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  title info:
    title: Grassroots frugality
    sub title: small-scale and decentralised rainwater harvesting in the Bundelkhand region of India
  name:
    name part: Singh, Birendra
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations.
  abstract: Apna Talab Abhiyan, or the 'Own-a-Pond Initiative', was started in 2003 by local farmers and NGOs with the support of the local government administration in the drought prone Bundelkhand region of North-Central India. The goal of Apna Talab Abhiyan was to revive traditional knowledge of rainwater harvesting, spread awareness about it among local farmers, rejuvenate old collective ponds, and facilitate the construction of small-scale individual ponds. In its first ten years, Apna Talab Abhiyan was a civil society-led campaign. It subsequently evolved into a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in 2013, with a focus on raising awareness and spreading know-how about rainwater harvesting. For many small and marginalised farmers, the creation and preparation of dug wells and ponds was a big investment. However, Apna Talab Abhiyan had limited resources and was unable to support local farmers financially. Therefore, in 2018, the provincial government launched Khet Talab Yojana (the 'Farm Pond Scheme'), which provided financial subsidies for local farmers to construct small and decentralised ponds in their fields. This institutional support helped Apana Talab Abhiyan scale up its grassroots initiatives, but it also brought new challenges to the NGO. The core of Apana Talab Abhiyan's existence was to stimulate frugal innovation in the local context. However, Khet Talab Yojana focused more on providing financial support and creating visible structures (ponds and dug wells). With the entrance of Khet Talab Yojana, aspects like communication with local farmers, emphasis on frugality, flexibility of design, and incorporation of tacit and experiential knowledge were side-lined. Because Khet Talab Yojana took much of the credit for grassroots initiatives and exerted a lot of control over how things should be done, Apna Talab Abhiyan was even at the risk of being appropriated. The case stimulates discussion on the role of local resources, including knowledge and (in)formal instituti…
  target audience: specialized
  note: Birendra Singh.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: Water harvesting
    geographic: India
    geographic: Bundelkhand
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Farmers
    geographic: India
    geographic: Bundelkhand
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Water harvesting
    topic: Technological innovations
    geographic: India
    geographic: Bundelkhand
    genre: Case studies
  classification: S619.W38 S56 2024
  classification: 628.11
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE Business cases
  identifier: 9781071937921
  identifier: 1071937928
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: SGPBL
    record creation date: 231221
    record change date: 20240923171945.3
    record identifier: in00005499295
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng