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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Water out of stone
A lift irrigation system helps tribals in Gujarat fight the tyranny of the seasons
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Water of life
Watershed management emerges as an effective ecological conservation method
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The fruits of water
Orchards in Vansda transform distant dream into reality as people unite to store and use the water that would usually run off
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Hoarding the rain
Check dams have marked a watershed in the chronically parched village of Hivare in Maharashtra
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The economics of empowerment
"For a long time now, we have been calculating the number of people below and above the poverty line. And, these numbers have become a hot political issue. But the important thing is to eradicate
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The miracle of the hills and the humans
CAN REGENERATING villages revive denuded hills? And, vice versa, can regenerating hills revive impoverished villages? Daulat Ram, the old man of Sukhomajri, a Gujjar hamlet near Chandigarh, once
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From bonded labourers to green crusaders
Impoverished tribals living in the shadow of the Sahyadri hills show how degraded land can be revived by simply working unitedly
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Private plantations urged on forest land
After supporting India's forestry programmes for almost two decades, the World Bank now is moving toward arrogating to itself governance of the country's forests.
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A quicksilver forestry strategy
Pressure from environmentalists has induced the World bank to greatly modify its forestry strategy at least twice since 1950.
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The raindrop
"The Raindrop" is about a village near Chandigarh in Haryana. The book tells the story how this village was able to transform itself from a drought prone one to a food exporting one through community efforts and scientific watershed management.