Centre for Social and Environmental Innovation

The second part of this blog series on the workshop focuses on the multiple factors related to lantana removal and ecological restoration.

Two-day consensus-building workshop aimed to tackle how we deal with the fast-spreading lantana and restore ecosystems.

As Q1 ends, here are the goals we have set for the year ahead.

Mapping and ground verification are important steps to link apartments and nearby green spaces.

CSEI is starting to work with farmers & NGOs in Raichur to map the problems and possible solutions around land degradation.

The fallow fields that dominate Aurangabad’s summer landscape were replaced by widespread cultivation this year.

Two more decisions that changed the course of our work in 2021–22.

Last year, we took the critical decision to discontinue an initiative.

Transformative change needs a distinct culture-funding-people model.

Jaltol will provide knowledge support for water security planning.

Here’s how CSEI is working towards achieving these goals: Zero Hunger, Clean Water, Climate Action, Life on Land & Partnerships.

CSEI and the Rainmatter Foundation are building a digital knowledge commons platform that has environmental data as well as analytical…

A workshop organised by P Srinivas (Soil Vasu), Rainmatter Foundation and facilitated by CSEI-ATREE aimed to drive consensus on soil…

The Farms and Forests Initiative is conducting a land-use change analysis in Karnataka’s Chikkaballapur district with LibTech & (FES)

With the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board, we are building a Grey to Green Movement to maintain urban spaces and reuse wastewater.

We created Jaltol, an open-source tool, to offer easy access to data to help understand, diagnose and intervene better.

Under protective irrigation, tankers are used to transport water from the local village tank to farms during critical dry spells.

Current artisanal models are not enough to remove lantana at scale. We need to identify additional supply chains.

Want to know more about how you can get involved with lake conservation in Bengaluru? Here are some organisations doing amazing work.

The authors spent a day at Akshayakalpa and saw the workings of the organic farm.

We need high-quality reviews of our work to ensure that what we are doing is backed by science.

Vibrant exchange of ideas at multi-stakeholder workshop on Bengaluru’s potential to reuse reclaimed water at scale.

An excerpt from our article published in Down to Earth about scaling lantana removal and our work with the Soliga community.

Update on the new map layer added to Jaltol v1.1