This paper examines constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda …. It leverages a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key results. First, irrigation enables dry … irrigation causes farmers to substitute labor and inputs away from their other plots. Eliminating this substitution would …

This paper conducts an assessment of the global costs for expanding, upgrading, and improving irrigation infrastructure … partial equilibrium model of the global agricultural and forestry sectors. It examines the impacts of irrigation expansion on … (goal 6). It finds that irrigation support policies improve food security globally and can reduce the burden on land by …

governance reform in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge measurements across all of Punjab …

Surface irrigation is a common pool resource characterized by asymmetric appropriation opportunities across upstream … allocation under an irrigation bureaucracy subject to corruption and rent-seeking. Data on the landholdings and political …

context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient water to meet the total … requirements. High-frequency data from three irrigation schemes in Mozambique reveal patterns consistent with inefficiency in …

, including increased water extraction, poor irrigation management, and sea-level rise. To date no study has attempted to quantify …

water for irrigation to meet rising food demand; at the same time, the competition for water resources is growing in many …

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 …

-scale irrigation schemes, using data from Uganda, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Senegal. The authors find that adequate … irrigation, chemical fertilizer, and labor inputs are the key to high productivity. Chemical fertilizer is expensive in Uganda … between fertilizer and irrigation. Meanwhile, in the schemes located in four countries in West Africa's Sahel region, where …