RESEARCH

Sustainable NRM

Natural resource management (NRM) is a complex area. There is an imperfect scientific understanding of natural systems and how best to manage them. Sustainable NRM essentially revolve around resources (such as land, crops, seed, labor, knowledge, cattle, money, social relationships, and so on), but these resources cannot be disconnected from the issues and problems of access and changing political, economic and socio-cultural circumstances. IBRAD with his network of community leaders under program SANCALP is helping out the problems related to Sustainable NRM and it was quite heartening to see that how the community people are coming forward jointly for the cause of sustainable NRM. IBRAD is engaged in:

Identification of problem/s that can be addressed by adapting or changing one or more management practice/s,

Identification of current practices that currently impact on this problem,

Identification of alternative management practices that may influence the problem and helping out to lessen its impact

Alternative practices are assessed in their own context, ie, in relation to their own set of influences or restraints