Sadguru Model of Rural Development Elevates Food Security

by Govindasamy Agoramoorthy

ISBN: 9789386949387
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Imprint : Daya Publishing House
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 4495.00
Biblio : xv+72p., col. figs., tabls., ind., 25 cm

Author Profile

Govindasamy Agoramoorthy is Distinguished Research Professor at the College of Environment and Health Sciences in Tajen University, Taiwan. His research ranges from environmental science to sustainable development, and he has carried out field research related to natural resource management in Asia, Africa, and South America over the last three decades. He serves in the editorial board of several international peer-reviewed journals including the Journal for Nature Conservation (Elsevier), Frontiers in Earth Science (Nature Publishing Group) and Journal of Environmental Biology (Triveni). He served as Visiting Scientist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC (USA) between 1989 and 1993. He is currently Tata Visiting Chair at Sadguru Foundation, Gujarat, India. Professor Agoramoorthy has authored 25 books, 80 book chapters, and 300 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals with impact factor.

About The Book

The farming system is considered sustainable only when productivity is maintained over a long period by enhancing the protection of natural resources with significant profitability to guarantee financial benefit to farmers. India leads the world in harboring the largest irrigated area.If India wants to improve sustainable farming practices and production, it must embark on new initiatives incorporating people, land and water with government, non-government and corporate support. In this book, the author, who is Tata Visiting Chair at NM Sadguru Water and Development Foundation, highlights the “Sadguru Model of Rural Development”in the Indian context, and how it promotes rural development at the grassroots while enhancing farming sustainability and food security. If the model highlighted in this book is adopted across the drylands of India and elsewhere, it would greatly increase agriculture output, guarantee food security, protect natural resources, and above all, wipe out poverty, which is the greatest insult to human dignity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii Preface ix <br/> 1. Partnership for Poverty Reduction 1 <br/> 2. Community Farming Promotes Food Security 21 <br/> 3. Community Irrigation Relieves Poverty 43 <br/> 4. Vegetable Farms Enhance Ecology and Livelihoods 57 <br/> Index 69