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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Katalysis: helping Andean farmers adapt to climate change
The Andes have daily (rather than seasonal) temperature extremes, unpre- dictable weather from one year to the next, and a myriad of environmental niches scattered across the elevations. To survive in such an adverse environment, highland farming evolved to be robust, with complex
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Panchayats, hariyali guidelines and watershed development: lessons from Karnataka
The focus of the study is to examine what is happening on the ground in terms of practices and processes, and the role of principal actors in such processes striving to implement such as the Hariyali Guidelines for the effective management of watershed development.
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NRCAF scheme to fight water scarcity in Bundelkhand
Spurred on by clearance of a special package for Bundelkhand region, the National Research Centre for Agro-Forestry (NRCAF) will soon recommend its watershed experiment in the 13 drought-prone districts of the region to tackle water scarcity there.
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Tap carbon market by afforestation
Carbon market compensation for reduced deforestation under REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) can help cut global emissions but countries like India are not likely to benefit much from it. Instead, such countries should focus tapping the carbon market through afforestation for which there is a vast scope, asserts international environmental expert Dr Adam J.
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Watershed moment
At first glance, the lush green fields barely convince that this is one of the dry regions of Andhra Pradesh. Then, a closer look, and you wonder how the gravel-ridden red soil supports the thick growth of pulses.
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Bundelkhand to get agriculture package
Days after the Congress failed to make any electoral headway in the Bundelkhand region, identified by AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi as a stepping stone for the grand old party
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Rs 7,000cr for Bundelkhand
MUKESH RANJAN Congress general magic appears to have done the trick, as the Centre has worked out a special package of Rs 7,000 crores for Bundelkhand region comprising districts of Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Madhya Pradesh (MP). The Union Cabinet is likely to clear it in its meeting on Thursday.
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Evaluation of effectiveness of artificial recharge measures in parts of Maharashtra using environmental isotopes
India has good average annual precipitation, but its poor distribution in space and time has led to the scarcity of groundwater in many areas. Artificial recharge to groundwater requires a composite procedure along with detailed morphometric and hydrogeological studies of the area. In Maharashtra State, a
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A harvest of water
Long at the mercy of the monsoons, some Indian farmers are sculpting hillsides to capture runoff, enriching their land and lives.
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Tackling climate change: communities making a difference
This publication outlines good practices, providing practical case studies of successful disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation and mitigation projects implemented by ACT members or their partners around the world. The guide includes 14 case studies, which describe local projects that range from renewable energy to controlling water in areas that have too little (or too much).