Greening Drylands and Improving livelihood

ICRISAT, - (2006) Greening Drylands and Improving livelihood. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.

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Three thousand years ago, precursors of the Aztecs of Mexico built large-scale water management systems. The canal network in southern Mexico’s Tehuacan Valley is the largest known prehistoric water management system in the New World. But that was at a time when water and food scarcity were relatively unknown. However, the 600 million poor inhabiting the semi-arid tropics today have to grapple with poverty and parched lands; degraded natural resources and burgeoning populations; besides a single rainy-season crop grown on degraded lands, and not forgetting the abysmal state of infrastructure and the moneylender giving chase.

Item Type: Monograph (Documentation)
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Subjects: Others > Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Depositing User: Mr Sanat Kumar Behera
Date Deposited: 07 Nov 2011 10:28
Last Modified: 09 Nov 2011 07:44
URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3790
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