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Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …
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irrigation water available in the country. Hence if sustainable agriculture water-use has to be ensured, economics (productivity … irrigation water and power used in agriculture on per hectare basis, and then let the water markets operate amongst farmers 5 …Indian agriculture is estimated to be consuming about 78 percent of total fresh water resources available in the …
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This paper analyzes the economic impacts of changes in water availability due to climate change. We develop a new … modeling approach as an alternative to include water as a production factor within a global CGE model. We tailor the structure … agricultural sector. In order to reach this objective, a new database has been built to explicitly consider water endowments …
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, developing irrigated agriculture may lead to a water-land trade-off that can significantly alleviate the land stress in those …How to keep water and land stress within planetary boundaries is a major challenge for sustainable development in Latin … simulates future land and water demand for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru under three climate-socioeconomic scenarios: SSP …
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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) agricultural price incentives; and (3) rainfall. A log-linear model fitted … place in agriculture over this period. Other variables remain the same. This model also suggests that the agri-GDP growth …
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The current Water Abstraction License (WAL) regime in Italy is no longer flexible enough to cope with the challenges … of bottom-up conflict resolution mechanisms at a basin scale; a water pricing scheme that does not reflect the cost of … water conveyance and use, and does not encourage efficient water allocation; and the lack of a central WAL register, which …
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. Agriculture growth was around 4.7 per cent, which was above the national average of 3.6 per cent and in the latest five years, its … performance was even more commendable, with an average annual growth rate of 7.1 per cent. However, agriculture productivity of … in yield augmenting inputs such as fertilisers, certified seeds, tube wells and farm machines. Bihar's agriculture has …
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value commodities. The main scope for expanding irrigation lies in the largely untapped ground water resources; this … agriculture. During the five years from 2010-11 to 2014-15, the contribution of agriculture to the state GDP recorded an annual … average growth of a mere 0.9 per cent. This paper studies the composition, sources and potential drivers of agriculture growth …
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