Oscar Rojas and Marco Minelli from FAO presented a fascinating methodology in baking an ´anticipatory action´ cake by using ingredients from seasonal vegetation monitoring to the El Nino forecast. This enables countries to anticipate upcoming rainfall reduction and associated impacts on crop yields, and to define the most suitable crop season. He presented the Agricultural Stress Index System (ASIS), a geoinformation system providing a forecast on agricultural drought allowing countries to anticipate drought and to make timely decisions.