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The role of conservation programs in drought risk adaptation

United States of America - gov, 2013

This report evaluates the extent to which farms facing higher levels of drought risk are more likely to participate in conservation programs, and finds a strong link between drought risk and program participation. It examines drought risk adaptation, defined as the choices that farmers make in response to drought risk exposure, and addresses the policy uncertainty by examining the role of drought risk within agricultural conservation programs and considering potential changes in conservation program design, such as adjustments in contract ranking criteria or changes in eligibility requirements ...

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The role of conservation programs in drought risk adaptation

  Available online: https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=45067
United States Department of Agriculture
Published by: United States of America - gov ; 2013
This report evaluates the extent to which farms facing higher levels of drought risk are more likely to participate in conservation programs, and finds a strong link between drought risk and program participation. It examines drought risk adaptation, defined as the choices that farmers make in response to drought risk exposure, and addresses the policy uncertainty by examining the role of drought risk within agricultural conservation programs and considering potential changes in conservation program design, such as adjustments in contract ranking criteria or changes in eligibility requirements.

Language(s): English

Format: Digital (Free)
Tags: Natural hazards ; Drought ; Food Safety ; Agroclimatology Add tag

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Managing drought risk on the ranch: a planning guide for great plains ranchers

National Drought Mitigation Center ; United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), 2012

This guide is designed to help rangeland managers to better prepare for and manage drought. For ranchers in the United States, drought can be defined as too little soil moisture to meet the needs of dominant forage species during their rapid growth windows. The longer you wait to make decisions, the fewer options you will have available to you and producers who focus on increasing flexibility and maximizing the health of resources are more likely to find solutions during drought that minimize painful decisions with limited resources. Accordingly, having a plan will help producers get through a ...

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Managing drought risk on the ranch: a planning guide for great plains ranchers

  Available online: http://drought.unl.edu/Portals/2/Ranchplan%20Images/Ranchplan%20Documents/ranch% [...]
National Drought Mitigation Center ; United States Department of Agriculture
Published by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) ; 2012
This guide is designed to help rangeland managers to better prepare for and manage drought. For ranchers in the United States, drought can be defined as too little soil moisture to meet the needs of dominant forage species during their rapid growth windows. The longer you wait to make decisions, the fewer options you will have available to you and producers who focus on increasing flexibility and maximizing the health of resources are more likely to find solutions during drought that minimize painful decisions with limited resources. Accordingly, having a plan will help producers get through a short- or long-term drought while minimizing damages.

Language(s): English

Format: Digital (Free)
Tags: Natural hazards ; Drought Preparedness and Mitigation ; Guide ; Agrometeorology ; Food Safety ; United States of America Add tag

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AGM, 11. Agricultural drought indices : proceedings of an expert meeting

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Motha Raymond P.; Wilhite Donald A.; et al. - WMO, 2011 (WMO/TD-No. 1572)

The Murcia Expert Meeting is based on the outcomes of the Regional Workshop on Indices and Early Warning Systems for Drought which was held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in December, 2009. At the Lincoln workshop, drought experts examined what indices are used for meteorological, agricultural and hydrological drought and developed the Lincoln Declaration on Drought Indices. There was a consensus agreement that the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) should be used to characterize meteorological droughts by all NMHSs around the world. Several other of the recommendations formt eh Lin ...

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Agricultural drought indices: proceedings of an expert meeting

  Available online: http://www.whycos.org/WMO/clw/agm/documents/AgriculturalDroughtIndicesProceeding [...]
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Raymond P. Motha ; Donald A. Wilhite ; Deborah A. Wood ; United States Department of Agriculture ; National Drought Mitigation Center (Lincoln, United States) ; United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction ; Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino (España)
Event: Agricultural drought indices (2-4 June 2010; Murcia, Spain)
Published by: WMO ; 2011
The Murcia Expert Meeting is based on the outcomes of the Regional Workshop on Indices and Early Warning Systems for Drought which was held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in December, 2009. At the Lincoln workshop, drought experts examined what indices are used for meteorological, agricultural and hydrological drought and developed the Lincoln Declaration on Drought Indices. There was a consensus agreement that the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) should be used to characterize meteorological droughts by all NMHSs around the world. Several other of the recommendations formt eh Lincoln Declaration included establishment of two working groups with the objective of recommending, by the end of 2010, indices for global use to cope with agricultural and hydrological droughts. In this regard, the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) is co-organizing with WMO the meetings of the Working Groups on Agricultural (Spain - June 2010) and Hydrological Droughts Indices ( India - August 2010) and the outcomes from all of these workshops on drought indices will be finalized in a chapter on drought risks for the 2011 UN Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction.

Collection(s) and Series: WMO/TD- No. 1572; AGM- No. 11
Language(s): English

Format: Digital (Free), Hard copy (ill., maps)
Tags: Natural hazards ; Early warning systems ; Agriculture ; Drought ; Climate change ; Agricultural Meteorology Programme (AgMP) Add tag
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WMO Publications on Weather, Climate, and Agriculture (2011)

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AGM, 10. Management of Natural and Environmental Resources for Sustainable Agricultural Development : Proceedings of a Workshop held from February 13-16, 2006, in Portland, Oregon

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; Pasteris P.; United States Department of Agriculture (USDA); et al. - WMO, 2008 (WMO/TD-No. 1428)

Over the past two decades, there has been an increasing awareness of the potential damages that climate change, air and water pollution and inadequate natural resources management could induce upon human health, natural ecosystems and the economy. To address these concerns, considerable emphasis has been placed on sustainable development by many countries and international organizations. Accordingly, sustainable agricultural development has become a major issue of the 21 st century.

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Management of Natural and Environmental Resources for Sustainable Agricultural Development: Proceedings of a Workshop held from February 13-16, 2006, in Portland, Oregon

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World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; P. Pasteris ; United States Department of Agriculture ; Natural Resources Conservation Service ; World Agricultural Outlook Bound
Published by: WMO ; 2008
Over the past two decades, there has been an increasing awareness of the potential damages that climate change, air and water pollution and inadequate natural resources management could induce upon human health, natural ecosystems and the economy. To address these concerns, considerable emphasis has been placed on sustainable development by many countries and international organizations. Accordingly, sustainable agricultural development has become a major issue of the 21 st century.
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Collection(s) and Series: WMO/TD- No. 1428; AGM- No. 10
Language(s): English

Format: Digital (Free), Hard copy (ill.)
Tags: Agriculture ; Climate change ; Impact studies ; Agricultural Meteorology Programme (AgMP) Add tag
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Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - USDA, 1971-[...]

The Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin (WWCB) is jointly prepared by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The WWCB provides a vital source of information on weather, climate and agricultural developments worldwide, along with detailed charts and tables of agrometeorological information that are appropriate for the season.

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Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin

  Available online: http://www.usda.gov/oce/weather/pubs/Weekly/Wwcb/
United States Department of Agriculture
Published by: USDA
The Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin (WWCB) is jointly prepared by the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The WWCB provides a vital source of information on weather, climate and agricultural developments worldwide, along with detailed charts and tables of agrometeorological information that are appropriate for the season.

Language(s): English

Format: Digital (Free)
Archives access: 1971-[...]
Tags: Weather ; Agrometeorology ; United States of America Add tag

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