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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"Women know how to manage better"
SMITA GHATE was assistant collector in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar District from January 1997 to January 1998. She was transferred for taking a proactive stand on the participation of women in rural development programmes. She was also actively involved in the
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Grafting ziziphus
A new grafting technique for ziziphus (known as her} has been introduced by the Mithawan Watershed Management Project in Pakistan. Ziziphus is abundantly found in south Asia. Its products include
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Tall promises
The benefits of a watershed develqpment programme in Anantapur fail to trickle down to poor farmers
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Regaining a paradise
Involvement of locals in the management of natural resources has earned remarkable dividends for the Doon valley
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Watershed management is not equitable
<font class='UCASE'>N K Sanghi</font> , director, National Institute of Agriculture Extension and Management in Hyderabad Andhra Pradesh , has been advocating a modified concept of watershed management that addresses the issue of equity. Sanghi, who spo
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Pouring prosperity
The micro watershed development project in Maharashtra has put a stop to what was earlier an annual ritual of deserting the drought prone villages of Marathwada by their residents
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The curse of the white gold: the Aral sea crisis
This publication focusses on the Aral Sea crisis - the result of economic processes set in motion by the planners of the erstwhile Soviet Union in the 1950s. It is one of the biggest ecological disasters, second only to Chernobyl, leading to a total collapse of the socio-economic life of the people.
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Echoes from America
Now York city's insistence that its up country watershed ares clean up their act has become a development versus environment issues in the US a lessons for all Indian cities
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New initiative
THE watershed development programme in the country is all set to get a major thrust with the decision of the ministry of rural areas and employment to set aside Rs 3,000 crore - almost half of
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Watershed deals
Indo Bangladesh water talks seem to have taken a positive turn while critics still consider the issue a washed out case