A Better Tomorrow

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Sharing Ground Realities: WOTR’s Case Study Featured in Stories of Resilience 2025

Nov, 2025
Climate Change Adaptation, Sustainable Development

Drawing from work with smallholder farmers—from Kumbharwadi in Maharashtra to Madaul in Odisha—WOTR has contributed key experiences, insights, and evidence to the Stories of Resilience 2025, a publication launched by the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Belém, Brazil.

Running On Empty

Nov, 2025
Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation

UNEP highlights the growing divide between climate impacts and adaptation finance.

Partners in Progress: WOTR and Hindustan Unilever Foundation’s Holistic Approach to Strengthening Tribal Livelihoods

Nov, 2025
Climate Change Adaptation, Partnerships

The project focuses on improving irrigation facilities and promoting alternate livelihood opportunities, enhancing income stability and building climate resilience in the region.

Connecting the Dots: Why Ecological Connectivity is Central to Land Restoration and Resilience

Oct, 2025
Climate Change Adaptation, Land Management

At this year’s IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi, a new global report was released that carries an important message for our planet: to restore the land, we must first reconnect it.

Film | Restoring Balance with Nature: Rayagada’s Story of Change

Sep, 2025
Climate Change Adaptation, Rural Development

With support from Bread for the World, WOTR is helping the community in Odisha chart its own path to development.

Building Futures: How Tribal Communities in Jharkhand Are Driving Sustainable Change

Sep, 2025
Climate Change Adaptation, Sustainable Development

WOTR has helped build lasting water conservation structures, strengthened local governance, and empowered communities in 70 villages to manage their natural resources more sustainably.

Collaborative Processes for Climate Action in Maharashtra

Aug, 2025
Climate Change Adaptation, Rural Development

Through the India Climate Collaborative’s grant to WOTR, the two organisations set out with a shared ambition: to support the Government of Maharashtra in strengthening its climate adaptation planning and delivery.

The Earth Listens to Her: Rural Women And The Spirit Of Environmental Conservation

Jun, 2025
Climate Change Adaptation, Women Empowerment

The environmental work of rural women is a vital form of leadership that deserves recognition in policy, planning, and global climate discussions.

Heat, crops and food security: Climate-resilient crops mark the way forward

May, 2025
Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Resilient Agriculture

As the heat in India increases, the rising temperature is also affecting the food security of the country. India is focusing on climate-resilient agriculture by developing climate-resilient crop varieties, designed to cope with unpredictable weather and boost farm productivity.

Seeds Of Change: How Rayagada’s Tribal Communities Are Rebuilding Their Future

May, 2025
Climate Change Adaptation, Integrated Watershed Development

Since its initiation in 2021, this project has benefited 900 families in Bhimpur, predominantly from tribal communities.

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Leopard Sightings : How Cities Redraw Wildlife Boundaries

Jan, 2026
Biodiversity, Ecosystem-based Adaptation

Leopards in Pune reveal how cities reshape wildlife boundaries, forcing us to rethink coexistence beyond romance, fear, and reactive conservation.

This Village΄s Walk for Water is Over

Jan, 2026
Participatory Approach, Water Management

Women of this village in Odisha walked eight kilometers daily for drinking water until the solar-powered borewell transformed lives.

Why Environmental Stewardship is the New Core of Social Responsibility

Jan, 2026
CSR, Environmental Stewardship

India’s Supreme Court reimagines corporate responsibility, weaving environmental stewardship, biodiversity protection, and sustainable development into the heart of business ethics.

Building Resilience in South Odisha: How Farmer Producer Companies Are Transforming Tribal Livelihoods

Dec, 2025
Farmer Producer Organisations, Rural Development

WOTR began mobilising farmers across Gajapati, Rayagada, and Ganjam in 2021, helping them form six Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs).

India’s Missing Farm Roads

Dec, 2025
Infrastructure, Rural Connectivity

Exploring India’s farm roads, revealing how poor rural connectivity undermines productivity, mechanisation, incomes, and migration decisions nationwide.

Looking Back at 2025

Dec, 2025
About, WOTR

Reflecting on 2025, this blog captures how communities and WOTR strengthened water security, livelihoods, ecosystems, and climate resilience together.

The Great Green Disconnect: Why Acing the Test Isn’t Saving the Planet

Dec, 2025
Climate Change, Ecosystem

Environmental awareness has never been higher, yet climate-damaging behaviour continues unchecked. This blog examines the growing green disconnect.

Toiling Alone No More

Dec, 2025
Climate Resilient Agriculture, Rural Development

A woman farmer in Odisha rebuilds her livelihood through climate-resilient agriculture, soil health improvement, and collective market access support.