Umbrella Programme on Natural Resources Management

For the purposes of this policy, the NRM portfolio can be broadly categorized under the following groups:

• Core / priority areas
  
  
• Supplementary / support areas
  
  
• Information & Knowledge Management (IKM) and Capacity Building

a) Core / priority areas : comprising

• soil and water conservation (including watershed programmes, dryland farming systems)
• plantation and horticulture (tree based farming, Bamboo based farming, wadi development, organic farming, energy plantations)
• forestry activities (rehabilitation and management / Community Forest management, biodiversity conservation)
• farming systems management (including livestock and aquaculture resources)
• climate change adaptation / Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

b) Supplementary / support areas : including forward and backward linkages and livelihood generating activities:

• comprising of processing, storage, marketing,
• critical rural infrastructure (including rural roads, minor irrigation, drinking water)
• renewable energy (micro/mini-hydel, biomass based power generation, biofuels, wind-power, solar power)
• livelihood generating activities (dairy, poultry, fisheries, etc)
• micro-finance
• any other activity which supports the efficient implementation of the projects covering the core areas and thereby intensifying their impact.

c) Information & Knowledge Management (IKM) and Capacity Building : In order to allow the first two groups of activities mentioned above to function effectively for sectoral impact, necessary enablers such as capacity building, project preparation, planning, infrastructure, Information & Knowledge Management systems, etc. would be covered under the NRM sector.