Building capacities for natural resource stewardship

What are the major challenges facing urban drinking water supply in India?

Rethinking India’s water and climate narrative in agriculture

 How to increase climate resilience in semi-arid farming systems

Recording the climate co-benefits of MGNREGS 

Technology

Common Property Resources

Water Management

Urban Water

Groundwater

Agriculture, an important sector of our economy accounts for 14 per cent of the nation’s GDP and about 11 per cent of its exports. India has the second largest arable land base (159.7 million hectares) after US and largest gross irrigated area (88 milion hectares) in the world. Rice, wheat, cotton, oilseeds, jute, tea, sugarcane, milk and potatoes are the major agricultural commodities produced. More importantly, over 60 per cent of the country’s population, comprising several million small farming households, depends on agriculture as a principal income source and land continues to be the main asset for livelihood security. 