To date, the land-water-food nexus has been primarily addressed from an ecological, hydrological or agronomic angle … farmers. The results indicate that land system variables contribute to the willingness to cooperate in irrigation management …. Specifically, formal land tenure has a positive effect on farmers paying for water as well as on the likelihood of their investing …

Water for irrigation and irrigation infrastructure are both common pool resources, due to their low excludability and … communities are presented. The simplest example is watering crops without paying the water price. Individuals will use their power … commitment which is one prerequisite for collective action. The effects on water management can be severe and the common pool …

During the post-socialist transition period, the Bulgarian irrigation facilities deteriorated to a large extent and no … two new laws to encourage collective action and to establish water user associations in order to achieve sustainable water … management. In this article, we will question the frequent argument that water user associations could easily be established in …

In Bulgaria’s irrigation sector, collective action solutions have been propagated by the Bulgarian Government and the … World Bank in recent years. However, the introduction of a World Bank Project, the enforcement of the Bulgarian Water Law in … 2000 and the Water User Association Act in 2001 find no common ground where collective action can grow. Given that …

Irrigation, until recently a major water user in Bulgaria, has been drastically affected by the political and economic … the well-known common-pool resource dilemma, thereby securing sustainable water management. This article questions whether …

In this paper we consider both hydrology and governance as critical dimensions for irrigation water security. We scale … down the overall water security concept to the agricultural sector, suggest an index of irrigation water security faced by … farmers, and provide an empirical illustration in the case of Tajikistan. Irrigation water security is investigated by three …