Can Participatory Watershed Management be sustained? Evidence from Southern India
Published By: | Published Date: September, 25 , 2007Watershed development is a very important rural development programme in India. This paper studies 60 community groups in 12 micro-watersheds in South India to understand how villagers cooperate to manage watershed related tasks. The paper examines the factors that affect collective participation in watershed management and how cooperation changes once the State withdraws and hands control over management to panchayat raj institutions and other groups. The study finds that watershed institutions in most cases become inactive once the project period is over.
Author(s): D. Suresh Kumar | Posted on: Sep 25, 2008 | Views(1644) | Download (816)