South Asia's groundwater economy stands at the threshold of a revolution in adoption of solar irrigation pumps (SIPs). This has potential to unlock the region's perverse energy-groundwater nexus. In much of South Asia, the price of energy used in irrigation, the only surrogate for water price, fa...
Shah, Tushaar
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Rajan, Abhishek
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Rai, Gyan Prakash
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Verma, Shilp
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Durga, Neha
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[Solar pumps and South Asia's energy-groundwater nexus: exploring implications and reimagining its future]
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Solar pumps and South Asia's energy-groundwater nexus: exploring implications and reimagining its future
Shah, M.
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Chowdhury, S.D.
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Shah, Tushaar
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[Pro-poor farm power policy for West Bengal – III: results of ITP’s Monoharpur experiment]
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Pro-poor farm power policy for West Bengal – III: results of ITP’s Monoharpur experiment
Since independence, India has emerged as the world’s largest groundwater economy, with annual groundwater use increasing from less than 50 BCM in the 1950s to over 230 BCM today. While this groundwater boom has been the bedrock of India’s agricultural growth, it has also created formidable challe...
With India emerging as the world’s largest groundwater irrigator, marginal farmers and tenants in many parts have come to depend on informal water markets for irrigation. Power subsidies have grown these markets and made them pro-poor, but are also responsible for groundwater depletion, and for f...
Shah, Tushaar
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Chowdhury, S.D.
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[Farm power policies and groundwater markets contrasting Gujarat with West Bengal (1990–2015)]
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Farm power policies and groundwater markets contrasting Gujarat with West Bengal (1990–2015)
Anand, the Gujarat town that gave India its dairy cooperative movement, has now spawned in Dhundi village the world’s fi rst solar cooperative that produces Solar Power as a Remunerative Crop. When compared to other models promoting solar irrigation in the country, the SPaRC model, which has succ...
Shah, Tushaar
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Durga, N.
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Rai, G.P.
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Verma, S.
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Rathod, R.
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[Promoting solar power as a remunerative crop]
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Promoting solar power as a remunerative crop