Land-to-water-to-atmosphere connections—the perennial circulatory flows that birth and nourish life—are out of balance and Venkata Rao knows it. The 37-year-old tenant farmer from the village of Penakalametta in West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh is sensitive to these flows, for his life is entwined with it.The area where he has his farm is called uplands, a stretch of approximately 4,000 acres, suitable for crops like tomato, bryonia, cluster beans, plantains, black gram, corn, tobacco