irrigation. Irrigated agriculture consumes about 75 percent of total water used, which is about 30 percent of renewable water …

that are relevant to irrigation water management issues. The most widely discussed issues in these models are water markets … water policy make it difficult to provide a comprehensive policy analysis. General equilibrium models of irrigation water … management allow incorporation of both the irrigation sector and the other sectors in the economy and analysis of policies …

. They find that it is important to include the amount of irrigation water available to each farm in order to measure the … response of farms to climate. With irrigation water omitted, the model predicts that climate change is strictly beneficial. But …

This paper estimates a model of a farm that treats the choice of crops, livestock, and irrigation as endogenous. The … model is composed of a multinomial choice of farm type, a binomial choice of irrigation, and a set of conditional land value … adapt their choice of farm type and irrigation to their local climate. The results should help governments develop effective …

Previous Ricardian analyses of agriculture have either omitted irrigation or treated irrigation as though it is … exogenous. In practice, it is a choice by farmers that is sensitive to climate. This paper develops a choice model of irrigation … in the context of a Ricardian model of cropland. The authors examine how climate affects the decision to use irrigation …

Irrigation management transfer is an important strategy among donors and governments to strengthen farmer control over … water and irrigation infrastructure. This study seeks to understand whether irrigation management transfer is meeting the … Philippines to estimate the impact of irrigation management transfer on irrigation association performance and on rice yields …

The author looks at the feasibility and potential of instituting small-scale irrigation dams to reduce Ethiopia s … implications of irrigation development programs and provides empirical evidence from microdam construction and reforestation …-scale irrigation dams in areas prone to waterborne diseases. While the theoretical analyses imply that the net welfare impacts of …

The authors focus on policy interventions for improving irrigation water allocation decisions by including both macro …

This study estimates and compares the effects of small and large irrigation dams on cropland productivity in South …-benefit analysis of irrigation benefits shows that small dams may be more viable than large ones, large dams can play a potentially …