A systems approach to rural resilience integrating climate, water, agriculture, and community-led science for sustainable development through participatory research and dialogue.
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Exploring the growing importance of resilience in development, the piece highlights the need to look beyond activities and numbers to understand real impact. Garima Dutt emphasises on how meaningful measurement can help capture lasting change in people and communities
The gap between reported data and ground realities is often vast in the rural development sector. Sujata Tripathy writes why real-time data is important which highlights not just the numbers but also the qualitative aspects of development.
In our Must Watch – From the Archives collection, we revisit powerful films that chronicle 32 years of transformation. These stories capture the resilience of rural communities, the strength of collective action and the quiet yet lasting change that numbers alone can’t express.
How Karauli farmers stopped soil erosion using traditional Pagaras, community action, and climate-smart farming to restore land, livelihoods, and resilience
From dust-filled mines to life-giving ponds, Karauli’s communities revive water, farming, dignity, and hope through collective climate resilience efforts
Discover how Pashu Sakhi members transform rural India through doorstep livestock care, stronger livelihoods, healthier animals, and resilient farming communities.
Exploring sustainable farming, social inequality, and policy failures, urging humility and community-led solutions in agriculture and development sector with Dr Divya Veluguri.
Innovation once drove survival and growth. Now, amid climate stress and inequality, it must shift toward impact, resilience, and long-term sustainability.
WOTR’s Annual Report 2024-25, Roots & Resilience, highlights rural resilience through science, technology, and tradition.
A systems approach to rural resilience integrating climate, water, agriculture, and community-led science for sustainable development through participatory research and dialogue.
Exploring the growing importance of resilience in development, the piece highlights the need to look beyond activities and numbers to understand real impact. Garima Dutt emphasises on how meaningful measurement can help capture lasting change in people and communities
The gap between reported data and ground realities is often vast in the rural development sector. Sujata Tripathy writes why real-time data is important which highlights not just the numbers but also the qualitative aspects of development.
In our Must Watch – From the Archives collection, we revisit powerful films that chronicle 32 years of transformation. These stories capture the resilience of rural communities, the strength of collective action and the quiet yet lasting change that numbers alone can’t express.
How Karauli farmers stopped soil erosion using traditional Pagaras, community action, and climate-smart farming to restore land, livelihoods, and resilience
From dust-filled mines to life-giving ponds, Karauli’s communities revive water, farming, dignity, and hope through collective climate resilience efforts
Discover how Pashu Sakhi members transform rural India through doorstep livestock care, stronger livelihoods, healthier animals, and resilient farming communities.
Exploring sustainable farming, social inequality, and policy failures, urging humility and community-led solutions in agriculture and development sector with Dr Divya Veluguri.
Innovation once drove survival and growth. Now, amid climate stress and inequality, it must shift toward impact, resilience, and long-term sustainability.
WOTR’s Annual Report 2024-25, Roots & Resilience, highlights rural resilience through science, technology, and tradition.
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Community well improves water access in Samlai, reducing hardship for women, supporting farming livelihoods, and bringing dignity, convenience, and renewed hope
A glimpse of the latest harvest season from Rajasthan, featuring freshly harvest wheat, mustard, and more from villages of Baran, Dungarpur etc.
The Village Development Committee in Kodgar, Chhattisgarh, empowers villagers through collective leadership, sustainable farming, water conservation, and livelihood initiatives driving inclusive rural development.
In Govindpur, Chhattisgarh, a Custom Hiring Centre is making access to costly farm machinery easier for small and marginal farmers by making these machines available within villages on a rental basis
Mahila Sansadhan Kendra empowers women farmers in Maharashtra by strengthening participation, leadership, and decision-making within Farmer Producer Companies and agriculture.
Watershed development empowers rural communities through participatory planning, capacity building, climate resilience, water conservation, and sustainable livelihood transformation.
In the rain-fed villages of Maharashtra, people are finding new ways to understand their land and groundwater — not with satellites or dashboards, but with cardboard, shared knowledge, and a fresh look at the soil beneath their feet.
Climate-resilient crop varieties are helping farmers in Telangana improve yields and adopt more sustainable farming practices. These innovations highlight how science and sustainable practices can strengthen agricultural resilience and food security.