By M. Dinesh Kumar,Nitin Bassi,A. Narayanamoorthy,M.V.K. Sivamohan
It is changing into more and more well-known that for the optimum sustainable improvement and use of normal assets, an built-in method of water administration, agriculture, foodstuff security and strength is needed. This "nexus" is now the focal point of significant realization by means of researchers, policy-makers and practitioners.
In this publication, the authors express how those concerns are being addressed in India as a part of its fiscal improvement, and the way those supplies classes for different constructing countries. They deal with the conflicting claims of water assets for irrigation and hydropower, the place either are scarce on the nationwide point for fostering water and effort defense. additionally they consider the courting among water for irrigated agriculture and loved ones use and its effect on rural poverty. They identify weaknesses within the present hydropower improvement programme in India which are preventing it from being an ecologically sustainable, socially simply and economically doable way to assembly growing to be power demand.
The empirical analyses offered express the big scope for co-management of water, power, agricultural development and nutrition defense via applicable technological interventions and marketplace instruments.
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The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus: Lessons from India for Development (Earthscan Studies in Natural Resource Management) by M. Dinesh Kumar,Nitin Bassi,A. Narayanamoorthy,M.V.K. Sivamohan
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