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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Five micro watershed programmes coming up
Entry level activities have commenced at an estimated cost of Rs.3.9 lakh THENI: Five micro watershed programmes covering nine villages have been taken in three blocks at an estimated cost of Rs.96.11 lakh. Entry level activities have commenced in these water sheds at an estimated cost of Rs.3.9 lakh.
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Meet crusader of green cause
BHUBANESWAR: She had no formal education beyond Class V and was married off at age 12, but for her sheer leadership qualities and dedication for saving water as a natural resource and other green initiatives, she has become a role model for the youths in Bihar.
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Fair deals for watershed services: lessons from a multi-country action-learning project
This report explores the evidence of whether payments for watersheds can be good for ecosystems and for reducing poverty too. It describes what the protagonists in a range of watershed sites around the world have learned in their efforts to set up such payment schemes. <br>
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Sustainable groundwater development through integrated watershed management for food security
This paper discusses the results from on-farm community watersheds through groundwater management as the drivers for sustainable management of watersheds in dry land areas. The issues of sustainable development and management of the groundwater resource through integrated watershed management (IWM) approach are also dealt with, in the context of food production and security.
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Water and development
Faced with mounting shortages of water, a worsening trend in water pollution and growing damages from climate change, the international community must find additional ways to support countries in managing their water resources.
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Management of highland wetlands in central Kenya: the importance of community education, awareness and eco-tourism in biodiversity conservation
<p>The loss of natural habitats through destructive anthropogenic activities has been identified as one of the major drivers of environmental degradation. This is even more prevalent in developing countries
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Is India ready to implement REDD Plus? a preliminary assessment
This discussion paper has been prepared by TERI, for COP15 (2009) as a deliverable for project titled
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Graft affects watershed programme
Anantapur, Dec. 29: Watershed management scheme to conserve rainwater in rural areas is mired in corruption as officials and contractors have colluded to swallow government funds in Anantapur district.
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Glaciers as a source of ancient and labile organic matter to the marine environment
Coastal ecosystems are sensitive to changes in the quantity and lability of terrigenous dissolved organic matter (DOM) delivered by rivers. The lability of DOM is thought to decrease with age, but this view stems from work in watersheds where terrestrial plant and soil sources dominate streamwater DOM.