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Nirman Shrestha

Regional Researcher - Agricultural Water Management

Research team

Water, climate change and resilience > Climate mitigation and adaptation pathways

Areas of expertise

hydrological modeling agricultural water management crop water balance modeling geographic information system project management field experiment setups

Nirman has worked in different projects in Asia, Europe, South America and Africa. After longer stays in Belgium, UK and USA, he is now based in Kathmandu, Nepal, since 2017. Prior to joining IWMI, he has published several peer-reviewed articles, and supervised some graduate and postgraduate students.

Recent publications

Integrated assessment of irrigation and agriculture management challenges in Nepal: an interdisciplinary perspective.

Implementing conjunctive management of water resources for irrigation development: a framework applied to the Southern Plain of western Nepal.

A framework to monitor crop-specific drought and flood impacts using remote sensing datasets.

An open-source tool for improving on-farm yield forecasting systems.

An FAO model comparison: Python Agroecological Zoning (PyAEZ) and AquaCrop to assess climate change impacts on crop yields in Nepal.

Contact

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Languages

English, Nepali, Newari, Hindi

Profiles

Office

Nepal Office

Kathmandu, Nepal

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