Rainfed agriculture: unlocking the potential

This book, Rainfed Agriculture: Unlocking the Potential, opens up vistas of new, untapped opportunities to meet the challenges of enhancing food production with limited water resources. The small catchment/watershed management approach calls for new management tools and attitudes as communities play a critical role in conservation and enhancement of precious natural resources for sustainable development. Most importantly, the policy makers and development investors will find that these new opportunities are more productive not only in terms of economic parameters but also in terms of addressing issues of equity, gender, inclusive growth and, most importantly, for building resilience of the natural resources and communities to meet the future challenges including those due to globalization and climate change.

Originally Published In: Wallingford, UK: CABI; Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI).(Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series 7).