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Socioeconomic profiles, production and resource use patterns in selected semi-arid Indian watershed villages

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Global Theme on Agroecosystems Report no. 34
 
Title Socioeconomic profiles, production and resource use patterns in selected semi-arid Indian watershed villages
 
Creator Bendapudi, R
Shiferaw, B
Wani, S P
Rao, G D N
Sreedevi, T K
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description The collaborative watershed research and development project between ICRISAT and the Andhra Pradesh Rural Livelihoods Programme (APRLP) was initiated with an overall objective of alleviating poverty through watershed-based interventions that enhance agricultural productivity and the sustainability of rural livelihoods. The initial phase of the project focused on participatory technology evaluation in selected watersheds for development of best practices and upscalable implementation models. Characterization of the biophysical and socioeconomic systems is an important aspect of this work. A detailed baseline socioeconomic farm household survey was conducted in 2003 in selected watershed villages of Mahabubnagar, Nalgonda and Kurnool districts. This report analyzes the socioeconomic conditions and resource endowment patterns of the watershed farmers. The report provides a snapshot of the structure of production in the villages, constraints and potential for increased productivity, social and political networks, and the distribution of assets across social groups. The net household incomes from diverse sources including crop, livestock and off-farm and their contribution to total household income in the selected villages are presented. The report also analyzes the income inequalities and the effect of different income sources on household income inequalities in the watershed villages using inequality decomposition techniques.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2007
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/2400/1/GTAgroEcosystem_RP_34.pdf
Bendapudi, R and Shiferaw, B and Wani, S P and Rao, G D N and Sreedevi, T K (2007) Socioeconomic profiles, production and resource use patterns in selected semi-arid Indian watershed villages. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.