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 …

This study provides estimates of social and financial costs of environmental damage in India from three pollution … international studies. The study estimates the total cost of environmental degradation in India at about 3.75 trillion rupees (US$80 …

influencing the incidence of child health gains from access to piped water in rural India. Using propensity score matching methods …

among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … coverage in rural India by 2012. This paper reports on a cluster-randomized, controlled trial that was conducted in 80 rural …

-owners in southern India. The findings show that, while the contracting distortion leads to an average welfare loss of less than … benefits of the water-saving technologies now being heavily promoted in India …

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 …

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 …

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 …

. 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 …

improved technologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yet …