relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/3568/
title: Policies and institutions for increasing benefits of integrated watershed management programs
creator: Raju, K V
creator: Anantha, K H
creator: Wani, S P
subject: Watershed Management
description: One of the most challenging policy issues for a long time has been conservation and  management of land and water resources for sustainable agriculture and poverty reduction,  specifically in rainfed areas. Rainfed agriculture contributes 60% of world’s staple  food and is being practiced on 80% of the world’s agricultural area (FAOSTAT 2005).  Water is a limiting factor in achieving food production (crop growth) in semi-arid  and dry subhumid zones (SEI 2005). Nearly two-thirds of India’s agriculture is based  on rainfed areas and contributes about 9% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)1. As  the source of growth in irrigated areas declines, rainfed agriculture must increase to  fill the gap...........
publisher: CRC Press(Taylor & Francis)
date: 2011
type: Book Section
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/3568/1/Chapter_5.pdf
identifier:   Raju, K V and Anantha, K H and Wani, S P  (2011) Policies and institutions for increasing benefits of integrated watershed management programs.   In:  Integrated Watershed Management in Rainfed Agriculture.   CRC Press(Taylor & Francis), London, UK, pp. 129-158.  ISBN 978-0-415-88277-4