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Author: M. Chinnadurai Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Though dry lands constitute over 40 percent of the earth's surface and contribute a lot to food and nutritional security, they still continue to be 'unappreciated gifts of nature'. Poverty continues to thrive in these lands and even when there is a high correlation between poverty and dryness, most investments in development still get made in to what is considered as high potential areas. Thus marginalization of the dryland regions in the world has contributed to the persistence of poverty and continuing concerns about malnutrition, water insecurity, land degradation, and poor dissemination of improved technologies. This paper is an attempt to analyze the livelihood security status of the two dry-land taluks (Hadagali and Kudligi) in the Bellary district of Karnataka. The objective of the paper is to construct livelihood security index of the households by identifying the existing agricultural and non-agricultural activities of all the 120 sample households classified under marginal, small and medium households. Such an analysis would reveal several pressing needs of the dryland population which in turn would be helping in targeted policy advocation. The study revealed that income from agriculture and allied activities formed the major share (86.7 percent) of the sample households with medium landholdings, and lowest among marginal households (42.62 percent). Though livestock played vital role in supplementing the family income it was also found that rearing of sheep and goat as not profitable. The share of borrowings exceeded 50 percent in all the households. The medium households were found to be well-off when compared to others but it was also found that their total consumption expenditure slumped by 34.2 percent during the period of lean agriculture. It was found that during lean season the marginal households were able to fend themselves off better as they could switch to other nonagricultural options but small and medium households find it difficult to pursue options other than farming. In general the overall livelihood security index was high among medium (53.65 per cent) when compared with small (46.43 percent) and marginal households (38.44 percent).
Author: M. Chinnadurai Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Though dry lands constitute over 40 percent of the earth's surface and contribute a lot to food and nutritional security, they still continue to be 'unappreciated gifts of nature'. Poverty continues to thrive in these lands and even when there is a high correlation between poverty and dryness, most investments in development still get made in to what is considered as high potential areas. Thus marginalization of the dryland regions in the world has contributed to the persistence of poverty and continuing concerns about malnutrition, water insecurity, land degradation, and poor dissemination of improved technologies. This paper is an attempt to analyze the livelihood security status of the two dry-land taluks (Hadagali and Kudligi) in the Bellary district of Karnataka. The objective of the paper is to construct livelihood security index of the households by identifying the existing agricultural and non-agricultural activities of all the 120 sample households classified under marginal, small and medium households. Such an analysis would reveal several pressing needs of the dryland population which in turn would be helping in targeted policy advocation. The study revealed that income from agriculture and allied activities formed the major share (86.7 percent) of the sample households with medium landholdings, and lowest among marginal households (42.62 percent). Though livestock played vital role in supplementing the family income it was also found that rearing of sheep and goat as not profitable. The share of borrowings exceeded 50 percent in all the households. The medium households were found to be well-off when compared to others but it was also found that their total consumption expenditure slumped by 34.2 percent during the period of lean agriculture. It was found that during lean season the marginal households were able to fend themselves off better as they could switch to other nonagricultural options but small and medium households find it difficult to pursue options other than farming. In general the overall livelihood security index was high among medium (53.65 per cent) when compared with small (46.43 percent) and marginal households (38.44 percent).
Author: Jagdish Chander Dagar Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 8132216628 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 404
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Agroforestry, the word coined in early seventies, has made its place in all the developed and the developing countries of the world and is now recognized as an important approach to ensuring food security and rebuilding resilient rural environments. India has been an all-time leader in agroforestry. The South and Southeast Asia region comprising India is often described as the cradle of agroforestry. Almost all forms of agroforestry systems exist across India in ecozones ranging from humid tropical lowlands to high-altitude and temperate biomes, and perhumid rainforest zones to parched drylands. The country ranks foremost among the community of nations not only in terms of this enormous diversity and long tradition of the practice of agroforestry, but also in fostering scientific developments in the subject. Agroforestry applies to private agricultural and forest lands and communities that also include highly erodible, flood-prone, economically marginal and environmentally sensitive lands. The typical situation is agricultural, where trees are added to create desired benefits. Agroforestry allows for the diversification of farm activities and makes better use of environmental resources. Owing to an increase in the population of human and cattle, there is increasing demand of food as well as fodder, particularly in developing countries like India. So far, there is no policy that deals with specifics in agroforestry in India. But, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research has been discussing on the scope of having a National Agroforestry Policy in appropriate platforms. However, evolving a policy requires good and reliable datasets from different corners of the country on the subject matter. This synthesis volume containing 13 chapters is an attempt to collate available information in a classified manner into different system ecologies, problems and solutions, and converging them into a policy support.
Author: Anandkumar Naorem Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9811991596 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 714
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This contributed volume describes management practices based on interdisciplinary and convergence science approaches from different disciplines of agricultural science to enhance the resilience of dryland agriculture. The main focus of this book is to address the current issues and trends along with future prospects and challenges in adopting salient agricultural management practices in drylands globally under a climate-change scenario. Climate change and global warming have profound repercussions on increasing frequency, severity, and duration of droughts and/or floods, which may have implications for future productivity of dryland agriculture, e.g., more water shortages or abundances and high or low runoff rates, diminished crop yields, and reduced water productivity. In past few years, many technological advancements and management strategies have been evolved to tackle the climate-induced risks of dryland agriculture considering interdisciplinary and convergence approaches that integrate knowledge from multi-disciplines. This book is an attempt to bridge the gap in literature by unraveling controversies and characteristics of dryland ecosystems under the changing climate and dealing with detailed procedures of applying the advanced practices adapted to climate change for management of dryland agriculture. This edited book is of interest to ecologists, economists, environmentalists, geologists, horticulturalists, hydrologists, soil scientists, social scientists, natural resource conservationists and policy makers dealing with dryland agriculture. This book offers a broad understanding of dryland agriculture and assists the reader to identify both the current as well as the probable future state of dryland agriculture in a global context.
Author: Mrityunjay M. Jha Publisher: Concept Publishing Company ISBN: 9788180690969 Category : Sustainable agriculture Languages : en Pages : 612
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This Edited Volume Deals With Earth-Its Conservation, Management Of Natural Resources, Agriculture, Livestock And Water Resources Development. It Is Divided Into Five Parts-Natural Resources-Sustaible Livestock Development-Sustainable Agriculture-Policies-Foundation Day Lectures. Advocates Strategies Needed To Save Mankind And Our Planet In The New Millennium.
Author: Seema Purushothaman Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 8132216261 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 220
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This volume is a compilation of essays that focus on livelihood issues faced by forest communities of the southern Western Ghats region of India. Communities living along the fringes of forests are, more often than not, overlooked in academic and policy discussions. However, they face considerable pressures, being sandwiched between conservation endeavours and the forces of urbanization and commercialization. The chapters in this book provide an insight into the kinds of livelihood issues these communities face and the potential means that can be adopted to sustain these livelihoods. This volume provides a unique alternative perspective by locating livelihood issues within socio-ecological-economic narratives of communities living at the intersection of the three southern Indian states of Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and suggests directions for policies to address these challenges.
Author: M. Chinnadurai
Author: M. Chinnadurai
Author: Jagdish Chander Dagar
Author: N. Seemkowsar
Author: N. V. Shwetha
Author: Anandkumar Naorem
Author: B. Yashodhara
Author: H.V. Harishkumar
Author: Mrityunjay M. Jha
Author: N. Mamathalakshmi
Author: Seema Purushothaman