Malawi economic monitor, February 2024
Watersheds play a crucial role in sustaining the ecosystem, biodiversity, wildlife, agriculture, and human population by serving as the natural resource base for all forms of life. These natural boundaries
Watershed Development
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Climate change and vulnerability mapping in watersheds in middle and high mountains of Nepal
The main objective of this study was to identify and prioritize subbasins/watersheds in the Middle and High Mountains of Nepal that are significantly vulnerable to Climate Change (CC). The approach of
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The commons, communities and climate change
Rural common property resources represent the historically evolved institutional arrangements made by communities in dry regions (in the present case) to guard against the vulnerabilities and risks created
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World Bank to fund new farm project in Rajasthan
The World Bank has approved a funding of $109 million (Rs.545 crore) for a new agricultural competitiveness project in Rajasthan set to improve farm productivity through sustainable and efficient use of water resources. The project, for which Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot made an announcement in the previous year's Budget, was sanctioned at a World Bank board meeting in Washington on Tuesday.
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Negotiating trade-offs - Choices about ecosystem services for poverty alleviation
Exploring the prospects of the ecosystem services approach for natural resource management and poverty alleviation in India, this paper points out that it is vital to have an understanding of the political
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Releasing the pressure: water resource efficiencies and gains for ecosystem services
This report discusses the need to balance short-term water productivity gains, particularly in agriculture, with water flows’ long-term role in maintaining sustainable landscape ecosystem services and supporting human well-being.
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Temporal variation of water yield from a treated hilly watershed in lower Himalayas
The Shivalik range of Himalayas, represent the most fragile ecosystem in India, in order to restore the ecological environment in this area, a hilly watershed typical of the region of 21 ha area was brought
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Water and green growth
This report is the first major output of a project on Water and Green Growth, led by the Government of the Republic of Korea and the World Water Council (WWC). It is the result of over 12 months of research
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Rs 110-cr budget provision for watershed, soil enrichment in Karnataka
The Karnataka Government has made budget provision of Rs 110 crore for watershed and soil enrichment (‘BhooChetana') project, for the year 2012-13, which is being implemented in collaboration with the
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Roorkee IIT to help standardise silt-monitoring technology
Shimla: In an initiative backed by World Bank, the Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project has tied up with the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, for the standardisation of the silt-monitoring
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Reviving dying springs: Climate change adaptation experiments from the Sikkim Himalaya
Mountain springs emanating naturally from unconfined aquifers are the primary source of water for rural households in the Himalayan region. Due to the impacts of climate change on precipitation patterns