%0 Book Section
%A Wani, S P
%A Rockstroma, J
%B Integrated Watershed Management in Rainfed Agriculture
%C London, UK
%D 2011
%F icrisat:3566
%I CRC Press(Taylor & Francis)
%P 35-52
%T Watershed development as a growth engine for sustainable development of rainfed areas
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/3566/
%X Globally humankind is facing a great challenge of achieving food security for the  ever growing population and growing per capita incomes particularly in the emerging  giant economies like Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The urgent need  to decrease poverty and undernourishment while protecting the environment means  delicately balancing development and sustainability resulting in increased additional  pressure on the global food production system. In the foreseeable future agriculture  will continue to be the backbone of economies in Africa and South Asia in spite of  growing incomes and urbanization, globalization, and the declining contribution........