by Shreenivas Dharmaraja | Aug 21, 2025 | Futures Research Blogs
From Science to Strategy: A Community Approach to Hydrology Photo credit: Shreenivas Dharmaraja The way a farmer experiences and interacts with water in Karnataka’s Raichur district depends on where they live. A farmer near a water source, be it a river, canal, or...
by Navitha Varsha, Nabina Chakraborty | May 23, 2025 | Rural Futures Press & Media
Raichur at the Crossroads: Gender-Sensitive Strategies for Sustainable Rural Labour Radhamma and Anuradha picking chillies. Photos: Nabina Chakraborty The sun beats down on Radhamma’s back as she moves through the rows of chilli plants, swiftly plucking the ripe, red...
by Syamkrishnan P. Aryan, Ashima Chaudhary | Sep 3, 2024 | Rural Futures Press & Media
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...
by Ishita Jalan, Chahat Bansal | Sep 20, 2023 | Products and Platforms Blogs
How Often are India’s Farming Patterns Changing? With IIT Delhi, We Turn to New Land Use Maps for Answers This blog was co-written with Chahat Bansal, PhD scholar at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. She is one of the authors of the published paper on...
by Manjunatha G | Jun 19, 2023 | Rural Futures Blogs
Explainer: How Green Manure Can Help Degraded Farmlands Sustain Themselves A rotavator crushes a row of plants to create manure. Photo by Revanna Siddappa, Prarambha Soil fertility, i.e. the soil’s ability to support plant growth and optimise yield, depends on myriad...
