About

GlobeDrought aims to develop a web-based information system for comprehensively characterising drought events. The project will produce a spatially explicit description of drought risks by considering three components: drought hazard, exposure and vulnerability. It will investigate how droughts impact water resources, crop productivity, trade in food products and the need for international food aid.

Source: adapted from IPCC (2014)

Quantification of the drought risk by integrating the components hazard, vulnerability, and exposure (source: IPCC, 2014).

Approach and work plan

Analyze past drought events and establish drought risks on a global scale
Perform a detailed analysis of drought events and drought risks for selected regions
Analyze the impact of droughts on selected regions and on trade flows in food products
Develop and test an integrated drought information system

Source: GlobeDrought consortium

We are going to analyze the development of different types of drought, their impacts and factors that help to buffer hydrological and agricultural systems against drought.

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