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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Watershed projects to be promoted in a big way
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) plans to promote its watershed projects as a livelihood option for landless farmers/labourers and women in southern districts of Tamil Nadu. It will organise a two-day residential workshop on January 20 and 21 at Theni in which non-governmental organisations partnering with NABARD in 45 projects covering 50 villages in eight southern
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Maha babus to study states watershed projects
Vijaysinh Parmar | TNN Rajkot: Word is spreading about the watershed development projects in the villages of Rajkot district carried out by Vruksh Prem Seva Trust, an NGO, run by Premji Patel, 80. A team of 25 senior government officials from Maharashtra would visit watershed development-related works in the villages of Jamkandorna taluka on January 6.
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Report on forest carbon stock in community forests in three watersheds
<p>Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources (ANSAB), International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), and Federation of Community Forest Users’ Nepal (FECOFUN) are jointly implementing the project “Design and setting up of a governance and payment system for Nepal’s Community Forest Management under Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Fore
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A three-dimensional fuzzy methodology for flood risk analysis
<p>This paper presents a methodology for assessing spatial and temporal uncertainty associated with flood risk management. Traditional modelling approaches focus on either temporal or spatial variability, but not both. There is a need to understand the dynamic characteristics of flood risk and its spatial variability.
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Western Odisha rural livelihoods project
<p>The Kalahandi Bolangir Koraput (KBK) region of western Odisha is home to people who are among the poorest in India. The local environment can be difficult to live in as rainfall is irregular leading to intermittent crop failures, and there is often a shortage of safe drinking water. The health and education status of the people is very poor, and hence, they are highly vulnerable to shocks.
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Strategies based on natural resource management: livelihood augmentation in rainfed areas
<p>Strategies Based on Natural Resource Management deals with experiences of improving livelihoods through investments in the natural resource base. This includes both watershed development initiatives as well as specialized NRM interventions for areas where watershed development may not be possible or even relevant.
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Morphometric study of the Dudhana river basin (Maharashtra)
Watershed response to produce runoff by a rainfall event depends upon the watershed characteristic and each watershed has its exclusive characteristics. However, most of the watersheds lacks in the facility
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2010: Watershed year for Indian agriculture
In more ways than one the calendar year 2010 would go down the memory lane as a watershed year for the food and agriculture front in the country which recorded unprecedented growth rate of 4.4 per cent in July-September quarter but by December unprecedented price hike of essential food items especially left consumers in tears. As the year comes to an end, an embattled government and the Union a
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Action plan on climate change - TERI road map to guide Assam
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) is charting out the Assam action plan for climate change which will prepare a road map to help the state address the problem. This was announced by Fellow, TERI, Prabir Sengupta, at a conference on North East and Response to Climate Change
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Dependence of forests & hydrological elements and limitations of rain-water harvesting & large water storage structures in Indian context
This article will present basic facts on limitations and efficacy of large water storage versus small dams & popularly known as rain water harvesting structures (rwhs) for recharging ground water and suggests