This paper describes the basic connotation of risk perception, the influence factors of the risk perception for agricultural drought and the mainstream assess- ment model. Additionally, it summarizes the latest developments of research meth- ods for risk perception for the agricultural drought, and the research status of the risk perception for agricultural drought, and put forward the trends of risk perception for the agricultural drought. Finally, it proposes the research areas of the risk per- ception for agricultural drought should be improved in future.
