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Community watersheds for improved livelihoods through consortium approach in drought prone rainfed areas

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Title Community watersheds for improved livelihoods through consortium approach in drought prone rainfed areas
 
Creator Wani, S P
Sreedevi, T K
Reddy, T S V
Venkateshvarlu, B
Prasad, C S
 
Subject Watershed management
 
Description Rainfed agriculture is important globally (80%)) with varying regional
importance (95% in sub-saharan Africa and 60% of the farmed land in South Asia) and is
also the hotspot of poverty, hunger, and water stress. Occurrence of droughts is a common
feature and the frequency of droughts is expected to increase due to prevailing climate
change. Watershed development is adopted as a drought proofing strategy for improving
livelihoods. Watershed development approach has evolved from a compartmental approach
of conserving soil and water to a holistic and participatory livelihoods approach. The new
approach calls for inputs from various institutions and actors for greater impact. ICRISATled
Consortium has developed an innovative community watershed management model
involving participatory research and development. This approach developed in Adarsha
Watershed, Kothapally in India and further scaled out in 368 watersheds in India, China,
Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam has showed multiple impacts by increasing crop
productivity by 2 to 4 folds, doubling the family incomes, enhancing biodiversity, enhancing
community resilience to cope with changes including due to climate change, reducing run-off
and soil losses, building institutions and developing local capacity. ICRISAT’s experiences
and learnings about community scale watershed management through Consortium are
discussed.
 
Date 2008
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3632/1/JournalOfHydrologicalResearchAndReview_55-77_2008.pdf
Wani, S P and Sreedevi, T K and Reddy, T S V and Venkateshvarlu, B and Prasad, C S (2008) Community watersheds for improved livelihoods through consortium approach in drought prone rainfed areas. Journal of Hydrological Research and Development, 23. pp. 55-77.