by Lokappa Nayak, Ganesh Masnur | Jun 4, 2026 | Rural Futures / Blogs
Green Manuring: A Sustainable Agricultural Practice to Improve Crop Productivity Comparison of a green-manured cotton plot (left) and a control plot (right). The green manured plot looks a little denser and taller, while the control plot looks slightly shorter and...
by Divyashree K | Mar 18, 2026 | Rural Futures / Op-eds
Unpaid, Unseen, Unending: The Workdays of Rural Women A woman manually harvesting rice with a sickle. Women work almost continuously, with no clear breaks; only transitions between different kinds of paid and unpaid labour. | Image by Nanditha Gogate When people speak...
by WELL Labs Team | Dec 15, 2025 | Futures Research / Research
Raichur 2047: Imagining Flourishing Futures Photo by Nanditha Gogate The Raichur Visioning workshop invited residents and diverse, local stakeholders of Raichur to imagine the future of the city in 2047, the centenary year of India’s independence. The participants...
by Lokappa Nayak, Navitha Varsha | Nov 11, 2025 | Rural Futures / Blogs
From Fields of Struggle to Hubs of Innovation: Farmers, Mechanisation, and the Promise of Local Enterprise A dusty sunrise paints the sky over Devadurga, Raichur, warming up the fields below. Lakshmi tightens her sari, picks up her sickle, and steps into the cotton...
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,...
