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...
Archisman Mitra, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Ram C. Bastakoti
Canal siltation is a pervasive problem in coastal Bangladesh causing water-logging and losses in crop yield. Although timely maintenance of canals through regular contributions from the community can solve this problem; it often breaks down because of the free riding issue, a common feature in the p...
Debapriya Maitra, Bedaprana Roy, Bikram Dhara, Archisman Chakraborti et al.
Concerns about the unintended consequences of using pesticides in agricultural settings have led to a shift in practise towards more environmentally friendly methods such as composting, manuring and using plant growth-promoting bacteria. While compost is known for its ability to promote plant growth...
Mohammad Faiz Alam, Archisman Mitra, Smaranika Mahapatra, Paul Pavelic et al.
Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Archisman Mitra, Thierry Hounsa, Md. Ahasan Habib et al.
Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Archisman Mitra, Nandish Kenia
The Ganges project on ‘Water Governance and Community-Based Management’ conducted a series of household and water management organization surveys in its coastal Bangladesh study sites. This report presents the methodology and describes the results from the survey. The report can be read as a quantit...