The discussion covered various issues, such as Convention synergies, drought management, governance, rural land use practices, and the integration of drought mitigation into investment planning and science and technology for drought mitigation.

For example water resources management and agriculture technologies that were introduced in West Africa after the 1972 drought.

Irrigation equipment testing Desertification and water management Water harvesting technologies Climate monitoring (Risk management) Strategies drought mitigation Refining analytical systems Strategies rehabilitation of degraded lands Efficient irrigation Water recycling

Because Mongolia was vulnerable to snowfall, drought, flash floods and earthquakes, it had adopted a new law to strengthen its disaster management system and created the National Disaster Management Agency.

16. Appeals to the United Nations and the international community to assist further in the strengthening of the region's capacity for sustainable water resource management and sanitation as well as to respond generously with respect to the drought situation in southern Africa, by supporting the region in its drought preparedness and management strategies

In Europe, the secretariat is assisting South Eastern European countries in cooperation with WMO in the establishment of a subregional drought management centre.

That's what drought does.

In the interests of sustainable development, Kenya had taken legislative and policy measures on environmental management, biodiversity, early warning systems, drought preparedness and monitoring, climate change and the ozone layer.

6. Urges the international community to render its assistance to the drought victims and for setting up national, subregional, regional and international disaster prevention, preparedness and management mechanisms, including early warning systems

Second, preparing for heat and drought.

The meeting agreed on the need for the establishment of a Balkan subregional drought management centre and requested that a second workshop be organized in 2005 on the terms of reference of the centre.

Some Parties emphasized their needs for adaptation research, particularly to address key vulnerable sectors, such as water resources management, including use of groundwater resources and development of drought tolerant and disease resistant crops and livestock.

According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, just over 40 percent of Arizona is experiencing at least extreme drought, the second highest category, weather.com reported.

(ii) Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment and

The data from the IRS satellites are being put to use in important applications such as estimating agricultural crop acreage and yield, drought monitoring and assessment, flood mapping, land use and land cover mapping, wasteland management, survey and management of ocean and marine resources and of forest resources, urban planning and mineral prospecting.

Parties were called upon to integrate measures to prevent and combat desertification and to mitigate the effects of drought by means of relevant policies and programmes, such as forest management, as well as poverty eradication and sustainable development strategies.

Some Parties proposed developing national drought policies to mitigate the adverse impacts of periodic droughts and indicated their need for a warning system to monitor the effects of drought.

The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

Development of early warning systems for food security and drought forecasting

Development of early warning systems for food security and drought forecasting

Development of early warning systems for food security and drought forecasting

Severe drought also threatened the lives of nearly 10 million people.

In contrast, other measures require research and development of new systems, e.g. new drought resistant varieties or improved systems of water management for efficient or extended irrigation which might not be feasible without financial support from outside sources and from the national government.

Noting with concern the recurrent drought that affects Ethiopia, and its consequences,

Noting with concern the recurrent drought that affects Ethiopia, and its consequences,

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

A drought or pest that destroys a harvest turns subsistence into starvation.

A severe drought was reported in the south west of the country.

Gravely concerned at the magnitude of the recurrent drought, which affects millions owing to the serious crop failures in drought prone parts of the country that have weak infrastructures and low development capacities,

Concerned by the recurrent drought, which still affects millions owing to the serious crop failures in drought prone parts of the country and the pastoralist areas that have weak infrastructures and low development capacities,

Concerned by the recurrent drought, which still affects millions owing to the serious crop failures in drought prone parts of the country and the pastoralist areas that have weak infrastructures and low development capacities,

Then in the same time, around 1980, we had a very big drought.

In severe drought periods nobody has seen this water body getting dried up.

Last year the region was visited by the worst drought in 60 years.

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

Some Parties proposed measures to reduce mitigate the risks of floods and drought.

Development of early warning systems for food security and drought forecasting 20 8

Development of early warning systems for food security and drought forecasting 55 14

Development of early warning systems for food security and drought forecasting 82 17

Rehabilitation and conservation is being taken forward in certain regions by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, and through the operational programme of the Global Environment Facility on sustainable land management.

Here, here, Kenya, East Africa, they've actually just come out of a long drought.

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.