%0 Book Section
%A Raju, K V
%A Anantha, K H
%A Wani, S P
%B Integrated Watershed Management in Rainfed Agriculture
%C London, UK
%D 2011
%F icrisat:3568
%I CRC Press(Taylor & Francis)
%P 129-158
%T Policies and institutions for increasing benefits of integrated watershed management programs
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/3568/
%X 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...........