Drought Impact Assessment
Platform
OVERVIEW
Empowering drought adaptation decision making
The Drought Impact Assessment Platform (d-iap) is an advanced global web-based tool designed to evaluate drought impacts on crop and water productivity as well as irrigation water requirements under present and future climate scenarios. Through the integration of diverse methodologies and tools, including the AquaCrop model and comprehensive global and regional databases, d-iap delivers pertinent insights into drought impacts for the main cultivable areas worldwide at a
0.1° x 0.1° (9 x 9 km approx.) resolution for both rainfed and irrigated agricultural systems. Its intuitive user interface facilitates the exploration and retrieval of various indicators tailored to specific coordinates or regions. Under rainfed conditions, these indicators encompass probabilities of yield reduction at different levels (mild –lower than 30%-, moderate –30 to 70%-, and severe –greater than 70%) due to drought, associated income losses, and the net irrigation requirements needed to mitigate the effects of drought. Under irrigated conditions, the platform displays crop-specific net irrigation requirements and associated crop water productivity. Additionally, it provides the probability of meeting crop water needs with a specific irrigation amount. d-iap performs its assessments across up to 16 different crops, including multiple growing seasons within a year. These impacts can be evaluated for present climate conditions and future climate projections (mid-century and end-century) under three Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs, as defined in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report) scenarios (SSP1-2.6, SSP3-7.0, SSP5-8.5). To streamline data management, d-iap provides different download formats for the platform outputs across various scales.
Sponsorship and partnership
and the partnership with:
The d-iap project is made possible thanks to funding from:
FAO NSL UNIT
CONTACT
FAO NSL UNIT
Yield reduction and income losses
d-iap provides data on the likelihood of yield reduction attributable to drought, along with corresponding income losses
Net Irrigation Requirements
Estimation of Net Irrigation Requirements across various probability levels, furnishing crucial insights for effective irrigation planning
16 crops and multiple seasons
Drought impacts are
evaluated for 16 different
crops, including multiple growing seasons within
a year
Irrigated and rainfed management
d-iap considers different water management practices to assess drought impacts in alignment with actual management
Global coverage at
9x9 km resolution
d-iap provides drought impacts information for the main cultivable areas worldwide at
0.1° x 0.1° resolution
(9 x 9 km approx.)
Present and future climate scenarios
Evaluate drought impacts under current and future climate conditions using outputs from five global climate models and three SSPs scenarios (AR6)
Data
accesibility
d-iap offers different
download formats
for the platform outputs
at various scales
Aquacrop
at the core
The FAO water productivity model, AquaCrop, is at the core of the d-iap, providing robustness and accuracy to
the outputs of the platform
Features
