Agricultural land conversion: Reviewing drought impacts and coping strategies

[en] This paper aims to review the impacts of drought on agricultural land conversion (ALC) on the one hand and the impacts of ALC on intensifying drought on the other. The paper further investigates coping strategies at three levels; i.e., micro (local), meso (national), and macro (international), in order to mitigate drought impacts that are classified as economic, social, and environmental. This paper shows that ALC, drought and coping strategies are in a reciprocal relationship and can have either a positive or negative influence on each other. The paper concludes that the complex and multidimensional nature of drought requires the development of an integrated approach that focuses on the governments’ collaboration with different stakeholders. Such an integrated approach can improve drought risk management implementations, decrease vulnerability and construct resilience and coping capacity at all levels in order to deal with droughts.

Disciplines :

Agriculture & agronomy

Author, co-author :

Azadi, Hossein

Keramati, Parisa

Taheri, Fatemeh

Rafiaani, Parisa ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Agronomie, Bio-ingénierie et Chimie (AgroBioChem) > Modélisation et développement

Teklemariam, Dereje

Gebrehiwot, Kindeya

Hosseininia, Gholamhossein

Van Passel, Steven

Lebailly, Philippe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Agronomie, Bio-ingénierie et Chimie (AgroBioChem) > Modélisation et développement

Language :

English

Title :

Agricultural land conversion: Reviewing drought impacts and coping strategies

Publication date :

2018

Journal title :

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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2212-4209

Publisher :

Elsevier, United Kingdom

Volume :

Issue :

October 2018

Pages :

184-195

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