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Author: Kurian, Mathew, Dietz, T.
Publisher: IWMI
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9290906006
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report draws on a survey and case study evidence from 28 watershed management groups in Haryana to argue that participatory watershed management projects need not necessarily safeguard the interests of poorer rural households.
Author: John Farrington
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Efforts have long been made in India to improve the management of major watersheds for ecological reasons - such as reducing the siltation of reservoirs. The management of micro-watersheds (of around 500 hectares) is a more recent focus of policy and has both ecology and livelihoods as itsobjectives. Experiments have shown that, in some areas, more than a doubling of resource productivity can be achieved by careful rehablitation. Many watersheds contain both private and common land. It is already clear from a number a efforts led by NGOs that, to be equitable and institutionally sustainable, the rehabilitation of both common and private lands needs action rooted in strong resource user-groups capable of taking decisions ina participatory way and resolving conflict. To build up groups in this way requires both time and skills, both of which have proved elusive in government projects and programmes. The key question addressed in this book is how far the approaches developed by NGOs can be adopted (or adapted) by the public sector and applied on a wide scale,for, without such approaches, neither the ecological nor the livelihood benefits of watershed rehabilitation will be achieved.
Author: Farhad Vania
Publisher: IIED
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1843695391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: R. Sakthivadivel
Publisher: IWMI
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 35
ISBN-13: 9290905824
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Social aspects / Institutions / Development projects / Watershed management
Author: Fiona Hinchcliffe
Publisher: Impacts of Participatory Water
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The studies present a complex picture of the achievements and continuing challenges faced by conservation professionals and farmers, provide evidence of the importance of local people's involvement in natural resource planning and management, and reveal how difficult it is to scale-up and participatory approaches in large sector-based programmes.
Author: Molle, François, Jayakody, Priyantha, Ariyaratne, Ranjith, Somatilake, H. S.
Publisher: IWMI
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9290906073
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report analyzes a case from southern Sri Lanka, where the Samanalawewa dam and the Kaltota Irrigation Scheme (KIS) compete for the water of the Walawe river. At the catchment level, it is shown that dam releases are well attuned to the needs of KIS and to the occurrences of natural runoff, and that little of the dam water is "lost" to the river.
Author: Anil C. Shah
Publisher: IIED
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781843690276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stuart Gillespie
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0896297586
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The global AIDS epidemic has caused over 25 million deaths since 1981, and there is no end in sight. It is a multidimensional, phased, long-wave crisis with impacts that will be felt for decades to come. Attempts to defeat the epidemic are conventionally grounded in the three core pillars of AIDS policy: prevention, treatment and care, and mitigation. But there is also an urgent need for a deeper understanding of the integral role that food and nutrition can and should play, and a corresponding urgency to use that understanding to improve responses at all levels.The 18 essays in AIDS, Poverty, and Hunger: Challenges and Responses contribute to such an understanding by examining the impacts of HIV and AIDS on labor markets and wages, household income and consumption dynamics, and the agricultural sector as a whole; by studying the ways in which households respond to prime-age illness, death, and food insecurity; and by exploring the implications of local responses for the roles that national and international actors must play in addressing the AIDS-hunger nexus.This book creates an opportunity for development professionals to build the conceptual links lacking in current multisectoral frameworks, assess impacts and costs, propose indicators and monitoring systems, and design appropriate food- and nutrition-related interventions and policies."
Author: Divya Datta and Shilpa Nischal
Publisher: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 8179932842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1997, when India celebrated 50 years of its Independence, TERI's study Growth with Resource Enhancement of Environment and Nature (GREEN) India 2047 assessed whether the country was moving on an environmentally sustainable path. The sequel to the study, Directions Innovations and Strategies for Harnessing Action (DISHA) for sustainable development, released in 2001, projected environmental and resource implications for the country by 2047 under two scenarios, that is, continuing in a business-as-usual mode and adopting a more sustainable development trajectory. The present study picks up the thread from 1997, examining environmental trends in the last decade, isolating underlying priority issues and identifying strategies that are needed to prevent or ameliorate environmental damage. The mandate of the present study, thus, is to go beyond reporting the state of India's environment. Through an evaluation of the major factors that are responsible for the present state and the characteristics of resulting impacts, the study provides an agenda for action.
