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Drought
Drought originates from a deficiency of precipitation over an extended period of time, usually a season or more. This deficiency results in a water shortage for some activity, group, or environmental sector. Different from other hazards in that it develops slowly, sometimes over years, and its onset can be masked by a number of factors. Drought can be devastating: water supplies dry up, crops fail to grow, animals die and malnutrition and ill health become widespread. source: WMO
Expert warns of food crisis in West and Central Africa
3 Feb 2012, IOL
'The [drought] season will come earlier and last longer than usual. This will leave the Sahel hugely reliant on food imports, which will have to be acquired at sky-high prices. This could spell disaster for millions of people whose food needs will rise as their purchasing power plummets'...
- Community action planning in disaster prone communities11-17 Mar 2012, Uganda (Mbarara)
- 2012 Sustainable water management conference18-21 Mar 2012, United States of America (Portland, Oregon)
- IWA water security - Resilience 201225-27 Mar 2012, Australia (Sydney)
- International diploma in disaster managementINTER-CEPT, Kenya (Nairobi)
- Diploma in disaster managementKenya (Nairobi)
- Maestria en Ambiente Mitigacion y Prevencion de DesastresUNI, Managua, Nicaragua
A dangerous delay: the cost of late response to early warnings in the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa2012, Oxfam Intl; Save the Children UK
Climate change and disaster risk management: towards a resilient South Asia2011, CANSA
Munich Re: Worldwide distribution of natural catastrophes in 2011Jan 2012, Munich Re
Physical Exposure to Drought in Asia-PacificMay 2011, OCHA-ROAP
- Counting disaster: Who's dying where?2011, BBC
- Los Páramos: Climate change threatens a fragile ecosystem in the Andes2011, IRI
- Poverty over: climate change2011, Christian Aid
| Countries | People exposed per year
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| 1 | China | 71,297,700 |  |
| 2 | India | 58,912,300 | |
| 3 | USA | 26,055,000 | |
| 4 | Pakistan | 11,872,500 | |
| 5 | Ethiopia | 9,342,200 | |
Source of data: 2009 Global Assessment Report |
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| Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database |
- Director, programme qualityAfghanistan (Kabul / Roving), Afghanaid
- Food security, early warning, early response (EWER) manager / IMPROVE projectSouth Sudan (Bor, Jonglei State), CRS
- Administrative coordinatorNairobi, Solidarités Intl
External Online Resources on Drought
- 3R initiative: Be buffered
- Disaster risk reduction (DRR) project portal for Asia and the Pacific
- FAO: Global information and early warning system (GIEWS)
- Humanitarian early warning system (HEWS): HEWSweb
- inTERRAgate
- IRI: Climate risk knowledge for water
- Natural disaster awareness tool catalogue
- PREVIEW Global Risk Data Platform
- SATCA: Early warning system for Central America
- UN-Water
- UNFCCC: local coping strategies database
- US drought portal
- World AgroMeteorological Information Service
- World Bank: A new way of rice cultivation - online toolkit
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