-2007, and (ii) though irrigation share significantly explains the growth of land productivity, delayed onset increasingly … constrains the role of irrigation. …

. Irrigation development, labor demand, and employment are studied. Total annual labor use increased following irrigation … forest-degrading activities. Empirical findings show irrigation-induced increases in agricultural employment can reduce …

irrigation water use. We suggest that a policy relying on a “well-priced†substitutable resource would be greatly favoured by …

Recent and presumable future developments tend to increase the risk associated with farming activities. This causes an … increasing importance of risk management. Farmers have a wide variety of possibilities to influence the risk exposure of their … as to match the resources of the farm as well as the farmer's attitudes towards risk. The paper addresses this issue …

. Planting date and irrigation threshold are the two variables optimized to maximize farmer's expected utility. A decreasing … absolute risk aversion - constant relative risk aversion (DARA-CRRA) utility function is used to examine crop management … decision that can be influenced by changes in inter-temporal risk behavior. Comparison is made from management perspective …

Texas High Plains (THP) is a major cotton producing region in the US with low rainfall and decreasing irrigation water … availability. Hence stochastic rainfall poses considerable production risk in the region and developing strategies to maximize the … optimal strategies for temporal allocation of irrigation water for center pivot irrigated cotton in THP. The study analyzed …

This study focuses on managing cotton production and marketing risks using combinations of irrigation levels, put … risk management strategies. Analyses for risk-averse decision makers indicate that multiple irrigations are preferred. The … applying more irrigation applications. Crop insurance is strongly preferred at lower irrigation levels. …

and irrigation system application rates in the model. Risk simulation procedures are used to generate an appropriately … available water resources through the adoption o f more efficient irrigation technology and irrigation scheduling. A requirement … is to develop a multiperiod mathematical risk programming model able of assisting water user associations with the …

rate of pumping for irrigation in the region is causing the aquifer to be depleted in many areas, which is cause for … decision to adopt groundwater-irrigated production by farmers, in the presence of risk differentiated by heterogeneous farmland …