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Policy in High Places: Environment and Development in the Himalayan Region Blaikie, P. M.; Sadeque, S. Z. 2000. 209 pp International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal ISBN 92 9115 23 31 Policy in High Places explores changes in land policies, the process of making policies, and evaluates their impact on land management, land degradation and resource users’ livelihoods in six countries (Nepal, India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan) in the Hindu-Kush Himalayan Region. The general study approach used has been helpful in the analysis of policies and their impact from the perspectives of common people or the direct users. The shortcoming is that the book hasn’t taken up some of the pertinent issues that the countries in the HKH region, particularly the poorer and less powerful ones, are facing such as membership in the WTO, market integration within the countries under the HKH, and the potential backlash effect of patent rights in seed technology, etc. By Jagannath Adhikari, extracted from the Kathmandu Post, Sunday, April 29th 2001 |
Manual on Contour Hedgerow Inter-Cropping Technology Ya T; Pandey A (ed). 1999. 31 pp International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal This easy to use manual on hedgegrow intercropping explains the benefits of the system for the land and the farmer in an illustrative way. The technology for hedgegrow planting and management is explained clearly and illustratively and is recommended for trainers, extension workers and farmers in mountain areas. The contour hedgegrow intercropping technology is a soil-conserving technique. It involves planting double hedgegrows of nitrogen-fixing plants along the contour lines of a slope at a distance of four to six metres. Space between the contour hedgegrows is used for crops. The plants for the hedgegrows are selected according to the needs for fuel or fodder, and also for their soil-conserving attributes.
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