This section includes articles written by WOTR and by external agencies on WOTR’s work. Some of the renowned national and international publications that have featured our work are National Geographic, EPW, Terra Green, Forbes, LEISA, Agrowon and Vanrai to name a few.
From water to agriculture, well-being and beyond
In this special feature published in the India Water Portal, WOTR’s Arjuna Srinidhi (Senior Researcher, Climate policy), Marcella D’Souza (Director, WOTR Centre for Resilience Studies) and Crispino Lobo (Managing Trustee)…
Water stewardship in rainfed agrarian Maharashtra
The article ‘Water stewardship in rainfed agrarian Maharashtra’ written by Eshwer Kale and Marcella D’Souza was published in the compendium ‘Water Conservation and Saving in Agriculture: Initiatives, Achievements and Challenges…
Self-sufficiency assured: for survival in the village
This article ‘Schwerpunkt: Selbstständigkeit sichern – und das Überleben in der Heimat’ published in the German Magazine by Elvira Greiner of Andheri Hilfe, describes the change she has witnessed in…
Enabling Gendered Environment for Watershed Management
Women’s participation is widely recognised in watershed programmes: however, it is not addressed beyond activities like SHG formation and conventional credit and savings. WOTR evolved a new approach for watershed…
IGDSS – Applied Technology at the Grassroots Using Satellite imagery and Mobile GPS at village level for on-site plot level Crop-Mapping
The objective of the study is to develop a methodology aimed at obtaining season wise plot level crop data using High-resolution satellite image and mobile GPS. And also to arrive…
Crop Planning For Food and Nutrition Security Using GIS and Mobile GPS Technology – A Case Study of Ghoti Village in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra
Ghoti village of Ahmednagar district, agro-climatically falls in transition zone and agriculture is rainfed. This region has experienced erratic climatic events like rainfall, coldwave and dryspells frequently which damaged crops.…
Agro-Met Services and Farmer Responsiveness to Advisories: Implications for Climate Smart Agriculture
This chapter in ‘Handbook of Climate Change Resilience’ aims to understand the nature and importance of different components of WOTR advisory system and the response of farmers to the agro-met…
From Vulnerability Assessments to Low/No Regret Resilience Planning in Rural Contexts
This chapter draws on lessons learnt from natural resources management projects in three Indian states – which includes designing projects, making mid-course modifications, and conducting project evaluations. It provides guidelines…
Managing the Increasing Heat Stress in Rural Areas
The present study examines the vulnerability of rural communities to heat stress in the semiarid villages in the Maharashtra state of India. The study was conducted in five villages of…