With India emerging as the world’s largest groundwater irrigator, marginal farmers and tenants in many parts have come to depend on informal water markets for irrigation. Power subsidies have grown these markets and made them pro-poor, but are also responsible for groundwater depletion, and for financial troubles of electricity distribution companies of India or DISCOMs. Gujarat has successfully reduced subsidies by rationing farm power supply, and West Bengal has done so by charging farmers commercial power tariff on metered consumption.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2017Inde
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2017Inde, Népal, Maroc, Afrique du Sud
With current rates of land degradation reaching ten to twelve million ha per year, there is an urgent need to scale up and out successful, profitable and resource-efficient sustainable land management practices to maintain the health and resilience of the land that humans depend on. As much as 500 million out of two billion ha of degraded land, mainly in developing countries, have restoration potential, offering an immediate target for restoration and rehabilitation initiatives.1 In the past, piecemeal approaches to achieving sustainable land management have had limited impact.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2017Inde, Asie méridionale
Many Indian capitals are rapidly becoming megacities due to industrialization and rural–urban emigration. Land use within city boundaries has changed dynamically, accommodating development while replacing traditional land-use patterns. Using Landsat-8 and IRS-P6 data, this study investigated land-use changes in urban and peri-urban Hyderabad and their influence on land-use and land-cover. Advanced methods, such as spectral matching techniques with ground information were deployed in the analysis.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2017Inde, Asie méridionale
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2017Inde, Népal, Bangladesh
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Library ResourceDocuments de politique et mémoiresdécembre, 2017Inde
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Library ResourceRapports et recherchesdécembre, 2017Inde, Asie méridionale
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