Books reviewed: P. Lynn Kennedy and Won W. Koo (eds), Agricultural Trade Policies in the New Millennium Andrew P. Davidson and Munir Ahmad, Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension: The Case of Pakistan

Wetland ecosystems on privately owned farms – such as those on the Murrumbidgee River Floodplain in the state of New South Wales, Australia – provide a mix of potentially valuable outputs to their owners and the wider community. The mix of values generated is dependent on the biophysical...

Choosing a mechanism to encourage landholders to change their land management inorder to deliver environmental outcomes is a complicated process. Careful instrumentselection may count for little if uptake and adoption are insufficient to meetperformance targets. Similarly, investors may require...

Irrigated agriculture often leads to recharge to local and regional groundwater systems greater than what the systems can absorb, resulting in the development of shallow watertables causing salinity and waterlogging. Policy based on emissions trading offers one option for effective management of...

This paper reports controlled experiments on markets linking downstream water entitlement holders with upstream landholders wishing to establish large tree plantations. The present study tackles the question of whether it matters who owns the initial water rights. Coase's (1960) theorem suggests...

A rising saline aquifer in the Coleambally Irrigation Area constitutes a common pool resource, characterised by costly exclusion and rival utilisation for regional irrigators. The approach outlined in general terms in this paper is the application of formal, empirical techniques to guide the...