Stories from the ground from Commons Connect usage
Can data-driven planning lead to a participatory and accountable approach to natural resource governance? Reflections from Ajmal, SUPPORT (Jharkhand) Hear…
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Ecological restoration toolkit: Bioacoustics Analysis pipelines
Connected to our work on continuous ecological monitoring, we set up bioacoustics recorders at four sites in Delhi to continuously…
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A Bottom-Up Approach to Identifying Ecological Restoration Sites with the CoRE Stack Toolkit
Authors: Apoorva Dewan, Ojasvi Bansal, Raman Kumar, and Aaditeshwar Seth Ecological restoration is a complex process that requires a deep…
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Early Lessons from Commons Connect Pilots
Published: July 2025 How can digital tools strengthen local planning and ensure that the voices of rural communities shape their…
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Revealing Inequities in MGNREGA: What Data and Field Insights Tell Us
The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), enacted in 2005, was designed as a powerful tool to ensure…
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CoRE Stack: Updates – September 2024 to April 2025
In a world where climate change and environmental degradation are becoming increasingly urgent, digital technologies are stepping up to provide…
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Explore Social-Ecological Insights with the Know Your Landscape Dashboard
We’re excited to introduce the updated Know Your Landscape (KYL) dashboard! This powerful tool helps you dive deep into the…
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Scalable Monitoring of Tree Canopy Density and Height in India at High Spatial Resolutions
Forests and plantations are the backbone of our planet’s ecological balance, offering habitats, absorbing carbon dioxide, regulating climate, and sustaining…
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Assessing the impact of farm ponds on agricultural productivity in Northern India
Assessing the impact of farm ponds on agricultural productivity in Northern India Introduction Government welfare schemes such as the Mahatma…
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Initial Experiments with a Scalable Machine Learning Based Approach for Downscaling the MOD16A2 Evapotranspiration Product
Objective Over the years, the amount of cropping and by extension the water used for cropping has intensified greatly. The…
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Notes from the CoRE stack Research to Impact Collaborative held on July 8th 2024
ACM COMPASS is an international conference focused on the application of computing technologies for sustainability. COMPASS 2024 was held in…
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Know Your Landscape (KYL) Enhancements: Strengthening Landscape Intelligence for Better Planning
Know Your Landscape (KYL) Enhancements: Strengthening Landscape Intelligence for Better Planning September 2026 Natural Resource Management (NRM) planning increasingly requires…
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Mission Antyodaya 2020 Data now on KYL
What 6 Lakh Indian Villages Tell Us About Rural Development Amit Kumar, CoRE Stack; Ananya Singh, IIT Delhi Research supervision:…
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Front page coverage in Dainik Bhaskar!
We are excited that the use of Commons Connect by PRADAN in Jharkhand was covered on the front page of…
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Mapping Soil Health Across India at 30 m Resolution Using Machine Learning
Author: Ratinder Pal Singh, MTech student, IIT Delhi Soil health is central to sustainable agriculture, fertilizer planning, and long-term crop…
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On highways and backroads of AI, and Perspectives on Commons Connect
After the earlier excellent blog by Anuradha Ganapathy where she introduced the pithy statement of more participation and less AI…
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CoRE Insights: From Landscape Data to Explainable Diagnosis Using a Neurosymbolic Approach
Authors: Aaditeshwar Seth, Shivani A. Mehta, Riti Verma, Immanuel Shadrach (IIT Delhi), with Cursor Composer Fast and Claude SonnetProject: CoRE…
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Towards Effective and Equitable Natural Resource Management: Field Stories on Commons Connect
Across rural India, communities depend on common lands, water resources, forests, and grazing areas for their livelihoods. Community representatives, also…
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Knowledge playlist: Water structures
Constructing a Continuous Contour Trench सतत समोच्च खाई का निर्माण Constructing a Water Absorption Trench जल अवशोषण खाई का निर्माण…
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Knowledge playlist: Watershed development
Water Security Agenda in the Age of Climate Change जलवायु परिवर्तन के युग में जल सुरक्षा एजेंडा Introduction to Watershed…
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Why the commons need community-led data
Aanchal Bansal Gandhi and Shreya Adhikari from IDR have written a fantastic article about the use of data in commons…
