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Assessing desertification and water harvesting in the Middle East and North Africa : policy implications
Nasr, Mamdouh - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001403364
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Water market reforms : impact on irrigated broadacre farms
Samaranayaka, Dinesha - In: Australian commodities 4 (1997) 4, pp. 490-502
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001231783
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Water Availability as a Constraint on China's Future Growth
Medianu, Dana - 2012
Recent writings on China's water situation often portray China's water problems as severe and suggest that water availability could threaten the sustainability of China's future growth. However, China's high growth of the last 20 years or more has been obtained with relatively little increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105455
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Who Engages in Water Scarcity Conflicts? A Field Experiment with Irrigators in Semi-Arid Africa
Lecoutere, Els - 2014
strong non-competition norms regulate irrigation water distribution. But not all react to water scarcity in the same way …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069410
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Willingness to Pay for Low Water Footprint Food Choices During Drought
Krovetz, Hannah - 2017
In the context of recent California drought years, we investigate empirically whether consumers are willing to pay for more efficient water usage in the production of four California agricultural products. We implement an internet survey choice experiment for avocados, almonds, lettuce, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954451
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Economics of Irrigation Water Management : A Literature Survey with Focus on Partial and General Equilibrium Models
Dudu, Hasan; Chumi, Sinqobile - 2012
that are relevant to irrigation water management issues. The most widely discussed issues in these models are water markets … water policy make it difficult to provide a comprehensive policy analysis. General equilibrium models of irrigation water … management allow incorporation of both the irrigation sector and the other sectors in the economy and analysis of policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552340
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Resource scarcity and cooperation : evidence from a gravity irrigation system in China
Zihan, Nie; Yang, Xiaojun; Tu, Qin - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 135 (2020), pp. 1-14
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511011
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Environmental Change, Water Scarcity and Farmers' Differentiated Adaptations : Evidence from the Three Gorges Dam
Chen, Ting; Liu, Chong; Ma, Sen - 2021
Using the 2003 initial impoundment of the world's largest hydroelectric dam as a natural experiment, we assess how rural households with varying endowments adapt differently to the dam-induced water scarcity in the downstream area. In response to a 13\% reduction in rice yields, those who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238385
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Water, Food Security and Agricultural Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Shetty, Shobha - 2006
The Middle East and North Africa (MNA) region is one of the most water scarce regions in the world, with a regional annual average of 1,200 cubic meters per person (world average is close to 7,000). Water, not land, is now the limiting factor for improving agricultural production in the MNA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255583
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Water, Food Security and Agricultural Policy in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Shetty, Shobha - 2006
The Middle East and North Africa (MNA) region is one of the most water scarce regions in the world, with a regional annual average of 1,200 cubic meters per person (world average is close to 7,000). Water, not land, is now the limiting factor for improving agricultural production in the MNA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209120