Farm Pond Ecosystem-a Nature-Based Solution to the Global Challenges of Small holder Farmers

Author(s)	Mr. Parth Sarthi
Country	India
Abstract	Small holder farmers have been grappling with multiple challenges over the period across the globe. Broadly, these are categorized into three segments: social challenges, economic challenges, and environmental challenges. This paper emphasizes on farm pond ecosystem that emerges as the ‘one size fits all’ to global challenges faced by small holder farmers. It gives access to the water resources, creating an employment for the household and thus absorbing growing population pressure of natural land division. It gives easy access to women for water, provide nutrition to the family and creates employment. It helps to promote regular income of the farmers through pond based integrated farming technique by utilizing local available resources and knowledge by lowering input cost. It addresses water depletion through harvesting rainwater, check soil erosion & enhances biodiversity by generating vegetation around pond for economic activities. Such ecosystem approach leads to nature-based solution.
Keywords	Farm Pond, social challenges, economic challenges, environmental challenges, Integrated Farming System, Nature based Solution
Field	Sociology > Economics
Published In	Volume 7, Issue 4, July-August 2025
Published On	2025-07-06
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2025.v07i04.42216
Short DOI	https://doi.org/g9s89x

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