Orissa

Organiser: Organic Farming Association of India (OFAI)

Venue: Bhubaneshwar, Odisha

Organizers: School of Humanities, Social Sciences & Management (HSS&M)

Venue: Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (IITBBS)
             Institute auditorium, Samantapuri,
             Samantapuri, Bhubaneswar-751013

Description:
HSS&M of IITBBS is organizing a Workshop on "Environmental Impact Assessment: Issues, Challenges, and Policy Implications in India” (EIA-2012) during June 9-10, 2012. We look forward to your participation and support in making this workshop a success.

Article and Image Courtesy : One World South Asia

Author : Madhusmita Hazarika

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Regional Centre for Development Cooperation (RCDC) is a not for profit making organisation having its head office in Bhubaneswar promotes community based natural resources management for poverty reduction and has been primarily operating in Odisha since 1993. The activities of RCDC include; research and documentation, publications, advocacy and networking and direct filed intervention in 14 districts.

Organizers: South Asia Rural Reconstruction Association (SARRA), Bangalore,
                   XIMB & SAMBHAV, Orissa

Venue: XIM Bhubaneswar and SAMBHAV Campus, at Rohibanka, Nayagarh District Orissa. 

Description:
Almost 40% of the world’s poor are living in South Asia Region. Majority of the people depend on Agriculture.The sector is undergoing an irreparable loss through excess use of chemical fertilizer and pesticides imposed by the national governments through its green revolution technologies. It is characterized by mono-cropping, heavy use of external inputs such as chemical fertilizers, Pesticides,use of machinery and exploitation of irrigationresources, although GRT produced good results in the initial stages. Currently farmers are experiencing critical problems for continued production and productivity of crops due to Soil and water degradation.  Chemically used food products have lost the place in the Global market. Our much inherited ecology and bio-diversity is at a stake and getting endangered.

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Job description:
Operational Area and Sector: Interior Districts in rural regions of Odisha for Integrated Natural Resource Management and Watershed Development Projects.

These ecosystems provide a bunch of direct and indirect services to humankind. This special article in Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) by Saudamini Das examines whether the mangrove forests in Kendrapada district of Orissa played any protective role during the severe cyclone that hit the state in October 1999. 

This article by Kishore C Samal in the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) discusses how in the natural disater prone state of Orissa the authorities have not been able to draw up an effective disaster management plan and politicians continue to play politics with relief works. It argues that for dealing with these disasters and the relief and rehabilitation work that follows what is needed is the participation of the local community and functionaries of panchayati raj institutions, and coordination with national and international bodies.

It is evident that the domestic resistance to the project was variously compromised by nationalist rhetoric, imperatives of state development and absence of transnational support. The Hirakud dam project has failed on all of its objectives – flood management, hydropower production, irrigation and navigation. Its socio-economic impact has been devastating.