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Watershed development as a growth engine for sustainable development of rainfed areas

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Title Watershed development as a growth engine for sustainable development of rainfed areas
 
Creator Wani, S P
Rockstroma, J
 
Subject Watershed management
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Globally humankind is facing a great challenge of achieving food security for the
ever growing population and growing per capita incomes particularly in the emerging
giant economies like Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The urgent need
to decrease poverty and undernourishment while protecting the environment means
delicately balancing development and sustainability resulting in increased additional
pressure on the global food production system. In the foreseeable future agriculture
will continue to be the backbone of economies in Africa and South Asia in spite of
growing incomes and urbanization, globalization, and the declining contribution........
 
Publisher CRC Press(Taylor & Francis)
 
Date 2011
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3566/1/Chapter_2.pdf
Wani, S P and Rockstroma, J (2011) Watershed development as a growth engine for sustainable development of rainfed areas. In: Integrated Watershed Management in Rainfed Agriculture. CRC Press(Taylor & Francis), London, UK, pp. 35-52. ISBN 978-0-415-88277-4