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Corvée versus money : micro-history of a water infrastructure in the Alps, the Rû Courtaud, 1393-2013
Florio, Massimo - 2013 - This version: January 11, 2013
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Gender issue and water management in the Mediterranean Basin, Middle East and North Africa
Minoia, Giulia (contributor) - 2007
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Simple myths and basic maths about greening irrigation
Gómez, Carlos M. C.; Pérez-Blanco, Dionisio - 2015
irrigation techniques seem not to be contributing to reduce water scarcity and increase drought resiliency. In fact, according to … appear. This basic model is expected to serve as guidance for assessing the actual outcomes of increasing irrigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476198
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El Niño and Indian droughts : a scoping exercise
Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014
Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to lead to droughts. In the last 14 years, out of the four El Niño years globally, three resulted in Indian droughts. Since the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in...
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Optimal exploitation of groundwater and the potential for a tradable permit system in irrigated agriculture
Latinopoulos, Dionysis; Sartzetakis, Eftichios Sofokles - 2011
A great challenge facing future agricultural water policy is to explore the potential for transition from the current myopic competitive (common) exploitation of groundwater resources to a long-term efficient and sustainable allocation. A number of economic and/or command and control instruments...
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Monsoon 2013 : estimating the impact on agriculture
Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta; Jain, Surbhi - 2013
This paper attempts to project the likely impact of robust monsoon rains of 2013 on the Agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in India. The model hypothesizes that the performance of agriculture in India depends upon (1) investments in agriculture (private and public); (2)...
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Using satellite images to measure crop productivity : long-term impact assessment of a randomized technology adoption program in the Dominican Republic
Salazar, Lina; Palacios, Ana Claudia; Selvaraj, Michael; … - 2021
This study combines three rounds of surveys with remote sensing to measure long-term impacts of a randomized irrigation … year after the adoption takes place. These findings suggest that adoption of irrigation technologies can be a long and …
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Automated enforcement of irrigation regulations and social pressure for water conservation
West, Jeremy; Fairlie, Robert W.; Pratt, Bryan; Rose, Liam - 2021
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Unleashing Bihar's agriculture potentia : sources and drivers of agriculture growth
Hoda, Anwarul; Rajkhowa, Pallavi; Gulati, Ashok - 2017
resulted in high dependency on diesel for pumping out groundwater for irrigation; this, along with soaring petroleum prices … of feeders for irrigation, increase in the intensity of surfaced roads in rural areas, improve procurement and marketing …
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Transforming agriculture in Odisha : sources and drivers of agriculture growth
Hoda, Anwarul; Rajkhowa, Pallavi; Gulati, Ashok - 2017
, it makes three principal recommendations to stimulate agricultural growth in the state. viz., expansion of irrigation … value commodities. The main scope for expanding irrigation lies in the largely untapped ground water resources; this … separating the feeders for irrigation. The proportion of surfaced roads in the state is one of the lowest in the country and …
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