This article presents a number of contributions from an e-forum debate on issues of representation in citizen juries and similar participatory approaches in Deliberative and Inclusionary Processes which grew out of a citizen jury and scenario workshop in southern India.
This paper summarises the findings of a two-year research project, which provided detailed case studies of the processes and impacts of 22 participatory watershed development projects, and discusses implications for the future of watershed development and policy. It argues that for soil and water conservation to be successful and sustained, project must see farmers as the solution rather than the problem and so put local knowledge and skills at the core of porgrammes.