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Land Use Planning in Integrated Watershed Development Program for Improving Livelihoods

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Title Land Use Planning in Integrated Watershed Development
Program for Improving Livelihoods
 
Creator Wani, S P
Sidhu, G S
 
Subject Watershed management
 
Description Globally, rain-fed agriculture plays an important
role to achieve food security (Rockstrom et al. 2007)
as 80% of the world’s agricultural land area is rainfed
and generates 58% of the world’s staple foods
(SIWI 2001). Most food for poor communities in the
developing countries is produced in rain-fed areas
for e.g. in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) more than 95%
of the farmed land is rain-fed, whereas the corresponding
figure for Latin America is nearly 90%,
for South Asia about 60%, for East Asia 65% and
for Near East and North Africa 75%. In India, 60%
of 142 million ha (Mha) arable land is rain-fed. The
rain-fed areas are the hot spots of poverty, malnutrition,
water scarcity, severe land degradation;
and the investments in the rainfed agriculture pose
serious challenges as large numbers of households
are small land holders (Wani et al. 2009). These areas
are also prone to more adverse impacts of climate
change due to lack of technologies and necessary
resource to cope with the challenges of global
warming.
 
Date 2009
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6047/2/15-SP-Wani.pdf
Wani, S P and Sidhu, G S (2009) Land Use Planning in Integrated Watershed Development Program for Improving Livelihoods. In: Soil Science in Meeting the Challenges to Food Security and Environmental Quality, December 22-25, 2009, IARI Campus, New Delhi.