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Understanding the drought impact of El Niño on the global agricultural areas : an assessment using FAO's Agricultural Stress Index (ASI)

Title
Understanding the drought impact of El Niño on the global agricultural areas : an assessment using FAO's Agricultural Stress Index (ASI) / Oscar Rojas, Yanyun Li, Renato Cumani.
Author
Rojas, Oscar E.
Publication
  • Rome : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2014.
  • ©2014

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Additional Authors
  • Li, Yanyun
  • Cumani, Renato
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, issuing body.
Description
v, 42 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 30 cm.
Summary
"During El Niño episodes the normal patterns of tropical precipitation and atmospheric circulation become disrupted triggering extreme climate events around the globe: droughts, floods and affecting the intensity and frequency of hurricanes. Disasters create poverty traps that increase the prevalence of food insecurity and malnutrition. Agriculture is one of the main sectors of the economy that could be severely affected by El Niño event. FAO monitors the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, among other weather related hazards, with a special focus on the potential impacts on the agricultural sector. The objective of this study is to enhance our understanding the El Niño phenomenon using FAO's Agricultural Stress Index System (ASIS). This study is carried out under the auspices of the new FAO Strategic Framework, for the Strategic Objective 5 "Increase the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises." The study outcomes are expected to enhance further discussions on our understanding of the El Niño Phenomenon and add to the growing literature. This would in turn improve effective early warning capabilities of FAO and partners to issue and trigger timely disaster risk reduction measures."--Page 4 of cover.
Series Statement
Environment and natural resources management series ; 22, [i.e., 23]
Uniform Title
Environment and natural resources management series ; no. 23.
Subject
  • Crops > Drought tolerance
  • Crops and climate
  • Droughts
  • Southern oscillation > Environmental aspects
  • Meteorology, Agricultural
  • Cultures > Résistance à la sécheresse
  • Cultures et climat
  • Sécheresses
  • Oscillation australe > Aspect de l'environnement
  • Agrométéorologie
  • drought
  • El Niño Current > Environmental aspects
  • El Niño, Courant > Aspect de l'environnement
  • Pacific Ocean > El Niño Current
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 41-42).
Contents
Introduction -- What we know and would like to know about El Niño -- Data used on this study -- The Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) -- Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) -- Agriculture Stress Index (ASI) -- Auxiliary data -- The influence of El Niño on the global agricultural areas -- El Niño 1986-1988 -- El Niño 1991/1992 -- El Niño 1994/1995 -- El Niño 1997/1998 -- El Niño 2002/2003 -- El Niño 2004/2005 -- El Niño 2006/2007 -- El Niño 2009/2010 -- Characteristics of each El Niño event -- Relationship between ASI and El Niño. Statistical analysis ; Agricultural drought frequency -- Developments 2014 -- Conclusions.
ISBN
  • 9251086710
  • 9789251086711
OCLC
  • ocn905736324
  • 905736324
  • SCSB-1820136
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library