Industry

 The laboratory of development

How will vast regions of India, where highly unreliable rainfall makes the difference between famine and sustenance, cope with climate change? Over 85 per cent of the cultivated area in this country

Publication Date: 
30/12/2007
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Wheat, Sugarcane, Groundwater Recharge, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Rural Water Harvesting, Check Dam, Afforestation, Watershed Development, Drought Management, Rural Development, Governance And Institutions, Public Participation, Panchayats, Maharashtra, Ahmadnagar (D), Rainfall Pattern, Rainfall
Forests

 Saga of two villages

DTE tracks the developments in Sukhomajri which became a model of self-reliant development in the 1980s due to successful management of ecological wealth by HRMS. But the situation has changed now. The forest department has hijacked the forest created by the villagers, while control of water is going into private hands.

Publication Date: 
14/11/2007
Down to Earth
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Forests, Fodder, Livestock, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Dams, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Rural Development, Public Participation, Governance, Haryana, Sustainable Development, Statistics
Forests

 Rolling on

Bunga took the sukhomajri story forward The first village to follow Sukhomajri's development model was Bunga, just 30 km away in Haryana's Panchkula district (see timeline: Divergent trajectories).

Publication Date: 
14/11/2007
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Forests, Fodder, Livestock, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Dams, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Rural Development, Public Participation, Governance, Haryana, Sustainable Development, Statistics
Forests

 Now what?

Government must facilitate, not control The experiences of Sukhomajri and Bunga have a lesson: given the right conditions, external and internal, villages can be self-sustaining. But their inherent

Publication Date: 
14/11/2007
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Forests, Fodder, Livestock, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Dams, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Rural Development, Public Participation, Governance, Haryana, Sustainable Development, Statistics
Industry

 When markets do work

Some innovations change lives. A favourite of mine is the village milk collection system, a cooperative model. There s a dairy in the village, people bring in milk, the dairy in

Publication Date: 
14/06/2007
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Grazing Lands, Drought Prone Areas, Fodder, Livestock, Dairy Development, Milk, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Drought, Rural Development, Industry, Public Participation, Panchayats
Economy

 No substance in budget's agriculture hype

the Union budget for 2007-08 is big on illusions, small on vision. Despite the hype about its tilt towards the agriculture sector, the budget has failed to put together a package to bail out the

Publication Date: 
30/03/2007
Richard Mahapatra, Sandip Das
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Wells, Groundwater Recharge, Water Management, Water Conservation, Irrigation, Economy, Landless, Rural Development, Planning, Finance, Services, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India, Statistics
Agriculture

 Ministers fight over funding National Rainfed Area Authority

who should fund the National Rainfed Area Authority (nraa)? The issue remained unresolved even after the first meeting of the authority ended in Delhi in January this year. Set up in November

Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
Sandip Das
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Dryland Farming, Groundwater Recharge, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Watershed Development, Conflicts, Anti-Poverty Programmes, India
Industry

 The politics of inefficient irrigation technology

Call it is one of the unknown Indian ironies. Over many years, the Indian state, through its public irrigation agencies, has systematically taken over the management of surface water systems. It has

Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Groundwater Recharge, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Traditional Water Harvesting, Dams, Reservoirs, Irrigation, Surface Water Irrigation, Canal Irrigation, Groundwater Irrigation, Industry, Legislation, India
Industry

 Urban growth model needs reality check

Urban India is beginning to explode. The question is if our cities will be able to manage this growth or will they just burst at the seams? The reason I ask this is because we still don t have a clue

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Water Conservation, Urban Water Supply, Urban Habitat, Urbanisation, Urban Development, Urban Decay, Slums, Urban Transport, Urban Sanitation, Poverty, Industry, India
Agriculture

 Dye farming

Cheap option to treat effluent

Publication Date: 
14/04/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Agriculture, Water Conservation

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