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 Lakshmikantha NR, Veena Srinivasan | Mar 6, 2025 | Technical Consulting / Research
Hits and Misses: Water-based Climate Adaptation Interventions for Agriculture Photo: A borewell connected to a local piped irrigation network in Kadiri, Andhra Pradesh. Credit: Nabina Chakraborty Climate change adaptations based on water in agriculture can work well,...
by Arjuna Srinidhi | Feb 19, 2025 | Futures Research / Research
Climate Resilient Development Pathways for Farmer Producer Organisations in Semi-arid India The Central Processing Unit and Campus of Sahyadri Farms, an FPO, at Mohadi, Nashik, Maharashtra. Credit: sahyadrifarms.in Arjuna Srinidhi et al. explore strategies for...
by Veena Srinivasan, Anjali Neelakantan | Jul 22, 2023 | 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 | 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...
