Watershed development projects in India: an evaluation
The Green Revolution that transformed agriculture elsewhere in India had little impact on rainfed agriculture in the semi-arid tropical regions, where agricultural productivity is low, natural resources are degraded, and the people are poor. In the 1980s and 1990s, agricultural scientists and planne...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Kerr, John M. |
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| description | The Green Revolution that transformed agriculture elsewhere in India had little impact on rainfed agriculture in the semi-arid tropical regions, where agricultural productivity is low, natural resources are degraded, and the people are poor. In the 1980s and 1990s, agricultural scientists and planners aimed to promote rainfed agriculture through watershed development. A watershed is an area from which all water drains to a common point, making it an attractive unit for technical efforts to manage water and soil resources for production and conservation. Watershed management is complicated, however, by the fact that watersheds rarely correspond to human-defined boundaries. Also, watershed projects often distribute costs and benefits unevenly, with costs incurred disproportionately upstream, typically among the poorer residents, and benefits realized disproportionately downstream, where irrigation is concentrated and the wealthiest farmers own most of the land. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1567592025-01-10T06:43:33Z Watershed development projects in India: an evaluation Kerr, John M. watershed management natural resources management management poverty alleviation The Green Revolution that transformed agriculture elsewhere in India had little impact on rainfed agriculture in the semi-arid tropical regions, where agricultural productivity is low, natural resources are degraded, and the people are poor. In the 1980s and 1990s, agricultural scientists and planners aimed to promote rainfed agriculture through watershed development. A watershed is an area from which all water drains to a common point, making it an attractive unit for technical efforts to manage water and soil resources for production and conservation. Watershed management is complicated, however, by the fact that watersheds rarely correspond to human-defined boundaries. Also, watershed projects often distribute costs and benefits unevenly, with costs incurred disproportionately upstream, typically among the poorer residents, and benefits realized disproportionately downstream, where irrigation is concentrated and the wealthiest farmers own most of the land. 2002 2024-10-24T12:45:23Z 2024-10-24T12:45:23Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156759 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kerr, John. 2002. Watershed development projects in India: an evaluation. Research Report 127. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/156759 |
| spellingShingle | watershed management natural resources management management poverty alleviation Kerr, John M. Watershed development projects in India: an evaluation |
| title | Watershed development projects in India: an evaluation |
| title_full | Watershed development projects in India: an evaluation |
| title_fullStr | Watershed development projects in India: an evaluation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Watershed development projects in India: an evaluation |
| title_short | Watershed development projects in India: an evaluation |
| title_sort | watershed development projects in india an evaluation |
| topic | watershed management natural resources management management poverty alleviation |
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