August 10, 2014
Norman Uphoff August 10, 2014
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Preserving and enriching soil and associated natural resources within the framework of MGNREGA and employment generation is a way of ensuring and enhancing individual and national productivity in the future
August 3, 2014
Tarak Nath August 3, 2014
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Mobilizing and empowering people for a shared developmental goal and inculcating in them a sense of ownership are paramount for the effective implementation of development programmes. Setting up a community governance mechanism, bringing transparency and accountability in the implementation of programmes and transferring power to the villagers are some of the much-deliberated and critical issues with which development projects across the nation are grappling
August 2, 2014
Binod Dahal August 2, 2014
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Undaunted by the challenges of poor irrigation, poor service delivery, low rate of literacy, poor health facilities, degraded land, under-developed agriculture, and lack of basic services in Godda, PRADAN’s initiation of INRM, is slowly transforming the land, the women and the villages, bringing hope of economic self-sufficiency.
July 11, 2014
Naresh Kumar Nain July 11, 2014
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With the diminishing opportunities in agriculture and the lack of water for assured irrigation, villagers in Rajasthan are turning more and more to goat-rearing, and are realizing its viability as a livelihoods option, opening up possibilities of enhanced income and self-sufficiency
July 6, 2014
Pandit Arjun July 6, 2014
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Describing the sustainable agriculture practices being promoted by the Balaghat team, this article captures the processes employed for promoting sustainable agriculture with more than 3,500 farmers, the challenges faced and the major insights gained
June 6, 2014
Nityananda Dhal June 6, 2014
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Establishing sustainable private-public delivery systems for basic vaccination of BYP and small ruminants is bringing about change in Keonjhar, combating deadly diseases that wipe out the stock on a regular basis thereby offering hope to the landless poor
June 3, 2014
Ruchita Khurana June 3, 2014
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Using SHGs as the base to explore different ways of building traditional livelihoodsgeneration activities such as goat-rearing becomes a worthwhile journey for the tribals of Kandhamal district, who adopt scientific methods with the help of trained para-vets of the community, bringing hope to those struggling for survival
May 2, 2014
Anif Khan May 2, 2014
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Ensuring timely vaccinations for goats against deadly diseases and encouraging the
use of better practices in rearing them has had a noticeable impact on the health and
longevity of the animals thereby increasing the willingness of the villagers to consider
goat-rearing as a viable, primary, income-generating activity
April 11, 2014
Amenti April 11, 2014
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Bringing hope of food security, health and well-being to ‘Hungry Ethiopia’, the partnership between iDE in Ethiopia and Kabil from India has begun the process of transformation of small-holder families, showing them the way to self-sufficiency and growth by harnessing rainwater, introducing new techniques of cultivating crops and hand-holding them through all their challenges
April 5, 2014
Tarak Nath April 5, 2014
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Having lived through the same micro- and macro-adversities of a community and having successfully dealt with hardship, CSPs, who understand the local dialect and share the same culture, have a better understanding of the voice of the poor, enjoy a better level of trust and have greater psycho-social linkages with the people