“…Most of the recent contributions have focused on exposing the social processes that intersect with the transformation of a drought from a meteorological event, into soil moisture drought (Cook et al, 2009 ; Deo et al, 2009 ; Kandakji et al, 2021 ; Satgé et al, 2017 ; Taufik et al, 2020 ; Yang et al, 2017 ; Yu et al, 2018 ), hydrological drought (Al‐Faraj & Tigkas, 2016 ; Jehanzaib, Shah, Kwon, & Kim, 2020 ; Jehanzaib, Shah, Yoo, & Kim, 2020 ; Liu et al, 2016 ; Somorowska & Łaszewski, 2017 ; Wada et al, 2013 ; Wan et al, 2017 ; Wanders & Wada, 2015 ; Wang, Duan, et al, 2020 ; Wang, Jiang, et al, 2020 ; Yang et al, 2020 ; Yuan et al, 2017 ), and ultimately, socioeconomic drought (Edalat & Stephen, 2019 ; Guo, Huang, Huang, Wang, Fang, et al, 2019 ; Guo, Huang, Huang, Wang, Wang, & Fang, 2019 ; Heidari et al, 2020 ; Huang et al, 2016 ; Liu, Shi, & Sivakumar, 2020 ; Liu, Zhang, et al, 2020 ; Mehran et al, 2015 ; Shi et al, 2018 ; Zhao et al, 2019 ). Across these studies, the social processes that engender or exacerbate drought propagation are usually proxied by the expansion of agriculture activities, population growth, urbanization, and industrialization, with agriculture seen as the most significant social driver across the various phases of drought propagation.…”