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Regional Economic Implications of Water Allocation and Reliability

Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray; Ford, Stuart; Bywater, Tony; … - 2005

The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is...

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Does Price Asymmetry Exist In Commodity and Energy Markets?

Wixson, Sarah E.; Katchova, Ani L. - 2011

Recent increases in the price of crude oil have led to a rise in the prominence of corn-based ethanol as an alternative … determine if soybeans, corn, wheat, oil, and ethanol adjust their prices asymmetrically depending on whether their actual price …

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The Impact of Access to Credit on the Adoption of hybrid maize in Malawi: An Empirical test of an Agricultural Household Model under credit market failure

Simtowe, F.; Zeller, Manfred - 2008

Guided by the frame work of a household model under credit market failure, this paper aims at investigating the impact of access to credit on the adoption of hybrid maize among households that vary in their credit constraints. The data used in the study is from Malawi collected by the...

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Conditions Necessary for Private Investment in the Ethanol Industry

Kenkel, Philip L.; Holcomb, Rodney B. - 2009

While agricultural economics literature has become rife with the economics of ethanolproduction and cellulosic ethanol … mandated by the EnergySecurity and Independence Act of 2007. Financing the development of the ethanol industry tomeet the 36 … billion gallon production capacity set for 2022 (with 16 billion gallons fromcellulosic ethanol) will require capital …

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Tome 1: Appendice III - Rapport sectoriel socio-economique.

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Facilitating access to rural services in Vietnam: The invisible social capital link

Hoang Dinh, Quoc; Dufhues, Thomas; Buchenrieder, Gertrud - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012

This paper investigates the effects of network based individual social capital on the access of rural households to services. In the context of development economics, an innovative data collection approach is used to determine network based social capital. The approach originates from the field...

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Pricing Water for Power Generation: A Two-Tier Approach

Labson, B Stephen - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 1996

Current arrangements for pricing water for power generation are often deficient in providing signals in which to base investment decisions and in allocating water to its highest valued use. To address these shortcomings, a framework is proposed which relies on a two-tier pricing systern....

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Resource mobilization for sustainable management: proceedings of a Workshop on Major Irrigation Schemes in Sri Lanka, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 22-24 February 1990

International Water Management Institute (IWMI); … - 1990

Papers focus on institutional reform that is seen as a prerequisite to effective mobilization of sufficient resources for sustainable management of major irrigation schemes. They analyze the impediments to high performance system management within the irrigation management agencies and the...

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Farmer management of groundwater irrigation in Asia: selected papers from a South Asian Regional Workshop on Groundwater Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems and Sustainable Groundwat...

Vermillion, Douglas Lynn; Johnson III, Sam H.; Perry, … - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 1994

In this workshop the participants identified five priority areas of concern relative to sustainable management of groundwater irrigation by farmers:1) aquifer drawdown; 2) FMIS groundwaterwater support services, 3) management problems under water-surplus conditions; 4) management problems under...

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