ADDRESSING EQUITY ISSUES IN WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN BHIL ADIVASI AREAS OF WESTERN MADHYA PRADESH

Rahul Banerjee
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Rahul Banerjee: 74, Krishnodayanagar, Khandwa Naka, Indore, Madhya Pradesh - 452001, India

Chapter 3 in New and Enduring Themes in Development Economics, 2009, pp 57-89 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThe western Madhya Pradesh region of India, which is largely populated by Bhil adivasi (indigenous people) peasants, is typical of other such adivasi regions of the country in that fragmentation of landholdings coupled with the neglect of dryland agriculture has severely jeopardised the livelihoods of the people and forced them to further mine their immediate environment for subsistence needs. In such a scenario systematic work to bring about equitable and sustainable development is hindered by the fact that common property resources are most often privatised and people who are in control do not want to let go of them. This paper details how two NGOs, SAMPARK and SAMAJ PRAGATI SAHAYOG have creatively overcome this through inspiring communitarian problem solving and the building up of social capital. However the paper concludes by underlining the fact that widespread equitable and sustainable development through the replication of such one off successes is prevented due to the lack of political capital needed on a larger scale to challenge the dominant paradigms of governance and development.

Keywords: Development Economics; Happiness; Well-Being; Political Economy; Economic of Labour; Agricultural Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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