Drought and water scarcity
This publication shows how the three pillars of drought management: (1) monitoring; (2) vulnerability assessment; and (3) risk mitigation and response, help to integrate the management of the two phenomena.
Drought Management
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Activists call for measures to tackle agrarian crisis
As testimonies of farmers’ distress from drought-hit regions of Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telengana and Rajasthan were unfolded in the national Capital on Sunday, experts
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Confronting drought in Africa’s drylands: opportunities for enhancing resilience
This book focuses on the medium-term prospects (over the next two decades) for increasing the resilience to drought and other shocks of people living in dryland areas of East and West Africa. Increasing
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Cabinet approves central system for water mgmt
With climate change, frequent extreme weather events and an increasingly unpredictable monsoon impacting millions each year, the Centre has cleared a proposal to set up a centralised system for providing
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Water management and resilience in agriculture
<p>Water management requires multiple levels of policy action. The problem is not a shortage of water, but the absence of proper mechanisms for its augmentation, conservation, distribution, and effi cient
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Experts: Tech to predict drought
Lucknow: While the state is facing one of the worst farm crises ever, experts who took part in a recent workshop organised by the World Bank and irrigation department, suiggested technologies which can
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Environmental group gives California mixed marks for drought management
More than four years into a drought, California's efforts to manage the crisis have produced mixed results, according to a report card issued Monday by a leading environmental nonprofit organization.
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Ireland extends additional €2m aid to Ethiopia’s drought relief
The government of Ireland on Tuesday announced that it will provide an additional €2 million to drought affected people in Ethiopia. According to Irish Aid in Addis Ababa, the latest announcement was
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GoS and (AfDB) Launch Drought Resilience and Sustainable Livelihood Program
On Monday 22 November 2015, the African Development Bank and the Government of Sudan, in collaboration with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), launched the Sudan component of Phase
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Government pours $12.7mn in drought and salinity recovery
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to support 19 provinces across the country which have been affected by drought and salinity intrusion with VND284.5 billion (US$12.7 million) in aid. The aid
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Developing system robustness analysis for drought risk management: an application on a water supply reservoir
<p>Droughts will likely become more frequent, greater in magnitude and longer in duration in the future due to climate change. Already in the present climate, a variety of drought events may occur with