One of the most urgent challenges facing the world today is ensuring local water security under rapid climate variability and change. This is of particular importance in a country like India, where over half of the people are involved in farming, and agricultural losses due to climate change are estimated to be as high as 30 per cent by 2080. This ethnography in the arid village of Bhiwadi, West Rajasthan empirically links the reintroduction of local water harvesting technologies with the building of sustainable social reproduction in subsistent communities.
Technology Partners: MimirTech
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/redefining-water-security-through-social-reproduction-lessons-learned-rajasthan%E2%80%99s-
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/michael-mascarenhas
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/ids-bulletin
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rajasthan
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/traditional-knowledge
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-impacts
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/traditional-water-harvesting
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/women
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/cse
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sustainable-development
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/public-participation
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-management
