Climate Resource Center-Bidar | 2021-ongoing

Documentation of Agri-Cultural Practices around Maḷe-Nakshatras of the monsoon period (Mriga to Vishakha). The Hindu Calendar / Gregorian Calendar in the Panchanga Wheel is for the year 2021.

Together, we have worked to integrate heritage conservation with climate resilience through projects such as the Climate Resource Center. Climate Resource Centre (CRC) is a socio-technical platform for farmers, their families and allies, where experiences, practices and responses within agricultural practices are documented, disseminated and developed through local collaborative action research. CRC will centre local knowledge, experiences, and priorities to shape how the effects of climate change in the Dakkhani region and South Canara are understood and responded to - it will seek to inform climate adaptation, outreach and action at the hyper-local scale.

To do this our approach is to ‘infrastructuring’ a platform where everyday knowledge and intimate politics can be shared, actioned and interpreted. To wilfully move beyond the current imaginations of such programmes that typically focus on monitoring, maintenance and action toward ecosystems. CRC platform will seek to enable the undertaking of co-owned action in multiple micro-contexts and geographies. This is also important as we need to envision new ways of exchanging knowledge situated in cultural histories and lived experiences. The assumptions for the exchange of diverse knowledge practices embedded in a place have to be rediscovered and reinvented. It is an important step in decolonising research practices around Climate Change. As this effort moves forward, the ideas of “development” will be reimagined for farming communities.
Key Actions
a. Observatory: Mapping seasonal water availability, water levels, and monitoring
b. Community led maintenance: Organizing collective maintenance activities
c. Restoration: Reviving and also mentioning all the techniques
d. Advocacy: Water conservation and its linkage with health, migration, changing crops, etc. Mapping various adaptation strategies. Local water councils having a say with CRC as an infra and also engaging these through media and public dialogue.

List of Configurations

SNo	Configuration / Project	Living Labs Nodal Centre	Year	Living Lab Concentration	Micro-context	Collaborators	Grant
1	Climate Adaptation: Everyday Living as Knowledge Production	Bidar	2021	Sensitive Ecologies	Agrarian Practices, Water Systems & Grassland Ecosystem	Aruvu Collaboratory, Krishi Vignyana Kendra, Farmers	Azim Premji University
2	Climate Outreach: Co-Learning Networks	Bidar	2022	Community Wellbeing	Agrarian Practices, Water Systems & Grassland Ecosystem	Aruvu Collaboratory, Krishi Vignyana Kendra, Farmers	Azim Premji University
3	Climate Action: Climate Resource Centre as Platform for Community Efforts	Bidar	2022	Reimagining Technology	Agrarian Practices, Water Systems & Grassland Ecosystem	Aruvu Collaboratory, Farmers and Pastoral Communities	Azim Premji University
4	Karez as a learning hub	Bidar	2021	Community Wellbeing	Karez	Aruvu Collaboratory	Aruvu Collaboratory
5	Rapid Assessment of Naubad Karez	Bidar	2024	Sensitive Ecologies	Karez	Aruvu Collaboratory	Aruvu Collaboratory
6	Mapping, restoration and revival of water systems in Bidar	Bidar	2024	Sensitive Ecologies	Water Systems	Aruvu Collaboratory	Aruvu Collaboratory