by WELL Labs Team | Mar 20, 2024 | Rural Futures / Research
Raichur Roundtable: Equitable Water-Sharing for Sustainable Transitions in Agriculture Water for agriculture remains an indispensable, finite, and stressed resource for a majority of smallholder farmers engaged in agriculture as a primary source of livelihood. India’s...
by Veena Srinivasan | Feb 5, 2024 | Urban Water / Research
Exploring the use of data and models in transboundary water governance Photo: The River Indus, a transboundary river in South Asia, whose waters are shared by India and Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty, 1960. Credit: Imtiyaz Ali, Wikimedia Commons. CC-BY-SA-3.0...
by Zumbish | Aug 7, 2023 | Rural Futures / In the News
70-80% Indian farmers depend on groundwater; solar irrigation inadequate to change crop choices: Report Policies favouring growth of staple water-intensive cereal crops in different states have played major role in irrigation expansion India’s looming groundwater...
by Veena Srinivasan, Anjali Neelakantan | Jul 22, 2023 | Products, Platforms and Partnerships / Research
Farmer Responses to Solar Irrigation in India: Agent-Based Modelling to Understand Sustainable Transitions Solar irrigation is being promoted in India to address the twin problems of irrigation access and groundwater overexploitation. However, the potential impacts of...
by Manjunatha G, Sandeep Hanchanale, Veena Srinivasan | Oct 4, 2022 | Rural Futures / Op-eds
Is Agroecological Farming a Solution for Rainfed Degraded Land? As part of Mongabay India’s ‘Conserving Agro-biodiversity’ series, our experts look into Akkadi Saalu, a traditional intercropping system in Karnataka that encourages biodiversity on the farm. While the...
