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The Making of New Powerguda: Community Empowerment and New Technologies Transform a Problem Village in Andhra Pradesh.Global Theme on Agroecosystems Report no. 11

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Title The Making of New Powerguda: Community Empowerment and New Technologies Transform a Problem Village in Andhra Pradesh.Global Theme on Agroecosystems Report no. 11
 
Creator D’Silva, E
Wani, S P
Nagnath, B
 
Subject Watershed management
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Public participation in government programs and empowerment of women has been the corner stone of
state policy in Andhra Pradesh, India. The creation of half a million hamlet-level thrift groups headed by
women, known popularly as self-help groups (SHGs), has empowered local communities and served as an
important social instrument in the fight against poverty. Public investment in watershed management and
new agricultural technologies are helping to transform the livelihoods of poor farmers, and in particular
indigenous communities. This case study documents the transformation of Powerguda, a village of 32 families
in Adilabad district, Andhra Pradesh. As a result of watershed management, new agricultural technologies
and community empowerment, average household income increased by 77% over three years. The report
identifies the key drivers of economic, social and institutional growth in the village, which offer possibilities
for replication in other parts of the semi-arid tropics where 350 million people live in poverty. The growth
drivers include community empowerment, local government support and financial linkages to leverage
community savings into productive public investment
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2004
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3682/1/435-2004.pdf
D’Silva, E and Wani, S P and Nagnath, B (2004) The Making of New Powerguda: Community Empowerment and New Technologies Transform a Problem Village in Andhra Pradesh.Global Theme on Agroecosystems Report no. 11. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.