Agricultural production in India has become increasingly reliant on groundwater and this has
resulted in depletion of groundwater resources. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) for …

Increased variability of the water cycle manifested by climate change is a growing global
threat to agriculture with strong implications for food and livelihood security. Thus, there is an …

Watershed development has emerged as a crucial intervention to strengthen natural
resource-based livelihoods in semi-arid areas in India. It has evolved from an infrastructure …

Summary Bundelkhand region of Central India is a hot spot of water scarcity, land
degradation, poverty and poor socio-economic status. Impacts of integrated watershed …

The sustainability of the environmental management programs such as watershed
intervention program relies on the understanding of the nexus of the community's …

Rainfed agriculture is important globally (80%)) with varying regional importance (95% in
sub-saharan Africa and 60% of the farmed land in South Asia) and is also the hotspot of …

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 …

Ecosystem degradation is a major threat to ecological, food and livelihood security,
particularly for resource-poor farmers in degraded and ecologically fragile regions (MEA …

The present study aimed to identify and prioritize people's participation barriers (PPBs) in
watershed intervention projects (WIPs), considering the perspectives of both experts and …

Watershed development facilitates in reducing the vulnerability of farm income to weather-
induced shocks in rain-fed lands in India. The present paper estimates homogeneous as …