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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
Viet Nam: Government leads region in climate change challenge
9 Mar 2010, IRIN
Serious efforts are under way to respond to the impact of climate change in Vietnam but a lack of capacity and resources remains a challenge, experts say. Vietnam is the country most threatened by rising sea levels, according to World Bank studies...
- Facilitating community-managed disaster risk reduction15-26 Mar 2010, Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
- International drought symposium24-26 Mar 2010, United States of America (Riverside)
- Sustainable water management conference & exposition11-14 Apr 2010, Mexico (Albuquerque)
- Diploma in disaster managementKenya (Nairobi)
- Maestria en Ambiente Mitigacion y Prevencion de DesastresUniv Nacional de Ingenieria, Managua, Nicaragua
- Natural Hazards and DisastersWageningen Univ, Wageningen.
- Child rights and climate change adaptation: voices from Kenya and Cambodia2010, IDS; Plan Intl
- Canadians at risk: our exposure to natural hazards2010, ICLR
- Trade and climate change2009, UNEP; UNWTO
- Climate change vulnerability map of Southeast AsiaJan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
- Multiple climate hazard map of Southeast AsiaJan 2009, EEPSEA; IDRC
- Number of drought disasters recorded by EM-DAT (1974-2004)May 2009, UNISDR
| 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 |
External Online Resources on Drought
- 3R initiative: Be buffered
- FAO: Global information and early warning system (GIEWS)
- Humanitarian early warning system (HEWS): HEWSweb
- inTERRAgate
- Natural disaster awareness tool catalogue
- 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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