The steady growth in extreme weather events around the world signals that human-induced climate change is happening right now. In 2010 and 2011 we have witnessed unparalleled devastation around the world from record floods, fires, droughts, more frequent and intense tornadoes and hurricanes. In some countries, millions of acres of agricultural land have been lost due to flooding, while other co...

In order to have effective agricultural production the impacts of drought must be mitigated. An important aspect of mitigating the impacts of drought is an effective method of forecasting future drought events. In this study, three methods of forecasting short-term drought for short lead times are explored in the Awash River Basin of Ethiopia. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was the ...

Drought has been a major cause of agricultural disaster, yet how it affects the vulnerability of maize and wheat production in combination with several co-varying factors (i.e., phenological phases, agro-climatic regions, soil texture) remains unclear. Using a data synthesis approach, this study aims to better characterize the effects of those co-varying factors with drought and to provide crit...

Drought in the United Kingdom is a “hidden” pervasive risk, defined and perceived different ways by diverse stakeholders sectors. Scientists water managers distinguish meteorological, agricultural, hydrological, socio-economic drought. Historically triggers drought risk management have been demarcated solely specialist hydrological science terms using indices critical thresholds. This paper exp...

Drought is a major threat to agricultural production and drought tolerance is a prime target for molecular approaches to crop improvement. To achieve meaningful results, these approaches must be linked with suitable phenotyping protocols at all stages, such as the screening of germplasm collections, mutant libraries, mapping populations, transgenic lines and breeding materials and the design of...

One of the major problems in the real time decision of agricultural intelligence expert system is how to be obtained the real time information of crops growth and its close relation environment data. As result the extraction of crops planting areas and their spatial distribution and their growth variety, especially when the natural disaster arises, such as drought, its spatial distribution and ...

In the next decades, forage legumes are likely to become more important. However, predicted climate change may increase the risk of droughts and thus influence their agricultural performance. Decreases in yield due to water shortage are well documented, while influences on nutritive values are inconsistent. Therefore, we examined the effects of drought on crude protein (CP), neutral deterge...

Egerton University with a mandate to undertake empirical research and analysis on contemporary economic and agricultural policy issues in Kenya. The institute is widely recognized as a centre of excellence in policy analysis on topical agricultural and food security issues of the day, and in its wide dissemination of findings to government and other key stakeholders with a view to influencing p...

Over the past 40 years, drought has affected more people in world than any other natural hazard, affecting large segments of population and destroying resource base, livestock livelihoods. Recent projections show that events are expected to increase frequency intensity due climate change. According studies conducted by Food Agriculture Organization United Nations (FAO), 83% all damages losses c...