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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 …
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This paper examines the distribution of climate change impacts across the 16 agro-ecological zones in Africa using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization combined with economic survey data from a Global Environment Facility/World Bank project. Net revenue per hectare of cropland is...
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irrigation. Irrigated agriculture consumes about 75 percent of total water used, which is about 30 percent of renewable water …
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Atmospheric methane is a potent greenhouse gas that has accounted for 23 percent of radiative forcing in the lower atmosphere since 1750. Since methane has a much shorter atmospheric duration than carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, it provides a critical opportunity for near-term...
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. 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The authors focus on policy interventions for improving irrigation water allocation decisions by including both macro …
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