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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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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 …
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, including increased water extraction, poor irrigation management, and sea-level rise. To date no study has attempted to quantify …
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Groundwater is a vital yet threatened resource in much of South Asia. This paper develops a model of groundwater transactions under payoff uncertainty arising from unpredictable fluctuations in groundwater availability during the agricultural dry season. The model highlights the trade-off...
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water for irrigation to meet rising food demand; at the same time, the competition for water resources is growing in many …
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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 …
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-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 …
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innovative approach linking key issues related to different aspects of wastewater irrigation to a country?s level of economic … irrigation agenda forward …
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improved technologies, particularly improved seed, fertilizers and other agro-chemicals, machinery, and irrigation. Yet …
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