Drought management.

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.

Today, UNSO may be characterized as a special programme in dryland management, desertification control and 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

Drought

Drought!

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.

23. Drought presents a special challenge for effective early warning owing to its complex and protracted development. Consistent monitoring of vulnerability to drought is required because of its widespread and often devastating effects that strike at the most basic human needs of food, water, shelter and security through incremental deprivation. Effective drought management, as opposed to drought relief, is dependent upon the early identification of risk indicators.

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.

The Fund has joined forces with the other major UN agriculture and food agencies FAO and WFP to establish the Technical Panel on Drought Management for the World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction, building on IFAD apos s pioneering work in drought vulnerability mapping and the strengthening of local and national drought coping strategies.

That's what drought does.

(g) Desertification and drought

Here, in the drought...

The lessons from the SPA and indeed IFAD apos s Regular Programme strongly suggest that drought and desertification must be addressed through land management by resource users.

EXPERIENCING SERIOUS DROUGHT AND OR

mitigate the effects of drought

A number have focused on pastoral management and conservation of rangelands, sustainable patterns of land and water resources use, combating environmental degradation and assistance to drought displaced persons.

Data from IRS satellites is being put to use for several applications in the country like agricultural crop acreage and yield estimation, drought management and assessment, flood mapping, landuse and land cover mapping, wasteland management, ocean marine resources survey, urban planning, mineral prospecting, forest resources survey and management.

Second, preparing for heat and drought.

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment

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.

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Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment early

Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment early

Biophysical indicators relating to desertification and drought

IGADD Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and Development

DROUGHT AND OR DESERTIFICATION, PARTICULARLY IN AFRICA

EXPERIENCING SERIOUS DROUGHT AND OR DESERTIFICATION, PARTICULARLY

40. He described a number of regional efforts undertaken by SADC to counter the grave effects of drought and desertification, and noted that freshwater management strategies were in place as well.

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

(ii) Drought and desertification monitoring and assessment and

warning systems for mitigating the effects of drought

desertification and or mitigating the effects of drought

warning systems for mitigating the effects of drought

Socio economic indicators related to desertification and drought

The programme is conducted in close cooperation with UNDP, the Office to Combat Desertification and Drought and UNITAR and is developing closer ties with the regional information management activities of FAO and WMO.

(f) The development and implementation of integrated plans for coastal zone management, water resources and agriculture, and for the protection and rehabilitation of areas affected by drought and desertification, as well as floods

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.

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The country often suffers from drought and locust plagues.

Recovery from drought poses a set of unique challenges.