The full poverty-fighting potential of existing irrigation schemes is not being realized?largely because of inequitable water distribution and unsustainable land and water management practices. An integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach reveals opportunities to reduce poverty and improve overall agricultural productivity and sustainability in these systems. Research in India and Pakistan has highlighted one such opportunity?integrated management of surface water and groundwater?that has great potential for water-short systems with variable groundwater resources.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2005Inde, Pakistan, Asie
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2005Inde, Pakistan, Asie
The full poverty-fighting potential of existing irrigation schemes is not being realized?largely because of inequitable water distribution and unsustainable land and water management practices. An integrated water resources management (IWRM) approach reveals opportunities to reduce poverty and improve overall agricultural productivity and sustainability in these systems. Research in India and Pakistan has highlighted one such opportunity?integrated management of surface water and groundwater?that has great potential for water-short systems with variable groundwater resources.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2005Sri Lanka, Asia du sud-est
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjuillet, 2005Inde
In an opening vignette to an otherwise insightful article, Carol M. Rose (2003) comparespeople who hold intellectual property rights to poor villagers in India. They put effort and timeinto developing small but productive properties, only to have the wild tiger or rogue elephant ofthe public domain trample them or eat them up. In extreme cases, IP "villages" are abandonedand left to "the jungle" of public property.
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A case study from Orissa, India
Documents de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2006IndeThis FAO study document provides information on formal and legal basis of forests and forest management types in Odisha along with trends and changes; describes status and impact of forest management regimes including JFM, CFM and mainstream forest management; delineates lesson learnt and future challenges.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2005Qatar, Yémen, Kenya, Israël, Chine, Koweït, Malte, Inde, Barbade
La población mundial crecerá de cerca de los 6 000 millones de habitantes de hoy día a más de 8 000 millones en el año 2030. Por consiguiente, en los próximos 30 años habrá que alimentar a 2 000 millones de personas más. La FAO estima que la producción mundial de alimentos deberá incrementarse en cerca del 60 por ciento para alimentar a esa creciente población.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2005Bangladesh, Asie méridionale, Éthiopie, Indonésie, Kenya, Pérou
This paper examines how market institutions can affect links between urban and rural areas with specific emphasis on goods market integration in the national context.Traditionally, development researchers and practitioners have focused either on rural market development or on urban market development without considering the interdependencies and synergies between the two.
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresjanvier, 2005Inde, Asie
In this brief, the authors suggest five areas for action to put rural India on a higher growth trajectory that would cut hunger, malnutrition, and unemployment at a much faster pace than has been the case so far. The five areas for action are interlinked and would best work if pursued in conjunction. The authors emphasize investments with a human face that include and reach out to the rural poor and a reorientation of subsidies toward such investments: 1.
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