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 …

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 …

Many regions in the world are suffering from agricultural droughts and floods, two sides of
the same coin. They result in shortage of available water for plant growth or accumulation of …

Doughts resulting in complete crop failure are common in Eastern and Southern Africa. We
are at present experiencing a regional crisis, where crop failures related to drought are …

The drylands of semi-arid tropics face multiple challenges of land degradation, water
scarcity, climate change, low agricultural productivity, food insecurity and migration. Soils of …

Water resources are most indispensable for global management capacities combined with
the need of sustainable, protective use for a most possible reduction of negative impacts to …

To minimize the impact of drought, soil needs to capture the rainwater that falls on it, store as
much of that water as possible for future plant use, and allow for plant roots to penetrate and …

Large areas of crops are now grown under water-stressed conditions on non-irrigated and
and under limited irrigation in semi-arid and arid regions. In the future, this area of water …

Semi-arid and arid areas are home to one sixth of the world's population. 1 Most of these are
poor agro-pastoralists who depend totally on the renewable natural resources for their …

Rainfed areas are the hot spot of poverty, water scarcity, land degradation, and low social
and physical capital development. However, vast potential of rainfed agriculture remains …