Rajasthan’s one of the major sources of livelihood is Animal husbandry but its main problem is grazing and drinking water. Taking cognizance of this, GVNML initiated a massive programme for rejuvenating village common pasturelands that over the years have become completely degraded due to collapse of management systems. The long-term objective of this programme was to develop village commons as a base for fodder resources and demonstrate that village commons can be developed and made productive by applying simple technology.

In order to design and develop an appropriate technology especially suited to rejuvenating the vegetal cover on village common lands and to improve their ecology in arid and semi-arid regions, GVNML went through the following process: