Andhra Pradesh

Land grab is emerging as the country's most pressing development challenge - New research released at a conference organised by SPWD and RRI at New Delhi in December 2012
Control over land and natural resources has recently become a subject of heated debate in India, and is, today, one of the central fault lines of Indian politics. New research released on December 18, 2012 on the eve of an international conference on land and forest rights by the Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development (SPWD), New Delhi and the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), Washington predicts massive resource takeover spurring conflict in 130 districts of India. The research indicates that India is a leader among land-grabbing emerging nations. Not only are rights flouted at home but Indian firms risk some mistakes abroad. Posted on 27 Dec, 2012 02:37 PM

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Master's training course on sustainable agriculture - Theory and practice, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, Rangareddy district, Andhra Pradesh, January 29 to February 2, 2013
Posted on 23 Dec, 2012 10:18 AM

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Venue

Caramel Campus, Kondapur Village, Ghatakesar Mandal, Rangareddy District, Andhra Pradesh

EIA Resource and Response Centre invites applications from interested individuals to work on Environment Impact Assessment and related issues in Kotagiri and Vishakapatnam
Posted on 21 Dec, 2012 09:55 PM

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1) ERC Western Ghats Field unit at the Keystone Foundation : Kotagiri, Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu
2) ERC Eastern Ghats Office at Vishakapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

About eRc India

eRc is a Resource and Response Centre that keeps a watch on the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) processes and ensures that the impact of developmental activities on India's Environment and Communities is properly accessed and accounted for. The Environment Impact Assessment Resources & Response Centre was established in the year 2007, in response to the felt need to keep a watch, as well as to challenge, Environment Impact Assessment-EIA reports which are based on inadequate and improper assessment of the impacts of proposed developmental activities on natural India including, wild flora and fauna, rivers, wetlands etc.

Chetna Organic invites applications for the post of Programme Officer in Hyderabad - Apply by January 5, 2013
Posted on 20 Dec, 2012 07:25 AM

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Place of posting

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh

About Chetna Organic

Chetna Organic Farmers’ Association works with small and marginal farmers to improve their livelihood options and make farming sustainable and profitable. It is based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh and works with farmers in the rainfed regions of Maharashtra, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. Chetna Organic is a project of the Forum for Integrated Development (FFID).

Revitalising Rainfed Soils

The project Revitalising Rainfed Soils (RRS) of the RRA Network is anchored by Chetna Organic and is designed to improve the productivity of soils in rainfed regions. The project aims to evolve the structure of a possible public investment programme on enhancing soil productivity using organic matter.

The APWELL Project: Andhra Pradesh's experience with participatory hydrological monitoring
The APWELL project sought to improve agricultural production through controlled groundwater exploitation by the means of nearly 3,500 wells and irrigation systems. The project acknowledged the risk of over-exploitation of groundwater.Part of the solution was to only permit wells in areas that were not already over-exploited. Recharge of groundwater and increasing irrigation efficiency were also implemented. Posted on 18 Dec, 2012 02:04 PM

Preventing groundwater abuse depends on the users' knowledge of what constitutes this over-exploitation and abuse, and why it is undesirable. The success of APWELL, therefore, depends on participatory hydrological monitoring in which the users were trained in basic hydrology and charged with monitoring the hydrological balance of the watershed.

Harvesting and using roof-top rainwater - Part 1
This article provides the details of how the roof top rainwater harvesting system can be implemented at home Posted on 18 Nov, 2012 10:37 PM

Why rainwater harvesting ?

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