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Observational records from 1950 onwards and climate projections for the 21st century provide evidence that droughts are a recurrent climate feature in large parts of Europe, especially in the Mediterranean, but also in western, south-eastern and central Europe. Trends over the past 60 years show...
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further increase due to climate change. While some of the drivers of drought risk are well known for some systems and regions …, drought risks and impacts remain hard to assess an d quantify. The European Drought Risk Atlas is a considerable step towards … impact-based drought assessment and can support the development and implementation of drought management and adaptation …
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, drought conditions are back again in large parts of Europe, particularly in the Mediterranean region, eastern Europe and the …
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After the severe and prolonged drought events that impacted northern Africa during the last 6 years, and Europe for … over 2 years, drought conditions are again affecting large parts of the Mediterranean region. Long-lasting, above …
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. In this study, we empirically investigate drought impacts on farm enterprises by linking financial, agricultural and … run a set of panel regressions with time and farm fixed effects to estimate the effect of changes in drought intensity on … all) of the estimated drought effects are significant, consistent across various specifications and of the expected sign …
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negatively affects corn or soybean yields. We also find that it can mitigate the impact of drought on soybean yields. We explore … how wider use of conservation tillage might offset the increase in drought-induced downside risk to soybean yields under …
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-arid regions where farming was vulnerable to drought. Farmers who migrated to the region had to adapt their crops, techniques, and … drought. In this paper, we examine why homestead failure occurred in the Great Plains, by analyzing two episodes in western … perceive drought. Homesteaders had neither an analytical framework nor sufficient data for predicting fluctuations in rainfall …
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