Many regions in the world are suffering from agricultural drought, ie, shortage of available water for plant growth. Agricultural drought is not only caused by lack of rain, but is very often associated with an imbalanced partitioning of rainfall. In many drylands, great amounts of water are lost as deep drainage and runoff feeding the blue water resource, ie, the water in dams, lakes, rivers and aquifers, at the expense of green water, ie, the soil moisture generated from infiltrated rain that is available for root water uptake by plants. Moreover, a great part of the green water resource is lost as soil evaporation. This imbalanced rainfall partitioning can be improved by adopting a variety of soil-water management practices. This article illustrates how water can be harvested more effectively and crop productivity increased with some examples of recently finished and on-going studies in different overseas continents. However, as soil-water management will surely not solve all problems, other suggestions for providing more food and fibre per drop hence building resilience against drought will be given.