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Improved Livelihoods and Water Productivity through Integrated Watershed Management – A Case Study from China

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Resilient Dryland Systems Report No. 61
 
Title Improved Livelihoods and Water Productivity through Integrated Watershed Management – A Case Study from China
 
Creator Wani, S P
Sreedevi, T K
Sudi, R
Reddy, V
Dixin, Y
Li, Z
 
Subject Watershed management
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description ICRISAT in partnership with Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GAAS), and Yunnan
Academy of Agricultural Sciences (YAAS) implemented two benchmark watersheds namely
Lucheba Watershed at Guizhou and Xiaoxincun watershed in Yunnan provinces for the ADBICRISAT
project on “Improving Management of Natural Resources with Sustainable Rainfed
Agriculture” during 2003-2006. Both the watersheds in China had vast untapped potential for
enhancing agricultural productivity, however due to low adoption of improved management
practices and lack of knowledge to the farmers, the yields till 2002 were low and natural
resources like soil and water were prone to severe degradation. Through participatory
management, the consortium embarked on implementing integrated watershed management
program (IWMP) through improved rainwater management and harvesting, improved soil,
crop and pest management options as well as income-generating microenterprises for the
community members. The Lucheba benchmark watershed with 1284 mm amount of rainfall
annually undertook two drinking water schemes for the villagers as an entry point activity
by bringing spring water from hills by pipe to the village. Construction of 151 rainwater
harvesting structures cum irrigation water storage tanks, plantation of 133,600 trees on
100 ha wasteland, construction of approach road and crop diversification with high-value
vegetable crops in the watershed were undertaken by the community through IWMP. As a
result, the family income in Lucheba watershed increased to US$ 2582 in 2007 against the
baseline of US$ 973 per annum in 2002. In both the watersheds, empowerment of women
was evident with improved livelihoods and incomes which they could spend. The IWMP
interventions resulted in enhancing rainwater use efficiency along with the net incomes in
Xiaoxincun watershed also. The vegetable growers association and the farmers groups in both
the watersheds effectively implemented the watershed activities and successfully protected
the natural resources by reducing the erosion using the biogas production from the pig
excreta, avoiding cutting the trees for cooking, controlling soil erosion, enhancing water use
efficiency and diversifying the crops and livelihood options.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2013
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7234/1/ICRISAT-RDS_RP_61_IMproved_2013.pdf
Wani, S P and Sreedevi, T K and Sudi, R and Reddy, V and Dixin, Y and Li, Z (2013) Improved Livelihoods and Water Productivity through Integrated Watershed Management – A Case Study from China. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.