Northern Kenya. The scheme has been innovated by the International Livestock Research Institute. This year, 675 pastoralists took out insurance for their livestock earlier in the year and were able to take some payout from the scheme. Thousands of animals died this year when the long rains failed, leaving families with no food or source of income.
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ICEO Workshops (October 2011) | This lecture is from the GEOSS Workshop XL: Managing Drought Through Earth Observation, held in Sydney, Australia and given by Dasarath Jayasuriya, BoM, Australia.
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United Nations (October 2011) | The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) recently trained pastoralists in Ethiopia to watch for warning signs of drought. Some 12 million pastoralists here travel great distance to find grazing land and water sources for their livestock daily. IFAD is counting on its investment in training to avert any future humanitarian crisis like the one unfolding now in the Horn of Africa.
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UNDP (September 2011) | This video highlights the activities of the UNDP in water management amid recurrant drought in Somalia
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Daily Motion (July 2011) | Climate change poses a serious threat to the population of the Mahafaly Plateau, one of the most arid parts of Madagascar. A water management plan developed by the Worldwide Fund for Nature helps local tribes make agriculture more sustainable.
It's a vicious circle: because of climate change, drought has become a serious problem on the Mahafaly Plateau. But at the same time, locals are clearing forests to use the land for farming, thereby exacerbating their environmental problems. The WWF is now assisting local communities in improving the management and use of the little water available to them.
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Delta Farm Press (January 2011) | Farming is a risky business, but nowhere is it more risky than in Africa where drought or insects can wipe out a family’s livelihood. For many years, farmers in Africa had no way to insure themselves against losses. But an innovative new program in Kenya called Index Insurance is helping protect growers against losses and allowing them expand their production and landholdings. Dr. Marco Ferroni explained the new program in this interview at the 2010 World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa.
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