In this paper we consider a two periods model of cropping using irrigation. The farmer takes two kind of decisions, one … related to the level of investment in irrigation capacity and the other one to the irrigation level in each period. In the … period. Assuming a CARA utility function, we show that taxing the investment may entail an increase in preventive irrigation …

. Summarizing the outcomes of these reforms, a certain freedom granted to farmers stands out as one of the main achievements and an … important reason for the sector's efficiency. Peasant farms are effectively protected from attempts to administratively regulate … spillovers to the small farmers around them, and do not aim at replacing them mechanically. The list of incomplete policy reforms …

and mostly negative. Global water savings are achieved. Not only regions where irrigation efficiency changes are able to …We use the new version of the GTAP-W model to analyze the economy-wide impacts of enhanced irrigation efficiency. The … to improvements in irrigation efficiency in water-stressed regions is not beneficial for all. For water-stressed regions …

on these climate projections, the irrigation demand of Bavaria's agriculture is calculated in a model simulation. The … model results are subdivided into arable crops, vegetable crops and special crops. Studies on irrigation demand done in the … of the project. The model approach is based on the principle of Geisenheim irrigation management where soil and crop …

and the government aimed at increasing community participation in the design and management of irrigation canals. The case …

factors. The new model has been used to study a variety of topics including: irrigation efficiency, sustainable water use … agriculture. Moreover, the new production structure accounts for substitution possibilities between irrigation and other primary …

crops, reducing the quota of VAT collected on chain at 9% for bread), fiscal inequity was created between farmers according … of agricultural production. The most disadvantaged are those of 3,859,000 individual farmers, family farms and …

on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …) and technical efficiency changes. We found that relative to the baseline rice output per decimal, access to credit … total effect into the frontier shift and efficiency improvement, we found that, on average, around 11 percent of the …