?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Foar.icrisat.org%2F2448%2F&rft.title=Socioeconomic+characterization+and+analysis+of+resource-use+patterns+in+community+watersheds+in+semi-arid+India%3ASocio+Economic+Policy.Working+Paper+Series+No.12%0D%0A&rft.creator=Shiferaw%2C+B&rft.creator=Anupama%2C+G+V&rft.creator=Nageswara+Rao%2C+G+D&rft.creator=Wani%2C+S+P&rft.subject=Watershed+Management&rft.description=Increasing+realization+of+the+role+of+off-site+positive+and+negative+effects+and+externalities+related+to+soil+and+water+degradation%2C+and+the+resulting+discrepancies+between+socially+and+privately+optimal+levels+of+investments+in+soil+and+water+management+efforts%2C+has+led+to+a+shift+in+focus+towards+watershed+rather+than+farm-+and+plot-level+approaches+to+natural+resource+management.+The+problems+of+distribution+of+benefits+and+costs+among+farmers+in+the+upper+and+lower+reaches+of+a+watershed+and+issues+of+social%0D%0Aorganization+can+often+be+addressed+through+integrated+approaches+to+watershed+management+and+innovative+policies+and+institutional+arrangements+which+enhance+private+and+collective+action.+This+has+prompted+a+new+paradigm+into+natural+resource+management+research+and+a+shift+to+on-farm+and+participatory+community+watershed+management+in+ICRISAT%2C+in+partnership+with+a+number+of+stakeholders.+Three+community+watersheds+were+selected+as+benchmark+sites+for+participatory+research+in+India%2C+where+some+baseline+socioeconomic+data+was+collected.+This+study+analyses+the%0D%0Abaseline+data+from+the+two+watersheds+%5BAdarsha+(popularly+known+as+Kothapally%2C+the+name+of+the+village)+and+Lalatora%5D+and+identifies+the+major+socioeconomic+characteristics+and+constraints+to+technology+design+and+development+in+the+study+areas.+The+paper+also+identifies+gaps+in+the+existing%0D%0Adatabase+and+proposes+new+areas+that+require+further+research%2C+including+mechanisms+for+integrating+watershed+surveys+and+Village-Level+Studies+(VLS)+to+exploit+potential+synergies.%0D%0A&rft.publisher=International+Crops+Research+Institute+for+the+Semi-Arid+Tropics+&rft.date=2002&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Foar.icrisat.org%2F2448%2F1%2F565-2002-1.pdf&rft.identifier=++Shiferaw%2C+B+and+Anupama%2C+G+V+and+Nageswara+Rao%2C+G+D+and+Wani%2C+S+P++(2002)+Socioeconomic+characterization+and+analysis+of+resource-use+patterns+in+community+watersheds+in+semi-arid+India%3ASocio+Economic+Policy.Working+Paper+Series+No.12.++Monograph.+International+Crops+Research+Institute+for+the+Semi-Arid+Tropics+%2C+Patancheru%2C+Andhra+Pradesh%2C+India.+++++