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    Economics of Agricultural Water Conservation: Empirical Analysis and Policy Implications

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2012
    Northern America
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Land & Food Security
    climate change
    water rights
    food security
    farmers

    Climate change and recurrent drought in many of the world's dry places continue to inspire the search for economically attractive measures to conserve water. This study analyzes water conservation practices in irrigated agriculture in a sub-basin in North America's Rio Grande. A method is developed to estimate water savings in irrigated agriculture that result from public subsidies to farmers who convert from surface to drip irrigation. The method accounts for economic incentives affecting farmers' choices on irrigation technology, crop mix, water application, and water depletion.

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    Food or flowers? Contested transformations of community food security and water use priorities under new legal and market regimes in Ecuador's highlands

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Ecuador
    Land & Food Security
    water rights
    food security

    During the past three decades, the Pisque watershed in Ecuador's Northern Andes has become the country's principal export-roses producing area. Recently, a new boom of local smallholders have established small rose greenhouses and joined the flower-export business. This has intensified water scarcity and material/discursive conflicts over water use priorities: water to defend local-national food sovereignty or production for export.

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    Can current land and water governance systems promote sustainable and equitable large-scale agricultural investments in sub-Saharan Africa?

    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2015
    Mali, Ghana, Africa
    Land & Investments
    Land & Food Security
    farmland
    land investments
    land tenure
    land acquisitions
    water rights
    property rights
    food security
    land rights
    agriculture

    Ever since the oil, financial and food crises of 2008, sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed a marked increase in large-scale investment in agricultural land. The drivers of this investment are varied and include growing food, water and energy insecurity as well as social and economic interests of investors and recipient countries. The shape of these investments and their eventual outcomes are equally influenced by the existing land and water governance systems in the host countries.

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