Author: Abha Indurkar, Arjuna Srinidhi, Dr. Marcella D’Souza, Eshwer Kale, Larissa Stiem-Bhatia, Shreya Banerjee
Adapting to Climate Change and reducing the risk of disasters have never been more pertinent than today. Under these challenging times, the WOTR Centre for Resilience Studies brings to you…
Tag: Climate Change Adaptation Ecosystems Maharashtra Research for action
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This case study ‘From migration to livelihoods security and self-reliance through watershed development’ describes how the watershed development intervention has led to increased ownership and collective action among community members to…
Tag: Agriculture Agromet Livelihoods Maharashtra Migration Sangamner Satechiwadi Watershed Development
Read MoreAuthor: Renie Thomas, Vijay Duraisamy
Groundwater, a renewable and finite natural resource, is a vital source of sustenance for humans and different ecosystems in the semi-arid regions. Rapid population growth in the last three decades…
Tag: Ahmednagar Groundwater mapping Maharashtra
Read MoreAuthor: Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
WOTR has implemented the Pro-Soil project funded by GIZ in 8 villages of Bhokardan block of Jalna district in Maharashtra. The primary aim of the project is to promote sustainable…
Tag: Agriculture Bhokardan Crop Calendar Jalna Maharashtra Soybean Wheat
Read MoreAuthor: Atul Pagar
This article emphasizes the need to recharge groundwater and conserve precious groundwater resources, in times of drought.
Tag: Agriculture Groundwater Maharashtra Water Water security
Read MoreAuthor: Abhijeet Kavthekar, Eshwer Kale, Ganesh Rajapure, Janardhan Pawar
Please read our response to ‘an article on Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan (JSA)’ is published in the ‘Economic and Political Weekly/ issue (Vol. 54, Issue No. 29, 20 Jul, 2019) at…
Tag: Drought Maharashtra Watershed Development
Read MoreAuthor: Arjuna Srinidhi, Divya Nazareth
Plasticulture is the application of plastics in agricultural cultivation and is fast becoming the most sought-after technique to augment farm yields and farm income. But, there is also a flip…
Tag: Agriculture Maharashtra Plastic Pollution
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When the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP) was initiated in 1989 and operationalized in 1992, the overall goal of the programme was poverty reduction through people-managed environmental regeneration and resource mobilization along watershed lines.
Tag: Agriculture Maharashtra Water Watershed Development
Read MoreAuthor: Koichi Fujita, Yogesh Shinde
India has a vast arid and semi-arid rain-fed area, mainly on the western side of the country. Such areas are characterized by erratic, deficient, and delayed rainfall and hence, have…
Tag: Agriculture Bhojdari Maharashtra Participatory Watershed Development Rural economy Sangamner
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