<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Improved Livelihoods and Water Productivity through Integrated Watershed Management – A Case Study from China"^^ . "ICRISAT in partnership with Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences (GAAS), and Yunnan\r\nAcademy of Agricultural Sciences (YAAS) implemented two benchmark watersheds namely\r\nLucheba Watershed at Guizhou and Xiaoxincun watershed in Yunnan provinces for the ADBICRISAT\r\nproject on “Improving Management of Natural Resources with Sustainable Rainfed\r\nAgriculture” during 2003-2006. Both the watersheds in China had vast untapped potential for\r\nenhancing agricultural productivity, however due to low adoption of improved management\r\npractices and lack of knowledge to the farmers, the yields till 2002 were low and natural\r\nresources like soil and water were prone to severe degradation. Through participatory\r\nmanagement, the consortium embarked on implementing integrated watershed management\r\nprogram (IWMP) through improved rainwater management and harvesting, improved soil,\r\ncrop and pest management options as well as income-generating microenterprises for the\r\ncommunity members. The Lucheba benchmark watershed with 1284 mm amount of rainfall\r\nannually undertook two drinking water schemes for the villagers as an entry point activity\r\nby bringing spring water from hills by pipe to the village. Construction of 151 rainwater\r\nharvesting structures cum irrigation water storage tanks, plantation of 133,600 trees on\r\n100 ha wasteland, construction of approach road and crop diversification with high-value\r\nvegetable crops in the watershed were undertaken by the community through IWMP. As a\r\nresult, the family income in Lucheba watershed increased to US$ 2582 in 2007 against the\r\nbaseline of US$ 973 per annum in 2002. In both the watersheds, empowerment of women\r\nwas evident with improved livelihoods and incomes which they could spend. The IWMP\r\ninterventions resulted in enhancing rainwater use efficiency along with the net incomes in\r\nXiaoxincun watershed also. The vegetable growers association and the farmers groups in both\r\nthe watersheds effectively implemented the watershed activities and successfully protected\r\nthe natural resources by reducing the erosion using the biogas production from the pig\r\nexcreta, avoiding cutting the trees for cooking, controlling soil erosion, enhancing water use\r\nefficiency and diversifying the crops and livelihood options."^^ . "2013" . . . "International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Y"^^ . "Dixin"^^ . "Y Dixin"^^ . . "T K"^^ . "Sreedevi"^^ . "T K Sreedevi"^^ . . "Z"^^ . "Li"^^ . "Z Li"^^ . . "V"^^ . "Reddy"^^ . "V Reddy"^^ . . "R"^^ . "Sudi"^^ . "R Sudi"^^ . . "S P"^^ . "Wani"^^ . "S P Wani"^^ . . . . . . "Improved Livelihoods and Water Productivity through Integrated Watershed Management – A Case Study from China (PDF)"^^ . . . . . "ICRISAT-RDS_RP_61_IMproved_2013.pdf"^^ . . . "Improved Livelihoods and Water Productivity through Integrated Watershed Management – A Case Study from China (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "indexcodes.txt"^^ . . . "Improved Livelihoods and Water Productivity through Integrated Watershed Management – A Case Study from China (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "Improved Livelihoods and Water Productivity through Integrated Watershed Management – A Case Study from China (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "Improved Livelihoods and Water Productivity through Integrated Watershed Management – A Case Study from China (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "Improved Livelihoods and Water Productivity through Integrated Watershed Management – A Case Study from China (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #7234 \n\nImproved Livelihoods and Water Productivity through Integrated Watershed Management – A Case Study from China\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Watershed Management"@en . . . "Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics"@en . .