Groundwater is one of the most challenging common pool resources to govern, resulting in
resource depletion in many areas. We present an innovative use of collective action games …

Climate change and variability present new challenges for agriculture, particularly for
smallholder farmers who continue to be the mainstay of food production in developing …

Agriculture the major economic and social activity in the globe. It is understood that
agriculture is highly sensitive to climatic variability and likely to be affected most to predicted …

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 …

The overall performance of watershed development programmes has been examined in the
state of Tamil Nadu. The impacts of major watershed development programmes have been …

In drylands across the global South, rural livelihoods are challenged by existing
development deficits, and are now increasingly vulnerable to climate variability and change …

In this chapter the watershed as a hydrogeological drainage feature that typically utilizes
land and water assets is discussed. India's central government and the Maharashtra state …

Farming systems are transitioning from a subsistence orientation to market orientation in
response to changing food demands, technologies, and policies. In India's dryland regions …

Widespread multinutrient deficiencies in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) are among major factors
for large gaps between farmers' current crop yields and potential yields. In this study, we …

Rice–wheat is the major cropping system occupying 13.5 million ha in the Indo-Gangetic
Plains of South Asia. Conventional puddle transplanted system of rice is water, capital and …