Tushaar Shah, Omvir Singh, Aditi Mukherji
Camelia Dewan, Aditi Mukherji, Marie-Charlotte Buisson
This article examines the historical evolution of participatory water management in coastal Bangladesh. Three major shifts are identified: first, from indigenous local systems managed by landlords to centralized government agencies in the 1960s; second, from top-down engineering solutions to small-s...
Camelia Dewan, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Aditi Mukherji
Community-based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) has been promoted as part of the development discourse on sustainable natural resources management since the mid-1980s. It has influenced recent water policy in Bangladesh through the Guidelines for Participatory Water Management (GPWM) where comm...
Mercedes Bustamante, Joyashree Roy, Daniel Ospina, Ploy Achakulwisut et al.
Abstract Non-technical summary We identify a set of essential recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, across natural and social sciences: (1) looming inevitability and implications of overshooting the 1.5°C warming limit, (2) urgent need for a rapid and managed fossil ...
Nari Senanayake, Aditi Mukherji
Maria A. Martin, Emmanuel Amoah Boakye, Emily Boyd, Wendy Broadgate et al.
Non-technical summary We summarize what we assess as the past year's most important findings within climate change research: limits to adaptation, vulnerability hotspots, new threats coming from the climate–health nexus, climate (im)mobility and security, sustainable practices for land use and finan...
Aditi Mukherji, Debanjan Chowdhury, RachelleH.B. Fishman, Nabina Lamichhane et al.
Solar powered irrigation pumps (SPIPs) are a proven technology, and can potentially be a game changer in \nNepal’s irrigation sector by providing clean irrigation to millions of farmers. However, the relatively high capital \ncost of SPIPs is the main impediment that prevents large scale ado...
Ramesh Ananda Vaidya, Niru Yadav, Nirjan Rai, Saumitra Neupane et al.
The acute shortage of electric power in South Asia has severely hampered regional economic growth. Cross-border electricity trade – supported by appropriate policies, institutions and grid interconnections – can be a powerful tool for improving people’s livelihoods in its Bangladesh–Bhutan–India–Nep...
Archisman Mitra, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Abdullah Zahid Osmani, Aditi Mukherji
Abstract The transition to solar-powered irrigation in South Asia offers an opportunity to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce dependency on expensive diesel. However, appropriate institutional and financial models are required to scale up this technology. Three different solar irrigation pump (...
Manohara Khadka, Labisha Uprety, Gitta Shrestha, Shristi Shakya et al.
Solar irrigation pumps (SIPs) are emerging as a popular technology to address water, energy, and climate change challenges in South Asia while enhancing livelihoods and food security. SIPs are deemed to be a women-friendly renewable energy technology (RET) due to their design, operating system, and ...
Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Archisman Mitra, Thierry Hounsa, Ahasan Habib et al.
Solar irrigation pumps (SIPs) are gradually replacing diesel pumps in relatively water-intensive agricultural production systems and geographies to reduce carbon emissions from food systems. However, beyond its climate change mitigation potential and fulfillment of Nationally Determined Contribution...
M.-C. Buisson, A. Mitra, Abdullah Zahid Osmani, A. Habib et al.
About IWMI: The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is an international, research-fordevelopment organization that works with governments, civil society, and the private sector to solve water problems in developing countries and scale up solutions.Through the partnership, IWMI combines r...
Aditi Mukherji, Tushaar Shah
Besides India, there are a few other countries like Mexico, Spain, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China which also make intensive use of groundwater. This highlight reviews groundwater institutions and policies in these countries, with a special focus on the interlinkages between energy and groundwater. I...
Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Arijit Das, Aditi Mukherji
Regular supply of maintenance fund for water infrastructures in costal Bangladesh is a necessary condition for the existence of river embankments. This article reviews a number of efforts to identify rules and conditions helping the regular supply of maintenance fund. A number of studies have used e...
Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Archisman Mitra, Thierry Hounsa, Md. Ahasan Habib et al.