a comprehensive assessment of drought environmental and socio-economic impacts provides critical information to rational decisions supporting drought mitigation policies and programs. the objectives of this study were to survey environmental and socio-economic impacts of drought in guilan province, and prioritize them from the viewpoint of paddy farmers. this study was a descriptive-correlation...

OBJECTIVES The present study was a qualitative investigation of the impact of drought on rural families of southern New South Wales, Australia, with particular emphasis on the concept of resilience in times of stress. The aim was to provide insight, from a psychological perspective, into the experiences of rural farmers in a time of adversity, and to identify the coping resources utilized by th...

Water shortage crisis is an issue that has led to drastic changes in different agricultural policies, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. Uncertainty in the amount of resources, e.g. water, used for agricultural production entails risk for farmers' income and cropping pattern changes. In the present study, the robust optimization model was used for optimal allocation of arable lands of Khor...

Rain-water-harvesting is one of the means by which agricultural production can be increased to meet the growing food demands in all regions. The study indentified the factor affecting rain-water-harvesting technology adoption for irrigation and farmers practice in water harvesting against drought in lowland woreda, Eastern Hararghe, Oromia Region. Both primary and secondary data were collected ...

introduction agricultural sustainability is regarded as a key factor for long term profitability of farming in rural areas. researchers believe that an agricultural system is sustainable if it includes environmental quality, economic viability, and employment and social performance. agricultural sustainability can be analyzed on diverse spatial scales, from the field to a regional, national or ...

This article presents a technique for performing vulnerability assessments, using measures of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. Historically, vulnerability assessments have focused on analyzing the hazard itself, absent information on its causes and mitigations. The vulnerability assessment method VAM , presented herein, acquires data and information from affected stakeholders to as...

Drought stress occurring during the reproductive growth stage leads to considerable reductions in crop production and has become an important limiting factor for food security globally. In order to explore the possible role of drought priming (pre-exposure of the plants to mild drought stress) on the alleviation of a severe drought stress event later in development, wheat plants were subjected ...

the aim of this research is to examine individual and professional farmers capabilities concerning the extent of using the activities which would control the drought in tafresh county. this research is of non- experimental type in terms of goal, function and possibility of controlling variables and from methodological point of view it is of the descriptive and correlational type and from data p...

Drought stress is a serious adverse factor limiting growth and productivity of sunflower. Evaluation of defense systems is important for producing resistant cultivars. In this study, some agro-morphological and molecular characteristics of six sunflower lines were evaluated under normal and irrigation at 40 and 60% of field capacity in randomized complete block design (RCBD). The results showed...