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Preliminary desk study on Livestock-Environment interactions in watersheds in India.

Year of publication 2001

Pages 56

Author Dr B.R.Mangurkar and Dr C.Ravikumar;Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The report gives an overview of the documented knowledge concerning Livestock-Environment Interaction (LEI) at the watershed level in India and proposes an approach for improving strategic and programmatic efficiency focusing the situation of resource poor segments of the population. The report also has a set of hypotheses, which help to establish a baseline of existing literature and documentation of Livestock Environment Interactions on watershed level in India. The results are grouped in 16 m ajor findings in the form of a contextual description and conclusions. The report proposes the areas of Analysis of the changes of dynamics and distribution of household income and indirect benefits from livestock in Watershed Development Programmes and the incidence on environment, Analysis of the dynamics of Common Property Resource utilization (importance in livelihood, carrying capacity, access and availability) etc.

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