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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From dry wells to mango auctions
PUNE: Activist Anna Hazare catapulted into national stardom following his relentless pursuit of the Lokpal Bill, but the unassuming dhoti-clad social worker has been a star in his state, and village, for a long time now. Fifty-year-old Maruti Auti recalls the days when villagers in Ahmednagar's Ralegan Siddhi, 80 km from Pune, lived in abject poverty over three decades ago.
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Irrigation facility for Sirumalai farmers
<p>Rs. 6 crore allotted for development projects DINDIGUL: Farmers in Sirumalai will soon get permanent irrigation sources to protect standing horticulture crops and tribals sustainable income generation activities, thanks to entry level activities and other development programmes being implemented under Integrated Water Shed Management Programme by the Department of Agriculture Engineering.
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Government plans to improve farm land
BHUBANESWAR: The Government has set an ambitious target to improve the condition of 10 lakh hectares of agricultural land through watershed management programmes for sustainable livelihood in rainfed areas. The target will be achieved in next five years. The Government claimed to have taken drought-proofing measures over an area of 9.17 lakh hectares.
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Just like a forest
<p>Down To Earth finds out how analog forestry has created an economically productive and ecologically diverse landscape in Sri Lanka</p>
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WB project to cover 102 more villages
Shimla: The Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project will be extended to 102 more panchayats with the World Bank (WB) agreeing in principle to provide $45 million to cover the areas left out at the micro-watershed level and consolidation of the first phase to improve sustainability. The proposal for the extension of the project has already been cleared by the Planning Commission and the Unio
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Elucidation of the 4th national report submitted to UNCCD Secretariat 2010
<p><span id="itro1">This new report released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests provides a holistic overview capturing comprehensively India's policies and programme related to desertification, land degradation & drought.</span></p>
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Himachal inks pact with World Bank to secure carbon credits
Himachal Pradesh became the first State in the country on Sunday to sign an agreement with the World Bank for securing carbon credits for its
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Purchase of Carbon Credits: World Bank to ink pact with state on May 22
Shimla: The Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project will become the country
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Soon: Indias first REDD project
<p>Forest conservation effort in Meghalaya can claim carbon benefits. India’s first pilot project to be recognized under the UN’s mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) could be in the East Khasi Hills in Meghalaya.
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Forest Dept to go ahead with map digitisation
Sub-watersheds in border areas not to be covered With the Survey of India (SoI) and the Ministry of Defence reluctant to grant permission for the digitisation of restricted maps, the Forest Department has decided to go ahead with the finalisation of integrated catchment area treatment plan for the Sutlej basin sans the sub-watersheds falling in border areas. The finalisation of the catchment a