Overall Red alert Drought for India and Sri Lanka-2019
in India, Sri Lanka

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 8 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of severe to extreme events.

GDACS ID DR 1012873
Name: India and Sri Lanka-2019
Countries: India, Sri Lanka
Start Date: End of Dec 2018
Duration: 249 days
Impact: Severe impact for agricultural drought in 85408 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Sri Lanka: Government of Sri Lanka, KOICA and WFP renew partnership to.. 8/16/2019 2:29:00 PM.

Monaragala – The Government of Sri Lanka, together with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), today launched a three-year, LKR 106 billion (US$ 6 million) project to build resilien
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Sri Lanka: Support for rural areas to withstand climate change 8/13/2019 8:13:00 AM.

The Sri Lankan government, together with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), yesterday launched a three-year project to build resilience of communities against the impact of
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Support for rural areas to withstand climate change 8/12/2019 2:16:00 AM.

The project being launched by the representatives from the United Nations World Food Programme and the Korea International Cooperation Agency, yesterday. The Sri Lankan government, together with the United Nations World Food Programme (W
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US$ 6 Mn project launched to help Lankan communities face natural disa.. 8/11/2019 11:16:00 PM.

August 11, 2019, 10:02 pm The agreement to launch three-year project to build resilience of communities against the impact of natural disasters being signed by the representatives from the United Nations World Food Programme and the Korea I
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28/Jun/2019 11:27 UTC

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),