Understanding Your
Risk and Impacts
Other
Links/Resources
Current Drought-Related Impacts and Humanitarian Issues
USDA’s Drought
Information Page provides comprehensive information on USDA’s
drought assistance programs and other related resources. All Secretarial
Disaster Designations for drought are included here in map form.
The Disaster Help website is part of the President’s Disaster Management Egov Initiative and has a wide array of drought assistance links and resources.
The Disaster Center maintains an Agricultural Disaster Drought and Water News section that includes links to all relevant disaster information for each state.
The National Weather Service’s Significant Weather Event Maps
NOAA–OGP’s Climate Information Project provides excellent daily updates as well as weekly and monthly summaries of climate-weather related impacts from both near and far. They also archive these reports.
Drought Assessment and Mitigation in Southwest Asia is designed to be a portal of drought-related studies, news and information for the southwest Asia region and as a meeting place for scientists, managers and policy makers dealing with different aspects of droughts.
WAOB World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimate reports contain information and forecasts of world supply-use balances of grains and products.
FAO–World Agricultural Information Centre
VITA Situation Reports via the Center for International Disaster Information
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Appeals and Situation Reports
Drought, Floods, & Prayer provides a forum for prayer response to drought and flood events around the world.
ReliefWeb is an excellent resource for information about current droughts and other natural disasters.
“Dry
Times”, an article from the National Wildlife Federation about
the impacts of drought on wildlife.
Drought News
News reports are another way to monitor drought, often
yielding valuable information about drought’s effects on people,
economies, and agriculture. Linked below are a few good starting points
for conducting your own search for drought news. Many of these sites have
their own search tools that can help you find relevant material quickly.
General News Services:
United States Newspaper List
Environmental Legislative News (U.S. News):
The United
States Federal Register
Capitol Reports / Environmental News
Link
Agricultural News:
USDA, Farm
Services Agency, News Release Index
USDA Market News
Brownfield’s Ag News (Midwest
Ag News)
US Farm Report
Specific International News:
ReliefWeb: National and
International news on drought and other disaster relief efforts.
Africa News Online
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