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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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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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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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The volume-based Special Safeguard Mechanism was proposed as essential for small, poor farmers and became the proximate cause of the collapse of the Doha Agenda negotiations in 2008. But is it helpful for these farmers, given that it is likely to be applied when farm output is depressed and many...
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Did the rise in food prices have a long-term impact on agricultural production? Using household-level panel data from seven provinces of Indonesia, this paper finds that the price shock created a forward-looking incentive to invest, which can dynamically enhance productivity in agriculture. It...
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Trade policy reforms in recent decades have sharply reduced the distortions that were harming agriculture in developing countries, yet global trade in farm products continues to be far more distorted than trade in nonfarm goods. Those distortions reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but...
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Most poor people in developing countries still live in rural areas and are primarily engaged in low productivity farming activities. Thus pathways out of poverty are likely to be strongly connected to productivity increases in the rural economy, whether they are realized in farming, in rural...
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Global poverty is becoming increasingly concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and among households engaged in subsistence agriculture in environments characterized by uncertainty. Understanding how to achieve sustainable increases in household incomes in this context is key to ending extreme...
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governance reform in Pakistan's vast Indus Basin irrigation system. Using canal discharge measurements across all of Punjab …
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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 …
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