Agriculture Drought Preparedness Policy of Foreign Typical Arid Zone and Its Revelation to China

With the expansion of the global warming and the development of human social and economic, as well as population growth, drought has become a worldwide problem, which affects agriculture most largest and directly. In the process of long-term response to agricultural drought, many countries gradually formed its own unique drought policy. Based on summing up the experience of dealing with drought disaster of typical foreign arid countries, such as the United States, Australia, Israel and Africa, this paper draws inspiration from the following aspects:transforming drought management philosophy, perfecting Drought legal system; establishing a unified and coordinated Drought administrative agencies; strengthening drought monitoring and forecasting, improving early warning capacities; reforming irrigation technology, developing high-tech water-saving irrigation agriculture; increasing agricultural disaster subsidies, establishing agricultural insurance system; strengthening water crisis awareness education, establishing the concept of water conservation, etc., in order to offer decision reference for further improve the ability of drought control.