Agroclimatic Assessment Methods for Drought/Food Shortages in South and Southeast Asia: Proposed Early Warning Program

摘要

A.I.D.'s Early Warning Program (EWP) was developed to provide the Agency with advance knowledge of the potential for abnormal food shortages due to drought in 13 countries of South and Southeast Asia, an area historically vulnerable to climatic variations. The results of that project are presented in this report. Discussion is given in turn to the data bases and methodology used in developing the EWP; background information on the region's climate and agriculture; and the results of climate/crop yield modeling for individual countries in the region.