Spatial and temporal attributes of watersheds and the associated market failures that accelerate degradation of agricultural and environmental resources require innovative institutional arrangements for coordinating use and management of resources

This paper explores how and to what extent women and men have benefited from the build-up of social capital in technology uptake, and the role of women in this process.

Minor millets are examples of underutilized plant species, being locally important but rarely traded internationally with an unexploited economic potential.

This paper presents a framework for investigating the intersection of collective action and gender; i.e.

"Genetic erosion in animal genetic resources (AnGR) is of concern where livelihoods of the poor are affected and option values for society are being lost.

This paper analyzes how women’s participation affects institutional outcomes related to the decentralized governance of community forests in Madhya Pradesh, India.

"Collective action aims at the joint management of common pool resources.

"The maintenance of crop diversity on farmers’ fields in hot spots of plant genetic diversity is considered a ”global life insurance policy“ in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD 2001:1).

Social capital is a resource, a propensity for mutually beneficial collective action that communities possess to different extents.

Watershed projects play an increasingly important role in managing soil and water resources throughout the world. Research is needed to ensure that new projects draw upon lessons from their predecessors' experiences.

Many watershed development projects around the world have performed poorly because they failed to take into account the needs, constraints, and practices of local people.

In the arid and semi- arid Indian state of Rajasthan, tanks and ponds have been a mainstay of rural communities for centuries.