From Struggle to Sustainability: How Latur Farmers Transformed Agriculture and Their Livelihoods in Maharashtra

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Fund
cg.contributor.initiativeMixed Farming Systems
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2INen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.subregionMaharashtra
cg.creator.identifierKaushal Garg: 0000-0002-0570-9129
cg.creator.identifierSoumitra Pramanik: 0000-0002-1372-9154
cg.creator.identifierAnantha kanugod H: 0000-0003-3481-681X
cg.creator.identifierIsrar Majeed: 0009-0004-4715-3714
cg.creator.identifierVenkata Radha Akuraju: 0000-0002-7022-8444
cg.creator.identifierRamesh Singh: 0009-0008-5893-7003
cg.creator.identifierShalander Kumar: 0000-0001-8072-5674
cg.creator.identifierML JAT: 0000-0003-0582-1126
cg.howPublishedFormally Published
cg.link.photohttps://www.icrisat.org/storage/file-managers/file-67ac3edfd742a9.98337781.jpg
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformation
cg.subject.impactAreaEnvironmental health and biodiversity
cg.subject.impactPlatformEnvironmental Health and Biodiversity
dc.contributor.authorGarg, Kaushal K.
dc.contributor.authorMajeed, Israr
dc.contributor.authorAnantha, Kanugod H.
dc.contributor.authorVenkataradha, A.
dc.contributor.authorPramanik, Soumitra
dc.contributor.authorKhuswaha, Dharmendra
dc.contributor.authorShinde, Amit
dc.contributor.authorSingh, Ramesh
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Shalander
dc.contributor.authorJat, Mangi L.
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-13T17:13:57Z
dc.date.available2025-02-13T17:13:57Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/173034
dc.titleFrom Struggle to Sustainability: How Latur Farmers Transformed Agriculture and Their Livelihoods in Maharashtra
dcterms.abstractLatur district in Maharashtra has long faced critical agricultural challenges, including erratic rainfall, groundwater depletion, acute water shortage and soil degradation. With fragmented landholdings averaging 1–2 hectares, smallholder farmers struggled to sustain agricultural productivity and profitability. Recognizing these challenges, the Groundwater Survey and Development Agency (GSDA), in collaboration with ICRISAT, launched a transformative initiative under the Atal Bhujal Yojana (2023–2025) supported by CGIAR Initiative on Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems. About 440 farm households were involved in this initiative. To design effective interventions, a comprehensive multidimensional analysis was conducted, evaluating the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of farming systems using ICRISAT’s MSAT framework. Additionally, a Land Resource Inventory (LRI) assessment was undertaken to assess soil characteristics and land use potential, while a hydrological assessment helped identify water availability, recharge potential, and vulnerabilities. These assessments provided a strong foundation for planning targeted resource conservation and use while designing holistic solutions from farm to landscape scale for sustainable agricultural improvements. Based on these assessments and a participatory community-led approach, key entry points were identified at both the landscape scale and farming systems scale, along with market linkages to enhance sustainability.
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceDevelopment Practitioners
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGarg, Kaushal K.; Majeed, Israr; Anantha, kanugod H.; Venkataradha, A.; Pramanik, Soumitra; Khuswaha, Dharmendra; Shinde, Amit; Singh, Ramesh; Kumar, Shalander; Jat, Mangi L. 2024. From Struggle to Sustainability: How Latur Farmers Transformed Agriculture and Their Livelihoods in Maharashtra. Hyderabad, India: ICRISAT
dcterms.issued2024-12-30
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0
dcterms.publisherInternational Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
dcterms.subjectinnovation adoption
dcterms.subjectgroundwater
dcterms.subjectsmallholders
dcterms.subjectsustainable agriculture
dcterms.subjectfarming systems
dcterms.typeCase Study

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