Warm Data Story of the Week: What happens when India runs out of groundwater?

"Cold" Data is not enough to understand the complexity involved in grappling with the push-pulls of food security AND sustainability.

Let this picture be the perfect palliative for the bleak picture of groundwater depletion that awaits us.

Hi Friends,

I want to introduce a new section for subscribers. I call it Warm Data Story of the Week.

Orientation: My name is Venky, I write Agribusiness matters to explore wicked questions pertaining to agriculture and our future that go beyond moralizing answers of the technological kind. Feel free to dig around the archives, if you want to get a flavor of my previous agribusiness writings.

In order to explore wicked questions pertaining to agriculture, we need warm data. For several decades in the world of research, we’ve been accustomed to studying data without context (because it is convenient), and now historically, we are at an inflection point where we can no longer afford to do that.

If you have been studying the emerging world of ergodocity economics, you might better appreciate what I am talking about 

This warm data story comes from a fascinating research paper I stumbled …