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 …

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

-intensive field crops, such as sugarcane and fodder. Accordingly, liberalizing local water allocation in irrigation agriculture is … for water trade between irrigation and non-agricultural uses fueled by higher competition for water from industrial … expansion and urbanization leads to greater water shadow prices for irrigation water with reduced income and employment benefits …