Dushkal Nivaranasathi Shashwat Upayanchi Akhni (Planning sustainable measures to tackle drought)
Author: Crispino Lobo
This article written by Crispino Lobo, Managing Trustee, WOTR published in Vanrai Magazine talks about community driven intergrated watershed development and efficient water use management Download Article
Tag: Water Watershed Development
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From water to agriculture, well-being and beyond
Author: Arjuna Srinidhi, Crispino Lobo, Marcella D'Souza
In this special feature published in the India Water Portal, WOTR’s Arjuna Srinidhi (Senior Researcher, Climate policy), Marcella D’Souza (Director, WOTR Centre for Resilience Studies) and Crispino Lobo (Managing Trustee)…
Tag: Agriculture SDGs Water
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Making Biodiversity A Community Resource, The People’s Biodiversity Register: A “How-To” Manual
Author: Crispino Lobo, Dharmaraj Patil, Girish Jathar, Marcella D'Souza, Rahul Mungikar, Rajesh Rajak, Sushil Bajpai
This manual provides step-by-step guidance to non-experts on how to conduct and formulate a PBR (People’s Biodiversity Register) with the engagement of the local community. The PBR manual is an…
Tag: Biodiversity Biodiversity Conservation PBR
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Participatory Net Planning: A Practitioners Handbook
Author: Crispino Lobo
PNP was born of the need to develop a practical, participation-promoting and inclusive methodology that is at the same time pedagogically and technically sound. The PNP methodology grew out of…
Tag: Capacity Building Net planning
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Agro-Met Services and Farmer Responsiveness to Advisories: Implications for Climate Smart Agriculture
Author: Crispino Lobo, Nitin Kumbhar, Prithviraj Gaikward, Ramkumar Bendapudi
This chapter in ‘Handbook of Climate Change Resilience’ aims to understand the nature and importance of different components of WOTR advisory system and the response of farmers to the agro-met…
Tag: Agro-advisory system Climate Smart Advisories Farmer response Onion and Pearl millet
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Watershed Development, Resilience and Livelihood Security: An Empirical Analysis
Author: Abraham Samuel, Anuradha Phadtare, Crispino Lobo, Dipak Zade, Neha Gupta, Shreyas Srivatsa, Vinit Raskar
In recent times, watershed development is increasingly seen as an important strategy to mitigate weather-related risks and build resilience and adaptive capacities of communities to the impacts of climate variations…
Tag: Livelihoods Resilience Watershed Development
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MOBILE PHONE DELIVERED WEATHER BASED CROP ADVISORIES IN INDIA: THE CASE FOR AN INTEGRATED APPROACH
Author: Crispino Lobo
With rising overall temperature, intra-seasonal and inter-annual weather variability will increase resulting in more losses and suffering to farmers, especially small holders, who are ill-prepared to cope with these climate-induced…
Tag: Agriculture Agrimate Climate Change Weather based Crop Advisory Weather Decision Support System
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People’s Biodiversity Register A How-To manual
Author: Crispino Lobo, Dharmaraj Patil, Girish Jathar, Marcella D'Souza, Rahul Mungikar, Rajesh Rajak, Sushil Bajpai
Importance of protecting biodiversity Biodiversity is our heritage that will protect us. Hence, it is important to protect our biodiversity. With the the Biological Diversity Act, 2002, the goal of…
Tag: Biodiversity People’s Biodiversity Register
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Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation Systems in Watershed Development: Case Studies of Applied Tools
Author: Abraham Samuel, Crispino Lobo
Watershed development is one of the largest developmental interventions in the country in terms of resources, geographical spread and agencies involved. The investments in watershed development programmes (Drought Prone Areas…
Tag: Participatory Monitoring Watershed Development
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Making Smallholder Farming Climate-smart Integrated Agrometeorological Services
Author: Crispino Lobo, K V Rao, N Chattopadhyay
Climate change is accompanied by increasing weather uncertainty. Farmers, especially smallholder farmers, need advance warning of emergent weather conditions at a local level. Mobile telecommunication systems are increasingly cost-effective and…
Tag: Agriculture Climate Change Economy
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