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Agricultural drought

Drought defined by an abnormal soil-moisture deficit, resulting from combined shortage of precipitation and excess evapotranspiration, that during the growing season impinges on crop production or ecosystem function.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGII Glossary: Drought (agricultural and ecological drought)

Synonyms

soil-moisture drought

Broader

Drought

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

CRK_104 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CRK_104
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CRK_104)