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Drought is one of the disasters that most widely affect and damage agricultural production in the world. In this study, the maize yield loss risk of drought at global is assessed and mapped at the 0.5°×0.5° grid unit, comparable-geographic unit and country and region unit based on the GEPIC-V-R model. The result indicates that the top 10% countries with the highest expected annual maize yield loss risk are USA, China, Russia, Brazil, Spain, Afghanistan, Kenya, Argentina, Mexico, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Iraq, South Africa, and Australia.
Mapping Editors: Jing’ai Wang (Key Laboratory of Regional Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China), Chunqin Zhang (School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China), Yin Zhou (Key Laboratory of Regional Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China) and Fang Chen (School of Geography, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China).
Language Editor: Wei Xu (Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disaster, Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China).
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Yin, Y., Zhang, X., Yu, H., Lin, D., Wu, Y., Wang, J. (2015). Mapping Drought Risk (Maize) of the World. In: Shi, P., Kasperson, R. (eds) World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk. IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45430-5_11
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