"11632","11","archive","3170",,,"disk0/00/01/16/32","2020-10-26 07:08:46","2020-10-26 07:08:46","2020-10-26 07:08:46","article",,,"show",,,,"","","","","","","","","","",,,,"Green","A S","","","","","",,"Garg","K K","","","","",,,,,"","",,,,,"","","McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom","UK","An interdisciplinary framework for using archaeology, history and collective action to enhance India’s agricultural resilience and sustainability","pub","S25","CRPS4","crp1.13","public",,,"South Asia, Water-management, Agriculture, Sustainability, Collective action, Heritage",,"The authors would like to thank Liang Emlyn Yang
for inviting us to submit this paper, which originated
in discussions at the Socio-Environmental Dynamics
over the Last 15,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes
VI workshop held at the Christian-Albrechts
University of Kiel, Germany in 2019. We would also
like to thank the three anonymous reviewers whose
comments helped us improve the article. We would
like to thank Banaras Hindu University for their
ongoing collaboration on the archaeological components
of the paper, and the Archaeological Survey
of India for granting permission to carry out that
work. This research was funded by the Global Challenges
Research Fund’s TIGR2ESS (Transforming
India’s Green Revolution by Research and Empowerment
for Sustainable food Supplies) Project, Biotechnology
and Biological Sciences Research Council
Grant Numbers BB/P027970/1, and builds upon
the TwoRains project, which is funded by European
Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation program, grant
agreement no. 648609. It builds upon the work of the
Land, Water and Settlement project, which received
support from DST/UKIERI, the British Academy and
the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research,
and makes use of data collected by colleagues who
have worked with us, beside us and before and after
us in many areas. The ICRISAT authors acknowledge
salary support from the CGIAR Research Program
Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) which is carried
out with support from the CGIAR Trust Fund and through bilateral funding agreements.","South Asia has a deep history of agriculture that includes a range of past farming systems in
different climatic zones. Many of these farming systems were resilient to changes in climate and
sustainable over long periods of time. India’s present agricultural systems are facing serious
challenges, as they have become increasingly reliant on the unsustainable extraction of
groundwater for irrigation. This paper outlines an interdisciplinary framework for drawing on
patterns from the past to guide interventions in the present. It compares past and present strategies
for water management and use in semi-arid and temperate Punjab with equatorial Telangana.
Structural differences in water use in these two regions suggest that a range of interventions should
be adopted to expand the overall availability of surface water for agricultural systems in India, in
combination with empowering local communities to create their own water management rules.
Active interventions focus on the efficient use of water supplies, and increasing surface water
availability through renovation of collective ponds and reservoirs. We argue that this conceptual
framework has significant potential for guiding agronomic and economic interventions in the
future.","2020-10","published",,"Environmental Research Letters","15","10","IOP Publishing",,"1-14",,,,,,"doi:10.1088/1748-9326/aba780",,,,,"TRUE",,"1748-9326",,,,,,"","https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aba780","https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=10.1088%2F1748-9326%2Faba780&btnG=","pub",,"","",,,,,,"",,,,,,,"",,,,,"",,,,,"","",,,,,"","",,,,,
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