Agricultural production is heavily dependent on water availability in Turkey, where half the crop production relies on irrigation. Irrigated agriculture consumes about 75 percent of total water used, which...
The pressure on an already stressed water situation in South Africa is predicted to increase significantly under climate change, plans for large industrial expansion, observed rapid urbanization, and government...
The authors focus on policy interventions for improving irrigation water allocation decisions by including both macro and micro considerations in a unified analytical computable general equilibrium (CGE)...
Agricultural support programs are designed to protect farmers have undergone major reforms worldwide since the inception of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in the mid 1980s. The impetus for these...
Financial market fragmentation and reforms in Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania. Ernest Aryeetey, Hemamala Hettige, Machiko Nissanke, and William Steel Civil liberties, democracy, and the performance...
A useful means for achieving efficient allocation of irrigation water is to put the right price tag on it. This article discusses some of the more pervasive pricing methods and compares their efficiency...