create an increasingly critical role for government intervention. In India, allocations of drought relief from state to local … governments systematically deviate from national guidelines – objective environmental criteria that define drought. To assess the … relief relative to national guidelines is costly. I show that failure to respond to drought is associated with a 4% drop in …

America's worst drought stretched the 1930s, but we know little about the influence of the drought itself compared to … the associated soil erosion and dust storms. This paper studies heterogeneity in the migration response to drought by … relating migration decisions recorded in the 1940 census to county drought conditions. Drought increased migration primarily …

of droughts in the southwestern United States. This almost two-decade long drought results from increasing temperatures …

in the selection of adaptation pathways. Scholarship emanating out of the Cape Town drought (2015–2018) has drawn … attention to the effect of the drought on public mentalities and their response to the drought, transitional governance … changed for private actors that secured water through off-grid means. This is a contrarian view to the dominant drought …

effects on the paddy production not only in Maha but also in the preceding of Yala cultivation seasons. In Sri Lanka drought … 2013/2014 drought has seriously damaged the agricultural production (specially the paddy production) in both Yala and Maha … cultivation seasons. Over one million people in Sri Lanka have been severely affected by the drought in 2013/2014 for many …

more drought‐tolerant and better adapted to marginal production conditions. Whether MV adoption is a risk reducing … adoption does not necessarily represent an effective means of coping with drought. Finally, findings show that MV growers are …

the impacts of drought on two rural towns in Victoria, Australia and explores what lessons can be drawn from local … experiences. The research suggests that previous responses to drought by governments have been largely ineffectual and as such, we … question whether there is a need to reshape institutional understandings of what adapting to drought might mean. This research …

vulnerable to these effects. This study was undertaken to assess if various drought-proofing and drought-relief programs are … relevant as Bihar has experienced four drought years since 2009. The drought in 2009 led to an increase in the number of poor … government of Bihar runs a number of drought-proofing and drought-relief programs to mitigate the impact of drought, but with …

insecurity among labour constrained households in times of drought. Coping with the effects of drought has not only proved to be … drought in labour constrained households in rural Zimbabwe at the same time examining the social construction of vulnerability … government drought mitigation interventions in to sustainable livelihoods base for household food security are examined. The …