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A Package of Practices for Climate-Smart Agriculture
Over the past year, we have been working with our grassroots partner Prarambha and farming communities on a a curated, people-centric set of interventions to revive Raichur’s degraded lands and improve farmer incomes
How Often are India’s Farming Patterns Changing? With IIT Delhi, We Turn to New Land Use Maps for Answers
Remote sensing data validated through reports from the ground can capture changes in spatial agricultural patterns down to plot level. This blog sheds light on land use maps developed by IIT Delhi called IndiaSAT.
India is Running Out of Phosphorus. Does the Solution Lie in Our Sewage?
Published in The Hindu
WELL Labs Launch Event Proceedings: Research and Innovation for an Uncertain Future
Water, Environment, Land and Livelihoods (WELL) Labs was formally launched on July 26, 2023, at the India International Centre in New Delhi. This document summarises the keynote lecture and the panel discussion on what it will take to deliver a future for rural India that is both ecologically secure and economically vibrant.
Rural Water Security: How Our Vision for Jaltol Has Progressed
WELL Labs is co-developing with its partners simple user-friendly tools, under the Jaltol framework, to help us diagnose the magnitude of water mismanagement and track our progress towards water security.
Beyond the Jargon: 10 Key Takeaways from World Water Week 2023
WELL Labs Executive Director, Dr. Veena Srinivasan, led sessions on water and agriculture at World Water Week 2023, an annual event on global water issues organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute. She sums up 10 key insights from this year’s event in this blog post.
Restoring Landscapes and Improving Farmer Income, the People-Centric Way
Farmers in Karnataka’s Raichur district face falling income and struggle to cultivate in degraded land. WELL Labs is working with Prarambha to document concerns, build trust and identify ways to improve farmer income and sustain the ecology of the region.
Can Playbooks Promote Green Rural Livelihoods? Insights from Conversations With CSOs
Under the Green Rural Livelihoods project, we are working with Rainmatter Foundation to create how-to guides and playbooks.
Data to Insights: WELL Labs Tool Sifts Through Crop Statistics and Finds Cropping Patterns Within
In this blog, we explain how to use the agricultural statistics tool we developed that makes it easy to read and interpret data and thus build a more complete picture of a landscape and its cropping patterns.
ಹಸಿರು ಎಲೆಗಳ ಗೊಬ್ಬರದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಸ್ಯ ವೈವಿಧ್ಯತೆ ಮತ್ತು ಪರಿಣಾಮಕಾರಿ ಬಳಕೆ
Published in Agriculture India
ಬರಡು ಮಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಜೀವ ಚೈತನ್ಯ ತುಂಬುವ ಸುಸ್ಥಿರ ಹಸಿರೆಲೆ ಗೊಬ್ಬರ
Published in Agriculture India
We Need More Agricultural R&D: Dr Ashok Gulati at WELL Labs Launch
Leading agricultural economist Dr. Ashok Gulati spoke about water use in agriculture and the need for innovative policies at the launch of WELL Labs, a new environmental research centre at IFMR.
Coconut Chips to Wild Honey: When Consumers Demand, Food Producers Supply
The goodie bag we put together as part of our launch event in New Delhi is filled with examples of future food consumption pathways that might provide win-wins for people and the planet
Explainer: How Green Manure Can Help Degraded Farmlands Sustain Themselves
The traditional agricultural practice of green leaves manure involves creating manure and fertiliser from natural, homegrown plants as sources of various nutrients for soil
How Are Farmers Likely to Respond to Solar Irrigation? Insights from Our Modelling Exercise Covering 6 Districts
To our knowledge, this is the first research study that has attempted to apply the agent-based modelling method in the context of solar irrigation and its likely impact on farmers’ incomes and groundwater sustainability in India.
A Visionary Architect and a New Growth Model: What’s Behind the Rise of Sponge Cities in China?
In Part 2 of this blog series, we delve into how one man’s vision and coupled with reforms by the Chinese government led to the nationwide adoption of nature-based solutions to manage floods.
People and Culture: Our Ways of Working and What We Are Looking for in WELL Labs Candidates
We spent time thinking about how we should function and what we should prioritise to hold ourselves to high standards of performance, professionalism, integrity and accountability.
Soak Up the Rain: How a ‘Sponge City’ Makes Urban Areas Climate Resilient
In Part 1 of this blog series, we introduce the concept of sponge cities and how this Nature-based Solution has become a popular flood mitigation strategy.
Climate Mitigation: Can Carbon Credits Ensure Farmers Don’t Pay The Price?
Published in India Development Review
Explained | What did India’s first national water-body census find?
Published in The Hindu