Technologies like Direct Seeded Rice provide a transformative opportunity to conserve water, improve farmer incomes, and enhance environmental outcomes. With the combined efforts...
Water management – Critical for Indian Agriculture
With climate changes resulting in erratic and unpredictable monsoons, the pressure on available water resources is increasing. To address this, Sehgal Foundation has promoted...
Harnessing solar energy for irrigation
Shifting to use of renewable sources like the solar power in a region with abundant natural resources, will not only enhance livelihoods but also reduce costs on fossil...
Biodiversity builds resilience
Erratic rainfall patterns coupled with monocropping systems have made farming unreliable and highly risky, especially in rainfed regions. Simple practices like water conservation...
Integrated small scale water resources Management in Maharashtra
Involving local communities in identifying local solutions is the best way to address local water problems. Experience of MITTRA is one such example which depicts communities...
Learning from traditional social institutions
The traditional management of Mudiyanur tank provides an interesting example of a system of management that ensured fair distribution of water to the land of all households,...
Improving livelihoods in dryland areas
People of Pampanur cluster are a happy lot with improved yields and incomes. They achieved this by giving attention to harvesting and conserving rain water, the most scarce...
Combat desertification – It’s time to act!
High human and livestock pressure on the sandy lands bereft of natural vegetation cover, are resulting in serious soil erosion and dust emissions. Unless we gear up our efforts...
Sustaining livelihoods of desert communities
Sustainable livelihoods of arid zone communities remain an important issue to be addressed. BAIF’s innovative farming system based livelihood model is emerging as a viable and...
