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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Farooq, Umar
• Ahmad, Munir
• Jasra, Abdul Wahid

Titel

Natural Resource Conservation, Poverty Alleviation, and Farmer Partnership

Ist Teil von

• Pakistan development review, 2007, Vol.46 (4), p.1023-1049

Ort / Verlag

Pakistan Institute of Development Economics

Erscheinungsjahr

2007

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Crop and livestock sectors are now almost equal partners in agricultural GDP. Natural resources like land, water and rangelands are important for both crop and livestock farming, which are now becoming more limiting factors of production. Agricultural production in Pakistan mainly relies on irrigation. The future expansion in agricultural production could only be achieved by utilising more efficient production techniques with least deterioration of natural resources. The available evidence on utilisation of land, water and rangelands resources in Pakistan shows that they were unwisely and inefficiently used in the past. Continuation of such practices may result in irreversible losses. Unfortunately, the farming community (the real affectée) is not realising the nature, importance, and consequences including low input-low output associated poverty trap. Conserving natural resources through community mobilisation with empowerment. The primary requirement is that local communities should own the interventions by becoming partners in the development activities of their areas. This will not only make easy access to various institutions working for finding solutions to theirproblems, it will also make the tasks of various public and private development institutions and NGOs relatively easy. This paper highlights the mechanisms of partnership in conserving natural resources. It also attempts to sensitise policy-makers and development planners towards creating awareness and practising partnership with empowerment in planning and implementation of natural resource conservation and rehabilitation projects.