Introduction
In February 2009, the WMO Commission for Agricultural Meteorology held an International Workshop on Drought and Extreme Temperatures in Beijing, China to review the increasing frequency and severity of droughts and extreme temperature events around the world. The workshop adopted several recommendations to cope with increasing droughts and extreme temperatures on agriculture, rangelands and forestry. One of the main recommendations was for WMO to make appropriate arrangements to identify the methods and marshal resources for the development of standards for agricultural drought indices in a timely manner.
It is with this background that WMO, along with the US National Drought Mitigation Centre (NDMC) and the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln proposes to organize an Inter-Regional Workshop on Indices and Early Warning Systems for Drought at the University of Nebraska from 8 to 11 December 2009. This workshop is co-sponsored by NOAA/National Integrated Drought Information System, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the UNCCD Secretariat.
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