by Ashima Chaudhary, Syamkrishnan P. Aryan | May 4, 2026 | Rural Futures / Blogs
Three Years of Rural Futures: Reimagining Water, Land, and Livelihoods Field irrigation channel pipeline work near Distributary 10 of Narayanpur Right Bank Canal in Karnataka. | Photo credit: Vraj Acharya When WELL Labs started three years ago, the Rural Futures...
by Anupam Barman, Syamkrishnan P. Aryan | Jul 3, 2025 | Rural Futures / Blogs
Mapping Water, Building Ownership: A Ground-Up Approach to Water Governance Villagers huddle around the map and are quick to orient themselves and find their farms. Photo credit: Anupam Barman At Mandalgudda, a dryland village in Karnataka’s Raichur district,...
by Navitha Varsha, Syamkrishnan P. Aryan, Divyata Joshi, Shreenivas Dharmaraja | Mar 17, 2025 | Rural Futures / Research
Addressing the Labour Barrier in the Transition to Crop Diversification Bengali migrants are in demand in Raichur district for their paddy-cultivation skills. Here, they are transplanting paddy in BR Gunda village. Photo by Nabina Chakraborty Crop diversification has...
by Syamkrishnan P. Aryan, Mallika Sardeshpande, Manjunatha G | Sep 5, 2024 | Rural Futures / Research
Policy Brief: Augmenting Farmer Income With On-farm Carbon and Water Trade-offs Agroecological practices such as crop diversification (intercropping, crop rotation, agroforestry, etc.) and livestock integration offer ecological benefits such as carbon and water...
by Syamkrishnan P. Aryan, Ashima Chaudhary | Sep 3, 2024 | Rural Futures / Op-eds
Why Farmers’ Control on Canal Water Is Key to Solving Agrarian Distress in Raichur Despite the potential for farmers to earn upto five times more with 30-50% less water, they remain stuck in a low-level equilibrium of growing a single paddy crop due to the...
