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Making the leap from drought monitoring to managing agricultural drought risks in India (WLE-IWMI)

The South Asia Drought Monitoring System (SADMS), created by the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) and partners, provided real-time drought severity data at micro-level to three Indian districts. The crop yields and incomes in these areas were significantly higher than in th...

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Main Author: CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems
Format: Case Study
Language:Inglés
Published: 2018
Subjects:
research
yields
ecosystems
water
drought
monitoring
data
land
government
south asia
time
scale
asia
model
world bank
indian
programmes
system
case studies
agrifood systems
rural development
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121768
Summary:The South Asia Drought Monitoring System (SADMS), created by the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) and partners, provided real-time drought severity data at micro-level to three Indian districts. The crop yields and incomes in these areas were significantly higher than in the control areas. As a result, the Indian government and World Bank plan to scale out the model.

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