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Policies and institutions for increasing benefits of integrated watershed management programs

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Title Policies and institutions for increasing benefits of integrated watershed management programs
 
Creator Raju, K V
Anantha, K H
Wani, S P
 
Subject Watershed management
 
Description One of the most challenging policy issues for a long time has been conservation and
management of land and water resources for sustainable agriculture and poverty reduction,
specifically in rainfed areas. Rainfed agriculture contributes 60% of world’s staple
food and is being practiced on 80% of the world’s agricultural area (FAOSTAT 2005).
Water is a limiting factor in achieving food production (crop growth) in semi-arid
and dry subhumid zones (SEI 2005). Nearly two-thirds of India’s agriculture is based
on rainfed areas and contributes about 9% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)1. As
the source of growth in irrigated areas declines, rainfed agriculture must increase to
fill the gap...........
 
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/3568/1/Chapter_5.pdf
Raju, K V and Anantha, K H and Wani, S P (2011) Policies and institutions for increasing benefits of integrated watershed management programs. In: Integrated Watershed Management in Rainfed Agriculture. CRC Press(Taylor & Francis), London, UK, pp. 129-158. ISBN 978-0-415-88277-4