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Aditi Mukherji
Researcher at International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Publications - 83
Citations - 2114
Aditi Mukherji is an academic researcher from International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. The author has contributed to research in topics: Food security & Irrigation management. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 73 publications receiving 1781 citations. Previous affiliations of Aditi Mukherji include International Water Management Institute & University of Cambridge.
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Groundwater socio-ecology and governance: a review of institutions and policies in selected countries
Aditi Mukherji,Tushaar Shah +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a balanced view of the plus and the down side of groundwater use, especially in agriculture, and argue that there is a need for a paradigm shift in the way groundwater is presently perceived and managed, from management to governance mode.
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Some aspects of South Asia's groundwater irrigation economy: analyses from a survey in India, Pakistan, Nepal Terai and Bangladesh
TL;DR: The first socioeconomic survey of its kind, involving 2,629 well-owners from 278 villages from India, Pakistan, Nepal Terai and Bangladesh, show that groundwater is used in over 75% of the irrigated areas in the sample villages, far more than secondary estimates suggest.
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The energy-irrigation nexus and its impact on groundwater markets in eastern Indo-Gangetic basin: Evidence from West Bengal, India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors make a case for rapid rural electrification and continuation of high flat-rate tariff, which would in turn support developed groundwater markets and provide access to irrigation to the poor and marginal farmers.
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The Indus and the Ganges: river basins under extreme pressure
Bharat R. Sharma,Upali A. Amarasinghe,Cai Xueliang,Devaraj de Condappa,Tushaar Shah,Aditi Mukherji,Luna Bharati,G. K. Ambili,Asad Sarwar Qureshi,Dhruba Pant,Stefanos Xenarios,Raushan Singh,Vladimir Smakhtin +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed development policies that are regionally differentiated to ensure resource sustainability and high productivity, and immediate development and implementation of policies for sound groundwater management and energy use, improvement of the fragile food security and to broaden its base, policy changes to address land fragmentation and improved infrastructure.