This publication by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) titled “Save and Grow” is a guide for policymakers on the sustainable intensification of smallholder crop production. Save and grow says that while the Green Revolution led to a quantum leap in food production and bolstered world food security, intensive crop production has, in many countries, depleted agriculture’s natural resource base, jeopardizing future productivity.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This note is in response to the article “Prospects and Policy Challenges in the Twelfth Plan” by Montek S Ahluwalia (Economic and Political Weekly, 21 May 2011)Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This paper by Montek Singh Ahluwalia in Economic and Political Weekly attempts to review the recent performance of the economy and lists the priorities and challenges for the Twelfth Plan.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This presentation by Himanshu Thakker, South Asia Network on Dams Rivers and people (SANDRP) deals with key groundwater policy concerns - framework and equity issues, the emerging realities and responses. It begins with a description of the basic characteristics of groundwater and how the resource has become a private property resource by use and legal situation.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This article by Sangeeta Deogawanka in the Geospatial World deals with the issues related to the use of geospatial technology for groundwater management in the country. Core agencies of the government dealing with the management and development of groundwater resources identify and map hotspots of salinity, chloride, fluoride, arsenic, iron and nitrate in groundwater. However, most online information is of a generic nature, lacking detailed database or methodology used. On the whole a picture evolves of national bodies looking into the groundwater policy and potential zoning on a hegemonic model, with regional state-level groundwater departments.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This article in Geospatial World deals with the analysis of the role of geomorphic features in causing and controlling the Kosi flood. The article in conclusion states that canal is a man-made route for free flowing of water towards down slope. During the Kosi flood in 2008, drainage turned into canals and they worked as embankments along both side of drainages, where drainages are flanked by canals. Thus, canal network checks lateral spreading of flood water and saves life and property in adjacent areas.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This study report by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation deals with the measures to mitigate agrarian distress in Idukki district of Kerala.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This paper in the Economic and Political Weekly presents the contours of an alternative water policy document by Ramaswamy R Iyer.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This scientific correspondence by P Goswami in Current Science is in response to a recent article in it by Sulochana Gadgil and J Srinivasan where they presented the outcome of the project ‘Seasonal Prediction of the Indian Monsoon’ (SPIM).Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This commentary by K S Valdiya in Current Science deals with the increased incidence of spells of intense-extreme rainfall, the resultant obstructions in floodways, the loss of carrying-holding capacity of rivers and the channelization of floodwater.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
The proposed National Food Security Bill aims to provide every person with physical, economic and social access, at all times, either directly or by means of financial purchases, to quantitatively and qualitatively adequate, sufficient and safe food, which ensures an active and healthy life.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This case study by the World Bank aims to understand and address the paradox at the heart of the groundwater governance challenge in India in order to elevate the need for investing in and promoting proactive reforms toward its managementAmita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has come up with the fourth edition of “Guidelines for Drinking Water Quality”.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This award winning documentary film directed and produced by Biju Toppo and Meghnath for AKHRA, a Ranchi based activist group documents the illegal displacement of entire villages by the state and highlights the miscarriages of justice brought about by the skewed development policies in India.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
A special forest bench headed by the Chief Justice S H Kapadia of the Supreme Court has on July 6, 2011 allowed French cement giant Lafarge to mine 116-hectare limestone in the forests in the East Khasi hills in MeghalayaAmita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
Action for Food Production (AFPRO) newsletter - Volume 2, Issue 2 of July 2011, focuses on water scarcity, drought and salinity, which are among the most important environmental constraints related to food security in rainfed agriculture systems.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
The Center for Science and Environment’s report on profit sharing in mining with local communities comes out in support of government’s recent proposal to share 26 per cent net profitsAmita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This paper in Current Science deals with the use of biodrainage to combat waterlogging, increase farm productivity and sequester carbon in canal command areas of northwest India.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This study report by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) deals with the measures to mitigate agrarian distress in Alappuzha and Kuttanad wetland ecosystem.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago
This report by the Strategic Foresight Group provides ideas for cooperative solutions to enhance water security in Asia.Amita Bhaduri posted 12 years 10 months ago