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Pathways to Sustainable Intensification: Participatory Designing of Adapted Farming System Innovations

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/9628/
http://www.thesolutionsjournal.org/
 
Title Pathways to Sustainable Intensification: Participatory Designing of Adapted Farming System Innovations
 
Creator Shalander, K
Whitbread, A M
Falk, T
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Most farmers in Western
Rajasthan, India face an
uncertain, impoverished future. The
region is affected by frequent droughts,
over-exploitation of groundwater,
deteriorating soil and water quality,
low productivity, weak institutions,
malnutrition, continuously decreasing
landholding size, and a burgeoning
population of 28 million. With
negative water balance for all but a
few months of the year, Rajasthani
farmers are on the cutting edge of
climate change. In this situation,
common property resources, such as
fodder, herbs, and water, ease stress
on livelihoods. By the same token,
the social and environmental cost
of the poor management of these
resources is keenly felt. That is why the
International Crops Research Institute
for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT),
as part of the Consultative Group for
International Agricultural Research
(CGIAR) Program on Dryland Systems,
has teamed up with rural dryland communities
to find integrated approaches
to resource management...
 
Publisher Solutions
 
Date 2016-09
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9628/1/Perspective_Rajasthan_solutions%20journal.pdf
Shalander, K and Whitbread, A M and Falk, T (2016) Pathways to Sustainable Intensification: Participatory Designing of Adapted Farming System Innovations. Solutions. pp. 3281-35. ISSN 2154-0896