Articles by Shisher Shrestha

Faced with high energy costs, Nepal’s growing fish industry could find a cost-saving, sustainable solution in solar technology.

In the hills of Sindhupalchowk in Nepal, a newly installed solar lift system carries water uphill to reach the fields and people of a highly marginalized community, bringing relief from scarcity, reducing women’s daily burdens and improving livelihoods.

Small solar pumps help individual farmers, but larger systems that serve collective fields could drive uptake and lift rural incomes across Nepal’s breadbasket, as lessons from its neighbor Indian state of Bihar show.