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Management of Land and Water Resources with Peoples Participation in Shivalik Foothills of Northern India
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Mittal, Smriti P. K. Aggarwal, Ramesh Kumar |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | Sustainable livelihood, poverty alleviation, productive employment generation and environmental securities through natural resource conservation and management are the major concerns in Shivalik foothill region. Amongst the various alternative strategies being developed to tackle these problems, rainwater harvesting and recycling has proved to be most promising and viable. Stabilization of catchment area and preventing movement of sediment to the reservoir with vegetative/bio-remedial measures, supported by structural treatments, have proved to be most effective. Availability of irrigation water has motivated the farmers to improve land qualities by levelling their fields. Consequently crop yields and biomass production from common land have increased manifold. Community participation and social benefits emanating from the project, suggest a very positive impact of watershed approach for natural resource management in Shivalik foothills. Creation of watershed level institutions have empowered these communities for managing their resources. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://tucson.ars.ag.gov/isco/isco12/VolumeIV/ManagementofLandandWaterResources.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
