Rethinking Tribal Development: Water Management Strategies for Revitalizing Tribal Agriculture in Central India

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4673
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Type:	Working Paper
Author:	Verma, Shilp
Date:	2007
Agency:	International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Series:	Water Policy Briefing, no. 27
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/4673
Sector:	Agriculture Water Resource & Irrigation
Region:	Middle East & South Asia
Subject(s):	indigenous institutions culture indigenous knowledge rural affairs poverty agriculture water management
Abstract:	"About 8 percent of the Indian population belongs to a category listed as 'Scheduled Tribes' enumerated in the Schedule to Article 342 of the Constitution of India. Tribal people have been seen to be strongly associated with the forests, hills and remote areas, practising a unique life style, having a unique set of cultural and religious beliefs. Central Indian tribal homelands, comprising roughly 100 districts and running across the belly of the country, are home to roughly 55 million tribal people, more than 70 percent of India's tribal population. Notwithstanding the rich vegetation and good rainfall, this belt is home to one of the largest concentrations of rural poverty in the world. For millennia, tribal communities have lived in forests and survived on hunting and gathering."

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