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A new paradigm in watershed management: A must for development of rainfed areas for inclusive growth

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Title A new paradigm in watershed management: A must for development of rainfed areas for inclusive growth
 
Creator Wani, S P
Joshi, P K
Ramakrishna, Y S
Sreedevi, T K
Singh, P
Pathak, P
 
Subject Watershed management
 
Description Two third of agriculture in India is rain-fed and is also Ihe hot spot of poverty as is the case
in Asia where large proportion of 852 million poor in the world reside. Rainfed areas in developing countries and panicularly so in India are at cross roads as looming water
scarcity for achieving food security and reducing poverty tainled agriculture has come in
the central stage. Large potential of rain-fed agriculture is untapped largely due 10 lack'of
enabling policy support and investments. in drought-prone rainfed areas watershed
management has shown the potential of douhlillg the agricultural productivity and increasing
the rural family through increased water availability and diversifying the cropping and
farming systems resulting in diversified sources of income. impact of watershed programs
can be substantially enlumced by developing new approaches and enabling policies, however,
additional investments are mustfor meeting the millennium development goal New paradigm
. based Oil the learnings over last thirty years for people-centric holistic watershed management
in.volving convergence; collective action consortium. approach, capacity development to address equity efficiency, environment, and economic concerns is urgently needed. Through
new paradigm watershed management can be used as an entry point activity for improving livelihoods of rural poor ill rainfed areas to enable India to achieve inclusive and sustainable development for meeting the MDGs as well as achieving the food, water: and energy security.
Concened efforts by all the stakeholders and actors will make India a global leader in the
area of inclusive and sustainable development in drought-prone challenging rainfed areas
to develop a watershed management as business model through public private partnerships
hamessing the benefits of value chain and linking farmers to the market.
 
Publisher Soil Conservation Society of India
 
Contributor Swarup, A
Bhan, Suraj
Bali, J S
 
Date 2008
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3654/1/Conservation_Farming_SCCI_A_New_Paradigm_SPW_2008.pdf
Wani, S P and Joshi, P K and Ramakrishna, Y S and Sreedevi, T K and Singh, P and Pathak, P (2008) A new paradigm in watershed management: A must for development of rainfed areas for inclusive growth. In: Conservation farming: Enhancing productivity and profitability of rainfed areas. Soil Conservation Society of India, New Delhi, India, pp. 163-178.