Strengthening Thailand's Agricultural drought Resilience

加强泰国农业抗旱能力

• 批准号: NE/S003223/1
• 负责人: Jamie Hannaford
• 金额: $ 59.85万
• 依托单位: NERC CEH (Up to 30.11.2019)
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FS003223%2F1
• 关键词: Strengthening; Thailand; Agricultural; drought; Resilience

Droughts impact lives and livelihoods around the world, particularly in those regions with limited resilience to extreme events. In South-East Asia (SEA), pressures from climate and land use change, increasing populations and development impact water resources, even in Thailand which is considered to be one of the wealthier countries in the region. A number of recent drought events in Thailand have impacted food supplies, energy production and the wider economy, underlining the vulnerability of the country. The agricultural sector is particularly affected by water shortages and a better understanding of drought in Thailand would underpin mitigation actions that improve resilience and livelihoods.Drought monitoring can improve preparedness and management, and whilst drought information provided through existing operational services provides a useful tool for water managers, there is limited understanding of how these indices relate to impacts. This appreciation of the links between drought indicators and impacts is limited by the availability of both consistent hydrometeorological datasets and impacts data collected from agricultural stakeholders. An improved understanding of this indicator-impact link would enhance the management and communication of drought, increase resilience and reduce vulnerability.The STAR project will address these research needs through the following objectives: 1) engage stakeholders in informing and co-designing drought monitoring practices, ensuring collaboration during and post project; 2) develop new drought monitoring and characterisation indicators for Thailand based on stakeholders' needs; 3) improve understanding of drought impacts on agriculture and assess adaptive capacity in a case study catchment; 4) increase drought resilience and capacity through better communication of drought risks and associated impacts.STAR aims to enhance resilience to drought for all of Thailand although some activities will take place within a catchment-based context. The Ping catchment is a major tributary of the strategically important Chao Phraya river, identified for its importance within the agricultural sector and vulnerability to drought. Approaches are likely to be scalable within Thailand and the SEA region more generally. The project is structured in four Work packages (WPs), with stakeholder engagement embedded in each of them: WP1 will identify those principally responsible for drought management and communication. The PingSTAR Network, a collaboration of diverse stakeholders within the Ping catchment, will be initiated and run through the duration of the project and beyond. WP2 will assess the drought hazard in Thailand, utilising and co-developing a range of hydrometeorological indicator datasets for drought identification and characterisation, a major legacy of STAR that will be disseminated as per the Pwthways to Impact. WP3 will work within the Ping catchment to better understand and quantify the agricultural and socioeconomic impacts of drought. Through a combination of social network analysis, collating existing sources and undertaking interviews in the field with farmers, a rich record of impacts will be databased and analysed. Finally, WP4 will bridge the national and catchment scales, establishing the relationship between drought indicators and impacts through a case study in the Ping catchment before assessing the scalability of such approaches more widely in Thailand and South-East Asia. Visualisation tools will be developed to allow stakeholders to better understand the link between drought indicators and impacts, and a capacity-building, knowledge-sharing workshop with national and regional stakeholders will consolidate the research outcomes of the STAR project and consider how the developed approaches could be applied more widely for enhanced drought resilience.

干旱会影响世界各地的生活和生计，尤其是在那些对极端事件韧性有限的地区。在东南亚（海洋）中，气候和土地使用变化的压力，人口增加和发展影响水资源，即使在泰国，这也被认为是该地区较富裕的国家之一。泰国最近发生的许多干旱事件影响了粮食供应，能源生产和更广泛的经济性，强调了该国的脆弱性。农业部门尤其受水资源短缺的影响，对泰国的干旱有更好的理解将是缓解措施的措施，从而改善弹性和生计。干旱的监测可以改善准备和管理，而通过现有的运营服务提供的干旱信息为水管理者提供了一种有用的工具，为水管理者提供了对这些索引的影响，这些索引与影响相关的方式有限。对干旱指标和影响之间联系的这种欣赏受到一致的水信数据集的可用性的限制，并影响从农业利益相关者收集的数据。对这种指标的联系有了深入的了解，将增强干旱的管理和交流，提高韧性并减少脆弱性。该星项目将通过以下目标来满足这些研究需求：1）让利益相关者参考和共同设计干旱监测实践，以确保在项目期间和职业项目中的协作； 2）根据利益相关者的需求为泰国开发新的干旱监测和表征指标； 3）提高对干旱对农业的影响并评估案例研究集水区的适应能力的理解； 4）通过更好地沟通干旱风险和相关影响来提高干旱的韧性和能力。Star旨在增强对泰国所有泰国干旱的韧性，尽管某些活动将在基于流域的环境中进行。 Ping集水区是战略上重要的Chao Phraya河的主要支流，以其在农业部门的重要性和干旱的脆弱性而被确定。在泰国和海洋地区，方法可能可扩展。该项目以四个工作包（WPS）的形式结构，其中嵌入了利益相关者的互动：WP1将确定那些主要负责干旱管理和交流的人。 Pingstar网络是PING集水区中各种利益相关者的合作，将在项目及其他过程中启动并运行。 WP2将评估泰国的干旱危害，并利用并共同开发一系列水文学指标数据集，以识别干旱和表征，这是恒星的主要遗产，该恒星的主要遗产将按照影响的pwthways散布。 WP3将在PING集水区内工作，以更好地理解和量化干旱的农业和社会经济影响。通过社交网络分析的结合，整理现有资源并在与农民的领域进行访谈，将进行数据库和分析。最后，WP4将桥接国家和集水区量表，在Ping集水区中的案例研究中建立干旱指标与影响之间的关系，然后在泰国和东南亚更广泛地评估此类方法的可伸缩性。将开发可视化工具，以使利益相关者能够更好地了解干旱指标与影响之间的联系，以及与国家和地区利益相关者与国家和地区利益相关者进行能力建设，知识共享研讨会将巩固Star Project的研究成果，并考虑如何更广泛地应用开发的方法以获得增强的Dright Reclielience。

项目成果

What is the evidence linking financial assistance for drought-affected agriculture and resilience in tropical Asia? A systematic review

有哪些证据可以将针对受干旱影响的农业提供的财政援助与热带亚洲的恢复力联系起来？

• DOI: 10.1007/s10113-021-01867-y
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Regional Environmental Change
• 影响因子: 4.2
• 作者: Goodwin D

Indicator-to-impact links to help improve agricultural drought preparedness in Thailand

指标与影响的联系有助于改善泰国的农业干旱准备

• DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2023-308
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Tanguy M

The contribution of a catchment-scale advice network to successful agricultural drought adaptation in Northern Thailand

• DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2021.0293
• 发表时间: 2022-12-12
• 期刊: PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Goodwin, Daniel;Holman, Ian;Rey, Dolores
• 通讯作者: Rey, Dolores

Supplementary material - The contribution of a catchment-scale advice network to successful agricultural drought adaptation in Northern Thailand.

补充材料 - 流域规模的咨询网络对泰国北部农业干旱适应的成功贡献。

• DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21269846
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Goodwin D