Natural Resource Management

• NRM-based sustainable livelihoods development
• Formulate food security policies and programmes
• Enable communities to conserve, develop and manage their water resources
• Ensure equitable distribution of water among competing users to minimize conflicts

• NRM-based sustainable livelihoods development
• Promotion of Systems of Crop Intensification (SCI) for food security
• Studies on hydrology and traditions of water management
• Training in participatory watershed development and water harvesting activities
• Policy studies

• SWI - An Innovation
• Towards Food & Livelihood Security : From SRI to SCI in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh
• Promotion of  Systems of Crop Intensification (SCI) for enhancing fields of paddy, wheat, manduwa (ragi), rajma and maize.
• Sustainable Mountain Livelihoods
• District Perspective Plan Preparation for BRGF districts (Chamoli, Champawat and Tehri Garhwal) of Uttarakhand
• Comprehensive District Agriculture Plan preparation of Tehri Garhwal District of Uttarakhand Impact Assessment of Watershed covering IWDP/DPAP/DDP districts
• Survey & Preparation of Detailed Project Report for the pilot villages in Haryana under Livelihoods and Landscapes Programme (LLS) of TERI
• Micro-watersheds development in Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh
• Hydrological studies in Himalayan micro-watersheds
• Drought-proofing Palamau district (Sukha Mukti Abhiyan)
• Establishment of the Centre for Participatory Watershed Development
• Technical analyses of Mansi-Wakal(Rajasthan) and Auranga (Jharkhand) dams
• Studies of water management traditions in Jharkhand, Uttarakhand & Himachal
• Lok Jal Niti (People's Water Policy) for Uttarakhand
• Population and India's water resources in the 21st century
• Alternate development strategies for the Thar desert