**3.2 Meteorological and agricultural drought**

From the reviewed papers, 37.5% was covered meteorological drought analysis and monitoring studies, and agricultural drought studies were covered 12.5% (**Table 4**). Ethiopia is highly dependent on rainfed agriculture; so, meteorological and

*Review of Hydrological Drought Analysis Status in Ethiopia DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.102763*

agricultural drought analysis, monitoring, and early warning system development are crucial. But still, there is no well-adopted drought analysis technique for a nationwide or a regional level. As a result, the development of drought early warning system has lacked. At the same time, hydrological drought analysis and monitoring is also key point for river basin development and water resource management. But due to its large input data requirement, hydrological drought study is not further investigated.
