The FAO Drought portal is a global knowledge-sharing platform to support countries and stakeholders in enhancing the resilience of agriculture and improving food security. The Drought portal builds on the Integrated Drought Management (IDM) approach, to foster the transition from crisis-led and reactive responses to risk-based and proactive measures.
The Drought portal provides resources towards the following objectives:
- improve livelihoods’ resilience by presenting field-tested solutions and lessons learnt, ready-to-use tools and methodologies, and global knowledge resources on the three pillars of IDM;
- respond to emergencies by showcasing crisis-driven responses and post-disaster toolkits;
- support resource mobilization and allocation by hosting the Drought Tracker tool; and
- facilitate the learning by including innovative materials related to all aspects of drought management.
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Watch "Negotiating resilience: developing capacities on drought policy for African countries"
FAO organized technical training aimed at enhancing African participants' negotiation skills by equipping them with knowledge and practices for policy development related to global drought challenges. The participants shared their insights on how the training prepared them for negotiating global policy targets aimed at improving drought resilience in their regions.
Watch "Negotiating resilience: developing capacities on drought policy"
FAO organized technical training to enhance participants' negotiation skills by providing them with knowledge and practices for policy development in relation to global drought challenges. Participants shared their views on how the training prepared them for negotiating global policy targets regarding drought resilience.
Watch "Negotiating resilience: developing capacities on drought policy for multiple regions"
FAO organized technical training to enhance participants' negotiation skills by providing them with knowledge and practices for policy development in relation to global drought challenges. Participants shared their views on how the training prepared them for negotiating global policy targets regarding drought resilience.
Watch FAO on the national Zambia TV2: Climate Check show on the regional drought workshop in Lusaka
The national TV2 of Zambia interviewed the stakeholders of the regional workshop "Support the implementation of national drought plans: integrating national drought plans into National Action Plans (NAPs)", held in Lusaka (5-7/09/23). It focused on building capacities on effective planning of drought management and implementation of drought plans.
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Highlighted publications
Watch "The Drought-Fragility-Finance nexus" FAO Side Event
at the UN 2023 Water Conference
Events
Closing the drought communication gap: youth harnessing media for policy-to-public action
18/08/2026
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
FAO side event "Promotion of climate change measures in paddy fields" at the 25th ICID Congress
04/11/2023
Side Event at the 25th ICID Congress, India
Planning for integrated drought management in Central Asia
16/10/2023 - 18/10/2023
Istanbul, Türkiye,
16 -18 October 2023
Support the implementation of national drought plans: integrating national drought plans into National Action Plans (NAPs) - Zambia
05/09/2023 - 07/09/2023
Regional workshop, Lusaka
Support the implementation of national drought plans: integrating national drought plans into National Action Plans (NAPs) - Colombia
01/08/2023 - 03/08/2023
Regional workshop, Bogotá
Virtual Event
Launching event of the Drought Finance Tracker
28/07/2023
Monitoring and assessing drought finance flows - online event
28 July 2023
Time: 15.00 (GMT+2)
Success stories
FAO's Successful Regional Drought Workshops: Strengthening Preparedness Across Continents
FAO and its partners hosted a series of impactful regional workshops tackling proactive drought management. Attended by national focal points and experts, the events focused on technology integration, financial challenges, and institutional coordination. The workshops, a part of the GEF project, demonstrated remarkable achievements.
Integrated natural resources management in drought-prone and salt-affected agricultural production landscapes in Central Asia and Turkey (CACILM-2)
CACILM-2 is the 2nd phase of a GEF-funded regional project in Central Asia and Turkey that demonstrates effective agricultural technologies, measures drought impact and degradation of agricultural land per GDP and contributes to food security, welfare and agricultural productivity.
Community Contingency Funds (CCFs), an agricultural risk insurance for vulnerable households in the dry corridor of Central America
CCFs are an innovative risk protection and financial mechanism to provide a farm insurance to those who do not have access to conventional financial systems. The resources of this solidarity fund are managed by farmer’s association to provide assistance to members after unexpected events like droughts.
Unlocking the potential of agricultural innovation to improve farmers’ resilience to drought
The programme “One million cisterns for the Sahel” aims at introducing rainwater harvesting and storage systems for vulnerable communities, especially women. The objective is to enable millions of people access safe drinking water, enhance their family agricultural production, improve their food and nutrition security and to strengthen their resilience.
Collaboration
FAO has a longstanding partnership and collaboration with UNCCD, the UN agency established to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought. UNCCD established the Drought Toolbox to provide drought stakeholders with easy access to tools, case studies and other resources and support the design of National Drought Policy Plan with the aim to boost the resilience of people and ecosystems to drought.
The interactive linkage between the Drought Initiative Toolbox and the FAO Drought portal aims at reaching out wider audience with a broader and more complete set of functions and information.
Highlights
The project “Enabling Activities for Implementing UNCCD COP Drought Decisions” sets the objectives to enable the UNCCD parties towards the implementation of national drought plans according to the principles of integrated drought management. Twelve countries are receiving technical support to implement relevant decisions on drought and national drought plans for drought preparedness, regional advocacy, and capacity building in the framework of an intergovernmental working group (IWG) and Drought Initiative implementation.
See on the map the national drought plans of the twelve countries.
Partners
Related Links
- FAO Land and Water
- FAO Building Forward Better - Drought
- FAO emergencies and resilience
- Water and Climate Coalition
Contact
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