Agriculture, development, and global public goods: US policies at cross purposes -- Agriculture, poverty, and food …

Use of water in agriculture has a major driving force behind general water use patterns in the United States. To assess … Battese and Coelli (1995) to estimate a translog production frontier for agriculture at the county level with four inputs …

for drinking, sanitation, and agriculture. Water conservation can be a means to mitigate the economic damages associated … efforts have focused on farm-level irrigation efficiency. However, since over one-third of water applied for agricultural … irrigation in the U.S. comes from off-farm supplies, improvements in delivery and conveyance efficiency also have the potential …

examine how a producer's beliefs about water shortages influence investment in more efficient irrigation technologies. We then … a more efficient irrigation technology on average. We also present evidence that adoption rates are driven more by … incentivizing adaptation to increasing water scarcity in irrigated agriculture …