Among natural disasters, drought gets relatively less attention from policymakers, even though it has serious long-term socioeconomic implications. Drought adversely affects sustainable development and exacerbates poverty among millions of people who depend directly on the land as a source of livelihood. Many Central Asian countries suffer from frequent droughts along with challenges in water resource management, that can lead to failures of crop production and increase in food insecurity.
Geospatial information can serve as an important tool in monitoring drought and water resource management. Despite the significant progress achieved in this sub-region regarding the use of geospatial information, these applications still seem underutilized in the drought and water resource management, primarily because of scientific, technological, organizational and institutional gaps in geospatial information systems.
Additional Documents
Presentations
- 1. ESCAP Key Objective of Project (ENG and RUS).pdf
- 2. Drought Monitoring and Early Warning in Kyrgyzstan.pdf
- 3. CropWatch and DroughtWatch.pdf
- 4. DroughtWatch for Kyrgyzstan System Introduction.pdf
- 5. Finding and Lessons Learned of Pilot Applications of Drought Watch Mongolia.pdf
- 6. Proposed Model Decision-Making Tools for Drought Monitoring and Early Warning with Emphasis Geospatial-Statistic Data.pdf
- 8. Korean Government Drought Management Policy.pdf
- 9. Application of Regional Drought and Crop Yield Info. System in Lower Mekong Region and its Applicability in Kyrgyzstan.pdf
- 10. Geospatial Statistical Hydro – Thermal Indicator for Drought Monitoring in Changing Climate Climate Conditions.pdf
- 11. Use of Remote Sensing Data for Drought Monitoring and Agrometeorology.pdf
- 12. Approaches to Drought Early Warning in the Changing Climate Conditions.pdf
- 13. Drought Risk in Changing Climate.pdf
- 14. Measures to Combat Desertification and Drought in Uzbekistan.pdf
- 15. Drought Problems in Central Asia and the Need for Drought Monitoring and Early Warning.pdf
- 16. Enterprise Solution Service (ESS - Asia) and Sample Projects.pdf
- 17. FAO From Global Agriculture Drought Monitoring to Country Level using Geospatial Information.pdf
- 18. FAO KG - Status of CASILM-2 FAO Project, Kyrgyzstan (ENG and RUS).pdf
- 19. Applications of 3D Wall Block Technologies for Disaster Risk Reduction.pdf
- 20. Suggestion Steps of Works-Development of Decision-Making Tools for Geo-drought Monitoring and Early Warning in Central Asia.pdf
- List of Participants 20190704.pdf
