ISLAMABAD
A new climate study covering the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and areas along its route, including southwest Pakistan, says that understanding how dry weather develops into agricultural drought could help authorities improve drought management in arid regions.
The study, published in January 2026 in the journal Atmospheric Research, is titled “Unravelling the spatiotemporal causality chain between meteorological and agricultural drought propagation in the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor.”
According to a Gwadar Pro’s report on Tuesday, itexamines how meteorological drought propagates into soil-moisture deficits and agricultural drought along the CPEC corridor, which the authors describe as stretching from Kashgar in Xinjiang to the port of Gwadar in southwestern Pakistan.
