XIM-Bhubaneswar Conducts Session on 'Participatory Ecosystem Management'

XIM-Bhubaneswar Conducts Session on 'Participatory Ecosystem Management'

XIM, Bhubaneswar held a talk on 'Participatory Ecosystem Management' as a part of its initiative to align the future rural managers towards the problems being faced by the environment. K. J. Joy and Suhas Paranjpe from SOPPECOM, along with

their teams, came to the institute to discuss the relevant issues. The Society for Promoting Participatory Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM) is a Pune based organization that carries out action research programmes on sustainable use of land and water, low external input cropping practices, alternative technology for buildings, etc.

The focus of the talk was primarily on the concept of normative framework which again has four integral concepts under its head in the form of livelihood, equity, sustainability, and democratization. Further, the ecosystem was made the central theme of the discussion and it was stated that natural resources are ecosystem resources and that ecosystems existed in nested forms only.

Session on 'Participatory Ecosystem Management' being Conducted at XIM-B

The central aim of the organization was to encourage self sufficiency in kind and stressed on greater community participation by believing on the premise on that people are capable of causing change of any magnitude. The concept of the inherent productivity of the land was called as primary productivity and it was emphasized that the focus of agriculture in the upcoming times will be to utilize this latent factor. The concept of 'Low Input Sustainable Agriculture' (LISA) was introduced and dealt with in some detail.

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Contributed by -
Dinah J. Rodrigues,
Coordinator, IlluminatiX,
Media & PR Cell,
Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

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