Explore the golden beauty of Chhattisgarh’s harvest, where tradition meets modern science in the vibrant fields of India’s rice bowl.
A Better Tomorrow
Stories, Practices, and Solutions
To understand how Monsoon 2025 affected farmers, we surveyed 545 farmers across Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh in September.
Experts fear early monsoons in Maharashtra could disrupt the sowing and harvesting cycles. We spoke to farmers across Maharashtra to understand their losses, coping strategies, and expectations.
Madhya Pradesh, with over 72% rural population, relies heavily on groundwater, vital for agriculture and daily life. The 2022 Dynamic Groundwater Assessment shows a complex pattern of usage, recharge, and depletion, demanding urgent attention and action.
India experiences diverse rainfall patterns due to its agro-climatic and ecological variations. Maharashtra, in particular, faces challenges related to erratic and insufficient rainfall, leading to vulnerability in agriculture. The onset of the
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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.
Across India, disasters are no longer singular events but a polycrisis—where climate extremes, ecological degradation, water stress, and livelihood insecurity interact and amplify one another
When we mix weather,climate and climate change terms together, it can lead to confusion about what actually caused an event, who is responsible, and what actions are most effective
Explore WOTR’s 13-year journey across villages in Odisha, reaching over one lakh people through community-led watershed and livelihood interventions.
The Global South is being asked to shoulder the world’s nature and climate ambitions while global finance continues to move decisively in the opposite direction.
Read a collection blogs which brings together five stories from WOTR’s blog, shaped by the everyday lives, struggles, and choices of people in rural India. Told from the ground up, these pieces reflect moments of resilience, learning, and collective effort around water, livelihoods, and social change.
A water storage capacity of 2.5 million litres was created, bringing 64.25 acres of barren land back under cultivation while reducing soil erosion and improving groundwater recharge.