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Irrigation
Water-efficient sugarcane farming in Belgaum, Karnataka
Posted on 17 Feb, 2010 04:28 PMSuresh Desai is a founding member of an Organic Farmers Club in Belgaum District of Karnataka, India. It has 400 members, some of whom are already growing crops organically, while others are in the process of shifting to organic farming.
Since completing his matriculation, Suresh has been caring for the family property of 4.5 hectares, in an area where today sugar cane is primarily grown. For nearly a decade Suresh, as the manager of the farm, followed conventional practices relying on external inputs in the form of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Just like most of the other farmers near Belgaum, he grew sugar cane, a high water-demanding cash crop, and tobacco.
Negotiating participatory irrigation management (PIM) - A research study from the Indian Himalayas
Posted on 05 Feb, 2010 04:15 PMThis research paper published in the Journal of Agricultural Water Management draws on a case study from a village in the Shiwalik region of the Indian Himalayas and identifies the role of diverse actors in exploiting historic and ecological factors to derail the Participatory Irrigation management (PIM) reforms to frame water management problems. The paper explores the inter-linkages between socio-cultural, institutional and ecological factors in derailing the PIM reforms. Participatory irrigation management (PIM) reforms are implemented in India to facilitate farmers’ participation in irrigation management, through water user groups.
Monthly magazine-Dams, Rivers & People, Sep-Oct 2009, Oct-Nov 2009, Dec 2009 - Jan 2010
Posted on 25 Jan, 2010 12:56 PMInterim Report on organic farming initiatives in AILA affected areas
Posted on 28 Dec, 2009 06:19 PMCyclone Aila hit the coasts of Bengal on May 25th displacing millions from their homes and livelihoods in the Sundarbans. AID responded immediately working with Baikanthapur Tarun Sangh (BTS), Mukti and Rights & Equity for All (REFA). Relief & Rehab efforts reached out to 150,000 people in 7 blocks of 2 districts in West Bengal.
WIO press release on COP 15- Orissa Farmers’ Agenda for the World Leaders attending COP 15
Posted on 08 Dec, 2009 03:23 PMSambalpur, 7th December 2009 - The Fifteenth Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Fifth Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP 15 and COP/MOP 5) begins today, just a day after the Orissa Legislative Assembly’s current session was wrapped up in a hush half way through. The otherwise strong and majority government of Orissa has been i
Speakers and presentations at the IWMI : Bharat Sharma speaks on the use of GIS for estimating basin level water productivity
Posted on 07 Dec, 2009 02:25 AM
Findings of Basin Focal Project on the Indo-Gangetic basin
Posted on 02 Dec, 2009 02:34 PMNo! This title isn't mine. I borrowed it from Mahmoud Darwish's literary work of the same name.
Speakers and presentations of WHSC 2009 day 3 : Ashok Jaitly talks about the policy issues on water conservation
Posted on 26 Nov, 2009 03:58 AMAshok Jaitly, Water Resources Department, TERI
Policy issues in water conservation
Habil Attarwala, Furaat Earth Ltd., Gujarat
Recommendations of Working Group meeting - Planning and implementation issues related to Rain Water Harvesting(RWH)
Posted on 24 Nov, 2009 04:12 AMThe issues related to planning and implementation were largely concerned with water quality, budgeting and equity.
The group deemed it necessary that the following are addressed on a greater priority:
- Centralized vs. decentralized rainwater harvesting
- Water quality aspects in rainwater harvesting system
- Water quality management through rainwater harvesting