Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Year of publication: 2012
Available languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Details: Assessment of agricultural stress, drought intensity, and vegetation health
Format of assessment: Web tool
Estimated costs for conducting: Open source
Estimated duration of assessment: No information
To be carried out by whom: Consultants (climate experts)
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: Global, continental, national
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Decision makers at all levels
Output: Others (see details)
Details: Report and maps indicating agricultural stress
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Agriculture
Method used: Index development
Description of methodology: The indices are based on remote sensing data of vegetation and land surface temperature combined with information on agricultural cropping cycles derived from historical data and a global crop mask
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: Exposure
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Drought
Details: Drought
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Satellite based data on vegetation and precipitation data
Temporal scale: Current
Participatory elements: No
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: No
Adressing uncertainty: No information
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks
Details: Identification of stress to agriculture
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): No information
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: Could be used for the development of a remote sensing-based index for crop insurance
Applied by whom: FAO
Open access: Yes