Subject(s): Agriculture -- Community Resourses -- Food security -- Famine policies, state- aided pauperization, cumulative inefficacy of adjustment mechanism, farmer's strategy and its relevance for drought management, production environment, traditional strategies under strain public strategy, revitalizing farmer's strategy, sustainable agriculture in fragile resource zones- technological imperatives, approaching sustainability through unsustainability, fragile regions, food security in fragile resource zones -- Common property resources in crisis, grazing lands and biomass management in western Rajasthan- micro level field evidence, biophysical and social stresses on common property resources -- Ecosystem revival : Biodiversity management in agricultural landscapes- social dimensions, reviving the social system- ecosystem links in Himalayas, poverty and environmental resource degradation alternative explanation and possible solutions, P-ERD, globalization- repercussions for fragile ecosystems and society -- globalisation