grains in Zimbabwe, and assesses the impacts of the new varieties on yields using national aggregate yield data. The paper …

Drought is endemic to southern Africa. In Zimbabwe farmers have been experiencing drought once every two to three years …. Relief agencies have traditionally responded to drought by providing farmers with enough seed and fertilizer to enable them … community to test more sustainable farming strategies that will increase food production levels even under drought conditions …

grains in Zimbabwe, and assesses the impacts of the new varieties on yields using national aggregate yield data. The paper …

supply during the drought. Targeting artificial rains in the agricultural regions and forests can be also effective for … minimization of drought sequences and reduction the risk of vegetation fires. The basic idea for risk minimization and economic …

combat land degradation and drought in a latitudinal gradient. This study was carried out in Chile, in a latitude gradient … of the different set of the strategies applied to fight against desertification and drought varies in a latitudinal …

Water Scarcity and drought are recurrent phenomena in China. In the context of environmental change, an increasing … tendency in drought frequency and severity is observed in China in recent years. Therefore, it is imperative to take necessary … initiatives to reduce the impacts of drought. In this paper, an attempt is made to identify the best water management strategies …

drought variability at the local scale. We selected three medium-sized catchments on the Catalan littoral: Fluvià, Tordera and … Siurana. We employed both instrumental and simulated temperature and rainfall data to calculate two multi-scalar drought … calculated 24-month SPI and SPEI values for the instrumental and simulated periods, and no changes were found in drought …

found drought was the most common disaster with a frequency of 49 %, followed by chilling injures (19.46 %). The frequency … northeastern China, drought in northern and western China, and rainstorms in southwestern China. Our study highlighted that the …

water supply during prolonged and severe droughts, assessing drought risk becomes one of the key tasks of water …-resources planning and management in Taiwan. Well-prepared drought mitigation measures require assimilation of physical environment of … droughts and human socioeconomic factors. An index-based approach is presented in this study to evaluate drought risk at …