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Solar Irrigation Pumps, Women and Smallholders in Eastern Tarai

Published On: March 21, 2022 11:05 AM NPT By: Gitta Shrestha and Labisha Uprety

Access to irrigation technology underpins easy and reliable water access. However, land ownership is a prerequisite to access water sources and finance to secure irrigation technologies. Yet, exploitative and unequal gender and caste relations determine access to and benefit from productive resources such as land and water.