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Rural areas currently are home to 70 percent of India's population. Providing rural India with better access to services, technology, education and health care will reduce inequality and alleviate poverty for hundreds of millions of its citizens. It is critical that rural initiatives be linked to empowerment and capacity-building, to achieve a sustainable and inclusive rural development in the context of the millennium development goals. The present volume is ...
Caring for the earth as the underlying emphasis, the papers in this volume deal with the conservation, management and development of natural resources, pertaining to agriculture, livestock and water resources development. The issues involved here have been seen by the experts in the context of social, economic and technical measures, aimed at sustainability at local, regional and national levels. The contributions advocate survival strategies and sustainable ...
This book covers some of the crucial issues of sustainability in agriculture, which are presented in five sections viz., Concepts and Status, Sustainable Technologies in Crop Production & Management, Sustainability of Crops in Agro-ecosystems, Agro-forestry, and Spatial Informatics in Sustainable Agriculture. The sub-themes covered in the papers are: land use planning, sustainable livelihood, shifting cultivation, wetlands, weed management, technologies in ...