by Ashima Chaudhary | Dec 3, 2025 | Rural Futures / Blogs
When Good Farming Ideas Fail to Last A wide range of improved agronomic practices – like System of Root Intensification (SRI), Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), green manuring, and mulching – have been tested and promoted across the country in the past two decades....
by Dan Ross | Oct 23, 2025 | Rural Futures / In the News
The World Is Running Out of Fresh Water. What Happens If We Do? Veena Srinivasan unpacks India’s groundwater problem, and its implication on agriculture. “In some of our work we’ve found these villages are going into electricity debt just in order to be able to...
by Venkatesh Kannaiah | Sep 21, 2025 | Rural Futures / In the News
Tech is important, but trust is key when working with rural communities: Veena Srinivasan, Founder, WELL Labs Veena Srinivasan is the founder and executive director of WELL (Water, Environment, Land and Livelihoods) Labs, a research and innovation centre transforming...
by WELL Labs Team | Sep 9, 2025 | Rural Futures / Blogs
Promoting Equitable Irrigation, Market Access, Agricultural Innovation, and More | Insights from the Rural Futures Programme This blog is excerpted from WELL Labs’ Annual Report 2024–2025. You can read the report here. The Rural Futures programme has been...
by Syamkrishnan P. Aryan, Mallika Sardeshpande, Manjunatha G | Sep 5, 2024 | Rural Futures / Research
Policy Brief: Augmenting Farmer Income With On-farm Carbon and Water Trade-offs Agroecological practices such as crop diversification (intercropping, crop rotation, agroforestry, etc.) and livestock integration offer ecological benefits such as carbon and water...
