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Harnessing Gender Power and Collective Action Through Integrated Watershed Management for Sustainable Development and minimizing land Degradation

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Title Harnessing Gender Power and Collective Action Through Integrated Watershed Management for Sustainable Development and minimizing land Degradation
 
Creator Wani, S P
Sreedevi, T K
 
Subject Watershed management
Land degradation
 
Description Asia emerges as the hot spot for poverty, malnutrition and also for severe land
degradation in the world. In India, the situatioll is similar as out of 852 million poor 221
million are in India and 108.6 Mha are degraded. There is an urgent need to break the
unholy nexus between drought, land degradation and poverty using community
watersheds to manage the natural resources such as water and land sustainably for
improving livelihoods. Watershed approach is adopted by .Government of India as a
growth engine for development of rainfed areas. Although these programmes are silently
revolutionalizing the drylands all is not well. There is need to address the issues of
gender, equity to enhance participation and associated impact and sustainability of these
programmes. Three selected watershed case studies in India were analyzed to study the
impacts, the approaches adopted and most importantly gender analysis for identifying the
strategies to harness the gender power for enhancing the collective action.
 
Date 2006
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3800/1/Harnessing_Gender_PowerWani_CP.pdf
Wani, S P and Sreedevi, T K (2006) Harnessing Gender Power and Collective Action Through Integrated Watershed Management for Sustainable Development and minimizing land Degradation. In: Regional Workshop on deserts and Desertification, 29-30 Dec 2006, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.