Collaborative Ideas
Water Energy Agriculture
Management Transformation
Management Transformation
Co-management of rural water, energy, land, food and other biomass resources is essential for addressing pivotal issues of declining per capita water availability, rural unemployment, hunger and malnutrition, poor quality energy service to agricultural, low resilience in agriculture to climate change, increasing water, energy and carbon
Co-management of rural water, energy, land, food and other biomass resources is essential for addressing pivotal issues of declining per capita water availability, rural unemployment, hunger and malnutrition, poor quality energy service to agricultural, low resilience in agriculture to climate change, increasing water, energy and carbon footprint in agriculture, poor exploitation of potential for substituting fossil energy and other materials with biomass, and poor use of potential for carbon sequestering that may be achieved through efficient use of rural water and land resources.
Management Transformation
Management Transformation
Management Transformation
While transformation in the management of rural water, energy, land and biomass resources is so crucial to addressing various decisive challenges the change process remains entrenched in voluntarism and subsidisation of rural livelihoods and has failed to attract advanced science and technology, and good talent and professionalism..
Resource Management
Management Transformation
Resource Management
Appropriate institutional format for catalyzing transformation in rural resource Management is something that needs to be explored through multi-stakeholder dialogues and action-research. At the moment the Founding Partners have chosen the format of a Partnership Firm to make the new beginning with a promise to explore and migrate to, d
Appropriate institutional format for catalyzing transformation in rural resource Management is something that needs to be explored through multi-stakeholder dialogues and action-research. At the moment the Founding Partners have chosen the format of a Partnership Firm to make the new beginning with a promise to explore and migrate to, diversify into and/or help initiate various other formats as and when that becomes necessary with more stakeholders getting involved and more dimensions getting added to the activities of the Firm.
Professional Services
Impact Assessment of water, land and energy management projects and programs
Various water management programs like watershed development, canal management,
groundwater management are a minimum 15 years old as in the case of the groundwater,
and over 25 years old in the case of the other two. However, the formal or informal,
voluntary or governmental precursors are probably more than 50 years old.
But do they find a place in planning, for example, for drinking water security, irrigation
security, etc.? Probably not, and that is because the impacts have never been scientifically
evaluated with respect to physical (how much water has been generated?), social (how
many families has it benefited and to what extent), economic (cost and benefit), etc.
parameters and technical, engineering and technological aspects.
The first step towards bringing these programs in the main stream of planning is to assess
impacts that have been achieved and methodologies that enable maximum and sustainable impacts. A comprehensive database
needs to be developed on impacts and natural and human settings in which they have been achieved. It is necessary to correlate the
impacts with technical, engineering and technological aspects on the one hand and
multidimensional typologies including hydrogeology, topography, meteorology,
local economy, and social milieu.
JHVA assigns a high priority to this and proposes to offer impact assessment as a high
priority professional service. It is necessary to develop a format for documenting impacts of projects of different scales - watersheds of different orders of streams, different scales of groundwater catchments, etc. so that the impacts can be compared.
Campaigns
The JHVA proposes to initially focus on the following campaigns as very essential to
address various epochal challenges like water, food and energy security, building
resilience to climate change and reducing sectoral and societal energy and carbon
footprints:
• Building a database on impacts of various water, land and energy management programs
• Integrated management of water, land, food, biomass and energy resources
• Basin scale programs for effective address of natural and man made inequities
• Achieving scales that enable economic as well as resource sustainability
• Bringing energy and industrial biomass generation on the national agenda.
Inviting New Partners
We Invite more collaborative Partners to expand collective capabilities and bringing
in newer and newer aspects on the resource management agenda. Of particular
interest are fields like taxonomy, agronomy, energy and industrial biomass and
biomass based technologies. Also of much interest are livestock and livestock based
technologies and products.