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"The authors focus on policy interventions for improving irrigation water allocation decisions by including both macro … demonstrated, using the case of Morocco, by analyzing selected policy (top-down and bottom-up) interventions and external shocks …
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successfully expanding irrigation and improving productivity, farmers and managers face an emerging crisis in the form of poorly … performing irrigation schemes, slow modernization, declining investment, constrained water availability, and environmental … management, specifically: building policies and incentives; designing institutional reforms; investing in irrigation systems …
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water. Agricultural water management (AWM) encompasses irrigation on both a large and small scale, drainage of irrigated and … set up an incentive framework that encourages efficient water use and profitable high value agriculture. Evidence … environmentally responsible resource use. At the same time, irrigation schemes pose a financial challenge: to recover costs at a rate …
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The overall goal of this report is to give strategic focus to implementation of the agricultural water management (AWM) components of the corporate strategies. Its specific objectives are to set out the changing context of demand and supply for agricultural water; to identify the policy,...
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contribution of the agriculture sector to the country's economic growth and diversification, employment creation, poverty reduction …, however, requires an integrated set of multi-sectoral policies. Synergistic public and private investments in agriculture …, water, and land can lead to increased production and productivity by transitioning from low returns from agriculture to high …
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This report focuses principally on three key dimensions of better public expenditure management in Pakistan. First, it is paramount to continue financial discipline and reduce the overall size of the public sector deficit, including the sizable losses of public enterprises. The modest progress...
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is providing assistance to the Government of Tajikistan to address irrigation and drainage deficiencies in Eastern Sughd … rehabilitation of irrigation networks, drainage systems, and reservoir dykes and to emphasize institutional development through …
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