by WELL Labs Team | Feb 12, 2026 | Futures Research / Research
Building Community Expertise in Water Management: Insights From a Community Hydrology Programme in Raichur, Karnataka A woman sits next to a field irrigation channel in Raichur, Karntaka. Photo by Anupam Barman The Community Hydrology Programme seeks to build local...
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 / Blogs
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 / 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...
by Ishita Jalan, Chahat Bansal | Sep 20, 2023 | Technical Consulting / 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...
