survey in rural Ghana, we examine how asymmetries in benefits and real wealth levels impact farmers' behavior and group …

informal insurance and irrigation provision. Firstly, I demonstrate theoretically that if access to the benefits of such public … institutions and welfare losses due to sub-optimal irrigation ownership and management practices followed in India …

irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the allocated water are major reasons behind this paradox. Water guzzler … irrigation water available in the country. Hence if sustainable agriculture water-use has to be ensured, economics (productivity … profitability can be achieved with lesser amounts of irrigation water. This is what is attempted in this paper. The study shows that …

In most developing countries non-irrigation status often dominates adoption of traditional and modern irrigation … technology. In this paper, we study the effect of production risk on irrigation technology choice among small-scale farmers in …, receiving extension services, and living in communes with more adopters are more likely to use modern irrigation techniques …

irrigation in modulating these effects. Utilizing a newly assembled global geospatial data set that combines information on … presence of irrigation infrastructure effectively mitigates both the direct negative impacts and the negative spatial spillover … considering spatial dynamics and irrigation in understanding the effects of water scarcity on economic activity, providing …