Village knowledge centers and the use of GIS-derived products in enhancing micro-level drought preparedness: A case study from South Central India

Author

Kumar, Dileep G. ; Nagarajan, Radhakrishnan ; Rao, A. V R Kesava ; Balaji, V.

Author_Institution

Int. Crop Res. for Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru

fYear

2007

fDate

15-16 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Drought affects hundreds of millions of people in the developing world and causes serious disruption of social and economic activities. Preparedness is better than relief and information is the backbone of drought preparedness. In this paper we report the results from a study in the use of GIS-derived products to assess micro-level drought vulnerability, taking a cluster of 17 villages in the South Central India as the study area. An internet-connected rural information center, linked to village knowledge centers, played a key role in testing the utility of this product, and the associated local-level predictions for seasonal rainfall.

Keywords

Internet; geographic information systems; information centres; weather forecasting; Internet-connected rural information center; South Central India; developing world; microlevel drought preparedness; microlevel drought vulnerability; seasonal rainfall predictions; village knowledge centers; Asia; Crops; Economic forecasting; Internet; Large-scale systems; Loss measurement; Seismic measurements; Spine; Testing; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 2007. ICTD 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1990-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1991-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937403

Filename

4937403