This report takes stock of agriculture and water policy changes from 2009 to 2019 and assesses the alignment of these … changes with relevant sections of the OECD Council Recommendation on Water and the 2017 G20 Agriculture Ministerial Action … Plan on water and food security. The analysis builds on results from a 2019 survey on agriculture and water policy changes …

Understanding the impact of international trade on the use of water resources provides a set of interesting ideas and … indirect links between international trade and water resources. It shows that with the right domestic policies and … international trade system, trade in water-related services as well as the transfer of innovation and technologies can efficiently …

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 …

world as two potential responses to changes in climatic factors. Our results indicate that one-standard deviation changes in … terms. Furthermore, lower water availability is associated with worse outcomes both through fewer cooperation events and …

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 …

evaluate the perceptions of farmers towards climate change and water scarcity. Then, determinants of adaptation practices were … highest value of the SI coefficient was attained for the perception "Water resource is getting scarce", which implies that … most farmers already have worries about the potential risk of water shortages although they have been operating with an …

Water is an important resource as well as a constraint to urban development. Given variation over space and time, urban … water resource management often calls for an integrated approach toward it. Resource accounting is such prudent method of … water management in the urban context. This paper argues for using water accounting as an appropriate tool for decision …

Throughout the world, international and state political boundaries divide ground water resources into politically … convenient jurisdictions. Subsurface water, however, does not recognize such borders and flows freely without regard to overlying … politics. This disregard for the political dimension, coupled with the growing global importance of fresh water, has the …

This paper proposes that transboundary water governance needs to become an essential input to sustainable governance of … the factors behind successful practices. Successful transboundary governance of water and nature requires the reduction of … associated transaction costs. Firstly, water diplomacy through joint research, data collection and monitoring, capacity building …

This paper examines how a surface water market affects the performance of a groundwater basin that is in open access … when the common pool resource (CPR) problem is severe. I build a theoretical model to analyze the agricultural water use in … California Central Valley. The model establishes the link between the efficacy of surface water market and the farmers' crop …