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Author: Kurian, Mathew, Dietz, T.
Publisher: IWMI
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 9290906006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Molle, François, Jayakody, Priyantha, Ariyaratne, Ranjith, Somatilake, H. S.
Publisher: IWMI
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9290906073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: J. M. Kerr
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 0896291294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Green Revolution that transformed irrigated agriculture elsewhere in India had little effect in the rainfed, semi-arid regions. Agricultural productivity remained low, natural resources were degrading, and the people were poor. In the 1980s and 1990s, planners turned to watershed management to develop rainfed agriculture while conserving natural resources. By the late 1990s, India was spending US$500 million a year on watershed development projects. Strategies ranged from the purely technical to those that emphasized social organization. Little systematic analysis exists, however, on the success of the different approaches. This study, based on a survey of 86 villages in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra states, attempts to fill that information gap by evaluating the projects' relative success in raising agricultural productivity, improving natural resource management, and reducing poverty. In looking at the question of what approaches enable a project to succeed, it uses both quantitative and qualitative analysis to compare project and nonproject villages before and after the projects were implemented. The authors find that projects involving the villagers in planning and decisionmaking performed better than their technocratic, top-down counterparts, but projects that combined participation with sound technical input performed best of all. All projects faced difficulties in ensuring that poor people shared the benefits of watershed development.
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 EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Minoru Yoneda
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-05-07
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9811080909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication is a practical guidebook on environmental risk assessment, especially for watershed-scale management. It highlights case studies of watershed environmental risk in Malaysia, including the potential health risks as well as screening methods and management in practice. In order to apply environmental risk assessment methods for the management of toxic chemicals, it is necessary to consider the geological and climate features of each country as well as their cultural characteristics. Focusing on Malaysia as a representative country, the book also discusses studies in other Asian countries. The insights provided can be applied to advanced and developing countries alike. A suitable textbook for graduate students, it is also a valuable reference source for researchers, practitioners and policymakers.
Author: Patrizio Warren
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vasudha Chhotray
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0857288415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book assesses the validity of ‘anti-politics’ critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. It examines the new context provided by decentralization of state functioning where keeping politics out of development (development as the anti-politics machine) can no longer be taken for granted. The case of a highly technocratic state watershed development programme that also seeks to be participatory is used to illustrate the tensions between prescriptive development policy and a growing political democracy.
Author: Khangembam Menjor Singh
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9788183242097
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudy of the working and achievements of the participatory institutions/organizations in Manipur, India.
Author: Aslam, M., Prathapar, S. A.
Publisher: IWMI
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 9290906162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThisThis report discusses the nature and causes of secondary salinization, reviews strategies developed and tested within IBIS to mitigate salinization, and identifies areas requiring further investigation.
