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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India's 'constant gardeners'
Local communities are creatively adapting traditional knowledge to cope with climate change Keya Acharya / August 21, 2010, 0:41 IST In some remote villages in India, which are most unlikely to pose as models of development, a quiet rejuvenation is taking place, with communities learning to adapt to the climate change reality of the country today. Everyone knows by now that one of the fore
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Watershed development training programme from today
Udhagamandalam: A six-day capacity building programme on
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Plan panel mulls cess on groundwater usage
In its action plan on water security, the Planning Commission will likely recommend a cess on the use of groundwater. The quantum of cess will be state-specific and will depend on the volume of water used by farmers.<br />
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Training on watershed management held
SEPPA, Aug 9: The villagers of Upper Liyak in particular and the district as a whole are lucky to get a centrally sponsored scheme like Integrated Watershed Management<br /><br />Programme (IWMP), observed East Kameng Deputy Commissioner Tope Bam while addressing trainees at a day-long training on IWMP at Kameng Hall on August 7 last.<br />
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The Global Tiger Recovery Program - Initial Draft
<p>Following the decision of the Pre-Tiger Summit Partners Dialogue meeting (Bali, Indonesia, July 12-14, 2010), an initial draft of the program underpinning efforts to help wild tigers recover and double in population over the next twelve years was released on July 31 by the Global Tiger Initiative (GTI) Secretariat for feedback from Tiger Range Countries, other GTI partners, and interested stake
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Role of Integrated Watershed Management Programme in controlling erosion and reclaming wastelands in India
<p>India has about 55.27 million hectares (m ha) of wasteland. These are not suitable for any purpose and are exposed to the vagaries of nature like weathering, gully erosion, etc. The Department of Land Resources of the Ministry of Rural Development has been implementing three area development programmes since 1995, viz.
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C'magalur gets Rs 25 cr from NABARD
A sum of Rs 25 crore has been granted to Chikmagalur district by NABARD through non governmental organisations for the development of rural areas by implementing watershed project with the help of villagers, informed NABARD Assistant Executive Dr Diwakar Hegde. He was speaking after the inauguration of Hasiru Habba programme organised by NABARD - Bhoomi Susthira Abhivriddhi Samsthe in associati
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Generalization of relationship between antecedent moisture and antecedent rainfall for SCS-CN-based rainfall-runoff model
One of the popular methods to estimate the depth of surface runoff for a given rainfall is the Soil Conservation Service Number (SCS-CN) method. In this method, variation of antecedent moisture condition (AMC) is not continuous.
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Plan panel says fiscal prudence must to post 9-10% growth
India will have cut oil, food and and fertiliser subsidies and even consider raising their prices to touch 9 per cent growth in the coming years and put fiscal consolidation back on track. While the economy will grow 9 per cent in 2011-12, the terminal year of the Eleventh Plan (2007-08 to 2011-12), the average growth rate during the five-year period will be only 8.1 per cent.