Discover how Pashu Sakhi members transform rural India through doorstep livestock care, stronger livelihoods, healthier animals, and resilient farming communities.
A Better Tomorrow
Stories, Practices, and Solutions
Exploring sustainable farming, social inequality, and policy failures, urging humility and community-led solutions in agriculture and development sector with Dr Divya Veluguri.
Explore WOTR’s 13-year journey across villages in Odisha, reaching over one lakh people through community-led watershed and livelihood interventions.
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.
32-year-old Menej Raito of Kumbhijal village in Odisha’s Rayagada district earn an income in his own village and does not need to migrate anymore.
Pashu Sakhi initiative empowers rural women as para-vets, improving livestock health, boosting incomes, and strengthening climate-resilient rural livelihoods.
A socio-technical watershed approach helped communities restore ecosystems, strengthen institutions and secure livelihoods, creating resilience that has endured for generations.
WOTR began mobilising farmers across Gajapati, Rayagada, and Ganjam in 2021, helping them form six Farmer Producer Companies (FPCs).
A woman farmer in Odisha rebuilds her livelihood through climate-resilient agriculture, soil health improvement, and collective market access support.
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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.
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