ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Land is a notion which broadly includes climate, topography, vegetation, soils and other natural resources. Globally agricultural land area is approximately five billion hectares, or 38% of the global land surface and supporting a global population of 8.1 billion. On the contrary, India is supporting a population of 1.4 billion from 141 M ha of net cultivable area about 55% of which is rainfed. The per capita availability of agriculture land in India is 0.12 ha whereas world per capita agriculture land is 0.29 ha. The soil still is the source of 95 % of all food produced on the planet. On the flip side, agricultural systems are the major drivers of soil and environmental degradation and a major source of greenhouse gas emissions leading to climate change. Currently, majority of the world’s soil resources are in only fair, poor, or very poor condition’ and all forms of land degradation with special emphasis on soil erosion is still a major environmental and agricultural threat worldwide. Thus, effectively tackling the problem of land degradation is a must for sustainable management of soil resources, without which flourishing the production function of the soil will be a mammoth task.
Land degradation is the decline in soil’s inherent capacity to produce economic goods and services as a result of natural or human actions. About 36.7% of the total land surface in India is inflicted by different forms of degradation of which water erosion is the chief contributor affecting 68.4% of the degraded area in the country. The economic cost of soil erosion in terms of lost C, major nutrients N, P, K and S amounts to ` 0.073 to 1.270 trillion while crop production losses are estimated to be ` 292 billion (0.2% of total GDP). Thus, restoration of degraded land is a national priority which if we fail to meet will have catastrophic consequences. Ground water depletion and water quality is the major concerns along with increased number of polluted rivers which is over 350. Since the inception of the different watershed programmes to August 2023, a total area of 100.8 M ha has undergone several treatment’s incurring an expenditure of `93880.68 crores .
Revered Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi rightly quoted that “Future is depending on what we do in the present”. Earth provides life, thus its our duty to take care of our planet. In this context, by adopting the landscape restoration approach has the concomitant advantage of ensuring surface water availability, groundwater recharge, soil moisture improvement, climate change adaptation, and preservation of ecosystem services. The National Conference on “Living with Nature: Soil, Water and Society in Ecosystem Conservation” (LNSWSEC- 2024) tries to incorporate the various facets of ecosystem restoration measures. The conference expects to provide opportunity to multiple stakeholders from various arenas to deliberate on the topics which specially enables life on earth to live in
ever-greater harmony with nature.
Themes:
This Conference will encompass following 4 themes which will initiate and allow deliberations in the various aspects of natural resources management to ensure harmony of the society with nature.
IMPORTANT DUE DATES
Submission of full length papers : 09th June, 2024
Last date of abstract submission : 31st May, 2024
Intimation of acceptance of abstracts : 04th June, 2024
Last Date of Registration : 14 th June ,2024
Conference dates : 20 – 22 June, 2024
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