Despite years of study and substantial investment in remediation and prevention, soil
erosion continues to be a major environmental problem with regard to land use in India and …

This is a reprint from the book entitled “Research Towards Integrated Natural Resources
Management: Examples of Research Problems, Approaches and Partnerships in Action in …

Freshwater scarcity remains a problem for millions of people around the world, especially in
arid and semiarid regions. Watersheds provide human societies with many goods and …

A large portion of the rainfed areas (65 per cent of arable land) in India is characterised by
low productivity, high risk and uncertainty, low level of technological change and …

Integrated watershed management is the method of overseeing human exercises and
characteristic assets on a water shed basis, taking into consideration social and financial …

The watershed has been recognised as a unit for integrated resource management, where
management is not merely limited to land, water and biomass; but also concerned with …

Much of the progress in the past in terms of improving the productivity of agriculture and
reducing poverty has occurred in areas with favorable biophysical and socioeconomic …

Two third of agriculture in India is rain-fed and is also Ihe hot spot of poverty as is the case in
Asia where large proportion of 852 million poor in the world reside. Rainfed areas in …

Feeding teeming global human population, especially in the developing world remains a
huge challenge for agricultural scientists and farmers alike. In the developing world …

The ICRISAT was working in watershed development since 1972 with Vertisol technology
and piloted on farmers' fields in different agro-eco regions. However, it was not scaled …