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the global level. We develop a simple model establishing a positive link between the demand for irrigation water of … our model empirically using data on 243 irrigated crops exported by 183 countries, and find that countries’ irrigation …
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specified quantities of water for agricultural purposes. Some water is extracted through large-scale irrigation infrastructure … draining soils benefit most from irrigation, possibly because the water is retained for longer on these properties. Drier areas … appear to benefit more from irrigation than do areas with higher rainfall. Farms that are situated close to towns derive …
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Many of the world's common pool resources are located in poor countries, where consumption levels may be low enough to adversely affect the users' health. Under these circumstances, an agent's utility function may be described as an S-shaped function of consumption. Using non-cooperative game...
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many of the import competing sectors in Maroccan agriculture are protected while water in irrigated agriculture is priced below its marginal value product. Establishing a water market is this pre-trade reform environment can be welfare decreasing. Further, as the shadow price of water is...
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wilting point respectivelly) were registered every year. The use of the irrigation determined the improve of the water … researches sustain the irrigation opportunity for sustainable agriculture in the North-Western Romania. …
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wilting point respectivelly) were registered every year. The use of the irrigation determined the improve of the water … researches sustain the irrigation opportunity for sustainable agriculture in the North-Western Romania. …
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irrigation is essential if agrarian returns are to increase, the way water was distributed among irrigators often gave rise to …
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stakeholders beyond the irrigation community, to include more scientists or representatives of institutions protecting local … secteur de l’irrigation, dont les chercheurs et les représentants d’institutions qui protègent les écosystèmes locaux. Le bas …, especially in agriculture, where much irrigation water generates little value-added. The government has subsidised the use of …
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An article about the directions and priorities of the regional policy of the state to regulate the regional water consumption in the Omsk region. The authors analyze the situation with the water consumption in China, Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation, as well as alternative ways of solving...
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Land subsidence threatens the living conditions of roughly 1.2 billion people worldwide in deltaic regions characterized by soft top soil. Economic activity in deltaic regions requires lowering the groundwater levels to keep the land sufficiently dry to maintain productivity, which, however,...
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