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beneficiaries in an equitable and fair way. The proposed approach is applied to theWest Delta irrigation project. It sketches a …
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fee decided by water supplier side. However, diverse functions are being desired to irrigation facilities in recent years … environment as typical examples. Thus agricultural water supply should be regarded as irrigation services and it is needed to … irrigation services, on it, grasp the agricultural conditions quantitatively from an economic viewpoint by such as estimation of …
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We evaluate the structural consequences of water availability scenarios in the Mediterranean, following a multidisciplinary approach and a sequential modelling methodology. This includes an assessment of future water availability and a general equilibrium macroeconomic analysis of changes in...
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Watershed development in India has gained momentum with a variety of agencies trying approaches to technology, costs and subsidies, and institutional arrangements. The Watershed Development Programme has three important features: Unprecedented devolution of decision-making power backed up by...
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, precipitation changes, and unitary irrigation costs. Results suggest different economic consequences of climate change depending on …
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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 …
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, precipitation changes, and unitary irrigation costs. Results suggest different economic consequences of climate change depending on …
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. This paper briefly reviews the current issues in irrigation water pricing, presents an analytical framework for determining … economic value of irrigation water using both the direct and indirect techniques, and the results of a case study of a large …-scale irrigation project located in the Northern Plains of Thailand. The contingent valuation method has been used for measuring farmer …
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Agricultural water stress is a critical problem undermining socioeconomic development and environmental sustainability of water and land resources in many agriculture-based economies. Uzbekistan is an example of such case, where for coping with the problem, water reforms such as creation of...
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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 … to significantly reduce water losses. This study utilizes survey data from irrigation water delivery organizations in the …
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