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Backdrop
With increasing human pressure and a
growing need to balance competing demands
of development and environment; local
and global, we need innovative and better
ways to manage our Natural Resources.
Soil, Water and Vegetation are three basic
Natural Resources. The survival of God’s
creation depends upon them and nature
has provided them as assets to human beings.
The knowledge and skills to manage natural
resources to meet diverse requirements
of civilization have evolved over years
of adaptive learning of our ancestors.
Considering the dynamic nature of resources
and changing patterns of requirements
of their use, the present generation has
also been responding quite innovatively
to adapt, learn to maintain present and
inter-generational equity.
Integrated and futuristic management
of basin resources of a river is one such
evolving response to manage the change
and sustain the resources and dependents.
Management of water resources or hydrological
issues so far has been the only focus
in most of the basin management programs
taken up around the globe. This initiative
tries to go beyond this approach and seeks
to compliment it through provision of
exclusive space for other NRM aspects
viz.land, livestock, fisheries, forest,
minerals etc. looking at their importance
and bearing in the context of the Baitarani
as well as many other such rivers in India.
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The main purpose of the
NRM theme is to contribute to Integrated
Natural Resource Management (INRM) in the
basin in coordination with other thematic
areas through generation, analysis and dissemination
of useful information & knowledge on
basin level natural resources management
and emerging challenges, for the use of
practitioners, development agencies, planners,
policy makers and donors.
Among others, the NRM Study
will focus on analysis of status, trend
and identification of spatial and temporal
issues on the following resources and their
management patterns (traditional and ongoing)
to generate strategic information for enhanced
and transparent decision making by basin
stakeholders
- Land, land-use and land-husbandry
- Agriculture, Farming Systems (including
livestock, fisheries, horticulture etc.)
and Food Security
- Forest, NTFP and Biodiversity (Floral
& Faunal)
- Minerals
NRM themes look towards
to carry out the process of information
collection and generation through collaborative
and participatory efforts with help of contributing
and user-stakeholders with an aim to augment
the followings -
- Increased access to information by
basin natural resource users about the
possible impact of their resources use
on others and future generations
- Adoption of basin-wide appropriate
land-husbandry practices for better
basin-ecosystem health and sustainable
food security
- Enhanced farm production and productivity
particularly of small and marginal farms
on tribal uplands and coastal flood
plains
- Practicing of effective farming systems
to generate marketable surplus and enhance
livelihood diversification
- Increased participation of communities
in basin resources management decision
makings
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The basin study will build
upon existing information and literature
from different sources, expert opinion &
knowledge; field studies and research activities
etc. The present status of basin natural
resources and their trend will be analyzed
following collation of basin level information
from available data primarily from secondary
sources (on-going work). The focus will
be given on different components as well
as on their interrelationships. A critical
emphasis will be placed on the several dimensions
of physical, environmental, technical, institutional
changes within the basin boundary. Intra-
and Inter-team meetings along with peer
consultations will be the regular modes
to carry forward these knowledge-based pursuits.
These works will be carried
out in following phases:
- Inception phase
Round table discussion with local contributing
stakeholders – peer groups and
inception workshop
- Secondary data
collection, analysis and development
NRM Status Paper
Desk Study i.e. secondary literature,
government publications, district gazetteers
and web search; Critical analysis of
information to identify strategic issues
- Intensive primary
investigation on key issues
Development of study methodology and
planning for Primary Survey, Preparation
of detail work plan and Field survey
- Stakeholder Dialogue
involving various Stakeholders
- Data processing, problem
analysis, approach planning and final
reporting
NRM Status
Report
The basin Appraisal /assessment
report will draw the following aspects.
a) The natural setting
and traditional processes
b) The historical transformations
of the basin (if Available)
c) The current situation
d) Prospective and various issues
e) Broad suggestive Action Plan
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Research
Questions
- Understanding of shifts (evolving
and induced) in farming practices and
land use system vis-à-vis their
influence on basin ecosystem health,
food security and livelihoods
- Farmers’ management and
practices as coping/adaptive mechanism
vis-à-vis shocks/stress like
disasters like flood, tidal ingression
or cyclone or trends like market
influence etc.
- Water and land management practices
and options vis-à-vis small
holder farming systems
- Changing forest cover, density
and biodiversity and its impact
upon basin agro ecosystem
These will be studied for hill farming
systems including shifting cultivation
and coastal farming systems including
that of flood prone area
- Analyzing influence of Industrial
growth, mining activities, urbanization
and economic development on basin agro
ecosystem and food security
- Changes in land use pattern
- Changes in cropping pattern and
crop-diversity (species and genetic)
- Change in land fertility/productivity/resilience
- Options to ensure food security and
consequent tradeoffs
- Vertical production augmentation
through genetic, input or practice
manipulation
- Horizontal expansion through
land-use changes and other options
Emerging
Issues
- Increasing intensity and frequency
of flood in the lower catchments.
- Drought and food insufficiency in
the upper catchments.
- Decreasing trends in stocks and diversity
of forest flora and fauna.
- Changes in agro ecosystem due to mining
and industrial growth.
- Influence of changing water quality
of surface and ground water on agriculture
– cropping pattern and productivity
- Decreasing agricultural productivity
in the wake changing tenurial situation
and/or shifts in agricultural practices
- Growing influence of market forces
Cross Thematic
Issues.
- Rights and access on land and influence
on agriculture production, food security
and basin hydrology
- Management of common property resources
through collective action and consequences
on basin ecosystem-health and food security
- Implications of compensation for eco-system
services on upper catchment management strategies
- Managing degraded lands through innovative
technological and institutional options
to augment basin-ecosystem health
- Strategizing tribal farming system
to meet the emerging demands of globalization,
market influence and urgency of restoring
tribal culture and crops
- Addressing externalities emerging
from micro-watershed development projects
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Team Members
Subhranshu Kumar Satpathy
Prakash chandra Panda |
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