Restoring Degraded Landscapes for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Improving the Livelihood Security of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Odisha, India

Land degradation is one of the major challenges that affects about 29% of land area and impacting nearly 3.2 billion people, globally. Land degradation takes many forms and affects soil, forests, biodiversity, water and socio-economic services derived from the ecosystem. Moreover, rapidly changing l...

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Autores principales: Anantha K.H., Garg, K.K., Venkataradha, A., Barik, Rashmi Ranjan, Singh, Ramesh, Padhee, K.P., Nayak, M., Dhal, N.C., Arthanari, P., Jat, Mangi L.
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Publicado: 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177778
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author Anantha K.H.
Garg, K.K.
Venkataradha, A.
Barik, Rashmi Ranjan
Singh, Ramesh
Padhee, K.P.
Nayak, M.
Dhal, N.C.
Arthanari, P.
Jat, Mangi L.
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Arthanari, P.
Barik, Rashmi Ranjan
Dhal, N.C.
Garg, K.K.
Jat, Mangi L.
Nayak, M.
Padhee, K.P.
Singh, Ramesh
Venkataradha, A.
author_facet Anantha K.H.
Garg, K.K.
Venkataradha, A.
Barik, Rashmi Ranjan
Singh, Ramesh
Padhee, K.P.
Nayak, M.
Dhal, N.C.
Arthanari, P.
Jat, Mangi L.
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description Land degradation is one of the major challenges that affects about 29% of land area and impacting nearly 3.2 billion people, globally. Land degradation takes many forms and affects soil, forests, biodiversity, water and socio-economic services derived from the ecosystem. Moreover, rapidly changing land use and deforestation in uplands leads to accelerated land degradation and generates large volume of runoff along with high rate of siltation. This runoff loss not only creates water/moisture deficit in uplands but also invades mid- and lowlands of the landscape due to flooding, eutrophication, and heavy siltation in water bodies. These changes have been accompanied by negative externalities such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, poor retention ability of the landscape and heavy land degradation. These alterations have influenced number of planetary boundary conditions which are negatively influencing available natural resources, sustainability, and productivity of the landscape at local, regional, and global scale. These challenges are catastrophic, especially in uplands, those were historically covered with forests however, converted into desolated landscapes over the period. The impact is severe as these landscapes largely belonging to marginal and small landholders which coincide with high poverty and malnutrition. With the absence of resource availability, in habitants residing in these areas are compelled to migrate to urban centres in search of their livelihoods leaving behind their valuables and families. This situation often result in a precarious socio-economic conditions including large scale unemployment and delinquency in the society. However, this also provides an opportunity to harvest surface runoff through sciencebased landscape resource conservation approaches using both engineering and biological measures. This facilitates improving the water retention ability of the landscapes which governs the water availability in surface and groundwater systems that facilitates sustainable intensification and diversification of agri-food system.
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spelling CGSpace1777782025-11-18T14:56:09Z Restoring Degraded Landscapes for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Improving the Livelihood Security of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Odisha, India Anantha K.H. Garg, K.K. Venkataradha, A. Barik, Rashmi Ranjan Singh, Ramesh Padhee, K.P. Nayak, M. Dhal, N.C. Arthanari, P. Jat, Mangi L. socioeconomics water management land degradation livelihoods agrifood systems Land degradation is one of the major challenges that affects about 29% of land area and impacting nearly 3.2 billion people, globally. Land degradation takes many forms and affects soil, forests, biodiversity, water and socio-economic services derived from the ecosystem. Moreover, rapidly changing land use and deforestation in uplands leads to accelerated land degradation and generates large volume of runoff along with high rate of siltation. This runoff loss not only creates water/moisture deficit in uplands but also invades mid- and lowlands of the landscape due to flooding, eutrophication, and heavy siltation in water bodies. These changes have been accompanied by negative externalities such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, poor retention ability of the landscape and heavy land degradation. These alterations have influenced number of planetary boundary conditions which are negatively influencing available natural resources, sustainability, and productivity of the landscape at local, regional, and global scale. These challenges are catastrophic, especially in uplands, those were historically covered with forests however, converted into desolated landscapes over the period. The impact is severe as these landscapes largely belonging to marginal and small landholders which coincide with high poverty and malnutrition. With the absence of resource availability, in habitants residing in these areas are compelled to migrate to urban centres in search of their livelihoods leaving behind their valuables and families. This situation often result in a precarious socio-economic conditions including large scale unemployment and delinquency in the society. However, this also provides an opportunity to harvest surface runoff through sciencebased landscape resource conservation approaches using both engineering and biological measures. This facilitates improving the water retention ability of the landscapes which governs the water availability in surface and groundwater systems that facilitates sustainable intensification and diversification of agri-food system. 2025-10-10 2025-11-11T06:16:45Z 2025-11-11T06:16:45Z Case Study https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177778 en Open Access application/pdf Anantha, K. H.; Singh, R.; Venkataradha, A.; Barik, R. R.; Garg, K. K.; Padhee, K. P.; Nayak, M.; Dhal, N. C.; Arthanari, P.; Jat, Mangi Lal. 2025. Restoring Degraded Landscapes for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Improving the Livelihood Security of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Odisha, India. Patancheru, India: ICRISAT.
spellingShingle socioeconomics
water management
land degradation
livelihoods
agrifood systems
Anantha K.H.
Garg, K.K.
Venkataradha, A.
Barik, Rashmi Ranjan
Singh, Ramesh
Padhee, K.P.
Nayak, M.
Dhal, N.C.
Arthanari, P.
Jat, Mangi L.
Restoring Degraded Landscapes for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Improving the Livelihood Security of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Odisha, India
title Restoring Degraded Landscapes for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Improving the Livelihood Security of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Odisha, India
title_full Restoring Degraded Landscapes for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Improving the Livelihood Security of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Odisha, India
title_fullStr Restoring Degraded Landscapes for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Improving the Livelihood Security of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Odisha, India
title_full_unstemmed Restoring Degraded Landscapes for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Improving the Livelihood Security of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Odisha, India
title_short Restoring Degraded Landscapes for Sustainable Crop Intensification and Improving the Livelihood Security of the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Odisha, India
title_sort restoring degraded landscapes for sustainable crop intensification and improving the livelihood security of the particularly vulnerable tribal groups in odisha india
topic socioeconomics
water management
land degradation
livelihoods
agrifood systems
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/177778
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