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Collective Action for Integrated Watershed Management in Semi-Arid India: Strategic Policy and Institutional Options .Strategic Assessments and Development Pathways for Agriculture in the Semi-Arid Tropics

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Title Collective Action for Integrated Watershed Management in Semi-Arid India: Strategic Policy and Institutional Options .Strategic Assessments and Development Pathways for Agriculture in the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Creator Reddy, V R
Shiferaw, B
Bantilan, M C S
Wani, S P
Sreedevi, T K
 
Subject Watershed management
 
Description Degradation of agroecosystems and declining
sustainability are major concerns for agricultural
development in many poor regions of the world
where livelihoods depend on exploitation of natural
resources. This is especially significant in the semi-
arid areas, where water scarcity, frequent drought,
soil degradation and other constraints lower
agricultural productivity and the resilience of the
system. Community-based integrated watershed
management (IWM) is therefore being recognized
as a suitable strategy for improving productivity and
sustainable intensication of agriculture in drought-
prone regions. This concept ties together the
biophysical notion of a watershed as a hydrological
unit with the social aspect of community and its
institutions for sustainable management of land,
water and other resources.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2007
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3895/1/Policybrief11.pdf
Reddy, V R and Shiferaw, B and Bantilan, M C S and Wani, S P and Sreedevi, T K (2007) Collective Action for Integrated Watershed Management in Semi-Arid India: Strategic Policy and Institutional Options .Strategic Assessments and Development Pathways for Agriculture in the Semi-Arid Tropics. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.