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Climate-Smart Agricultural Assets and Household Coping Strategies in Times of Upheaval

  Kashi Kafle, Marie-Charlotte Buisson Climate-Smart Agricultural Assets and Household Coping Strategies in Times of Upheaval Published  February 2026 • © 2025 The Author(s). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rode.70115    View/Download View at onlinelibrary.wiley.com Abstract Transferring agricultural assets can be welfare-improving for smallholders. Can agricultural assets also improve smallholders’ ability to cope with unprecedented…

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Promoting sustainable agriculture through feed-in tariff policy in Pakistan: Solar irrigation pumping for enhanced crop diversification

Access full document Abstract  This project brief highlights sustainable irrigation methods along with the potential benefits of promoting solar-powered irrigation systems in Punjab, Pakistan. To promote the broad adoption of ecologically sustainable farming methods, the brief stresses the need to create a legislative framework that gives suitable incentives to farmers…

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Transitioning to a volumetric tariff system to make solar irrigation pumps financially viable

MinErgy uses SoLAR Innovation Fund to build community distribution tanks as a step towards a volumetric tariff system and equitable water distribution for community-governed solar irrigation projects.   Solar irrigation has been gaining popularity in Nepal thanks to the government’s subsidies for individually-owned solar irrigation pumps (SIPs). But the economic…

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Solar Irrigation in South Asia: Emerging evidence of impacts on mitigation, adaptation, equity and groundwater

By Dr Aditi Mukherji Alleviating poverty with minimal carbon emission is at the heart of climate-resilient development. This need is particularly acute in South Asia, where the continuing expansion of irrigation holds the promise of pulling smallholders out of poverty but will also result in significant increases in carbon emissions…

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