Zach Marhanka graduated from the GSVS program in May 2022 with a double major in economics, and a minor in statistics. Zach lives and works in Pandharpur, Maharashtra, India as a Fulbright-Nehru Student Researcher. Pandharpur's farmers are the backbone of the local economy but face unreliable irrigation access due to load-shedding and drought-threatening conditions. However, in the last decade, government subsidies provided farmers with a potentially more reliable, distributed, and renewable pumping option: solar irrigation pumps. Zach is working with SVERI College of Engineering to measure how local transitions toward solar irrigation pumping impact Pandharpur's food-water-energy nexus, and ultimately the livelihood of its farmers. Zach is interviewing farmers in the Pandharpur taluka, surveying farming practices, and using applied econometrics to model adoption's impacts on farms' land productivity, profits, and water demand. By the end of his fellowship, Zach and his collaborators will provide a local impact evaluation on solar irrigation adoption to inform rural energy transition policy and its consequences for agricultural businesses.