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Session 2 – Tuesday March 12th

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Session 2 – Drought Vulnerability and Impact Assessment – Tuesday 12th

Abstract Nr.

Title

Authors

Affiliation

26

The response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes

Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano1
Célia Gouveia2,3
Jesús Julio Camarero4
Santiago Begueríae, Ricardo Trigo2,5
Juan I. López-Moreno1
César Azorín-Molina1
Edmond Pasho1
Jorge Lorenzo-Lacruz1
Jesús Revuelto1
Enrique Morán-Tejeda1
Arturo Sanchez-Lorenzo6

1Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Zaragoza, Spain 50059
2CGUL, IDL, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
3Escola Superior de Tecnologia, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal
4ARAID-Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
5Departamento de Engenharias, Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa, Portugal
6Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

27

Implementation of Ground Level Drought Mitigation Strategies: Process and Impacts in Seventy Drought Prone Districts of India

Ch. Srinivasarao
B. Venkateswarlu
Sreenath Dixit

Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (Indian Council of Agricultural Research), Andhra Pradesh, India

28

Drought Vulnerability and Impact Assessment for Asia Pacific Region. Drought Vulnerability and Impact Assessment.

Narendra Kumar Choudhary
Lalit P.Chaudhari

Institute For Sustainable Development And Research, ISDR India

29

Assessing Vulnerability to Agricultural Drought: The Case Study of the Uzbekistan

V.E. Chub1
U. Abdullaev2
G. Khasankhanova2
R. Taryannikova1

1Centre of Hydrometeorological Service (Uzhydromet), Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2Design and Research UZGIP Institute, MAWR Tashkent, Uzbekistan

30

Economic Impact of Hydrological Droughts for Irrigated Agriculture in Chile

Marina Gil1
Guillermo Donoso2

1CEIGRAM, Universidad Politéctnica de Madrid
2Departamento de Economía Agraria, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

31

An assessment of pastoral field schools as a food security risk reduction approach in the districts of Nakapiripirit (Karamoja-Uganda) and North pokot (Kenya)

Roger Maxi Ddungu1
Emmanuel Mutebi1
Robertson Mbidde2

1Crusade for Environmental Awareness Agency (CEAA), Masaka, Uganda
2Institute for Environment and Development Makerere,University, kampala, Uganda

31

Multi – pronged approach to exploring climate and range land management

Lawrence Makumbi1
Jacinta Zzansanze1
Hilda Kabagenyi2
Emmanuel Mutebi2 

1Millennium Environmental Climate Change Research Alliance (MEHRA), Mubende, Uganda
2Makerere University, Department of Environment and Agriculture, Kampala, Uganda

33

The Effect of Climate Change Adaptation on Rural Community Livelihoods

Winifred Nakyambadde1
Faridah Nakanwagi1
Paul William Kayemba2

Evans Ntambi2 

1Research Environmental Awareness Agency (CEAA), Rakai, Uganda
2Institute for Environment and Development, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

34

EXTREME DROUGHT VULNERABILITY IN NORTH WEST NIGERIA

Stanley Obinna Eze

 

35

Farmers’ adaptive behaviour to climatic change

Eddy Jacobson Mutawe1
Robert Mukasa1
Mary Namugenyi2 

1Rural-Urban  Change Agency (RUCA), Uganda
2Makerere  University, Kampala, Uganda

36

Socio-economic drought hazard and risk characterization in Asian developing countries using applied threshold level method with global hydrologic model outputs

Gusyev Maksym1
Toshio Okazumi1
Sangeun Lee1
Youngjoo Kwak1
Badri Bhakta Shrestha1
Takeuchi Kuniyoshi1
Jun Magome2

1International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) under the auspices of UNESCO, Public Works Research Institute (PWRI), Japan
2International Research Center for River Basin Environment (ICRE), Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Japan

37

Review of agrometeorological products/services to improve implementation and impact

Josef Eitzinger1
Andreja Susnik2
Branislava Lalic3
Dimos P. Anastasiou4
Piotr Struzik5
Jerzy Kozyra6
Elena Mateescu7
Federica Rossi8
Luigi Mariani9
Christoph Spirig10
Levent Saylan11
Ulrich Otte12
Cathleen Fruehauf12
Henrik Eckersten13

1University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria
2Environmental Agency of Republic of Slovenia
3University of Novi Sad, Serbia
4Consultant, Greece
5Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Poland
6Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation-State Research Institute in Pulawy, Poland
7National Meteorological Administration, Romania
8Instituto di Biometeorologia, Italy
9Consultant, Italy
10MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
11Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
12Deutscher Wetterdienst, Deutschland
13Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

38

Effects of drought to fresh water protein supply in rural household in Kwakwa bakundu

Mary Ngowoh Itoe

Association for the Management of Natural resources Agriculture Talents and Health Development, Meme, Cameroon

39

Cocoa Agroforestry and Drought Mitigation

TCHARBUAHBOKENGO NFINN

The Federation of Environmental and Ecological Diversity For Agricultural Revampment and Human Rights (FEEDAR & HR), Republic of Cameroon

40

International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management

Kamoto Minour