The overall goal of our article is to better understand which matters for water savings, farmer
income and poverty in China's irrigation systems: incentives to managers or participation of …

The overall goal of our paper is to better understand water management reform in China's
rural communities, especially focusing on the effect that improving incentives to water …

The overall goal of this paper is to better understand irrigation management reforms in the
Yellow River Basin, especially focusing on the effect that it will have on water use and …

We examine the development of irrigation management in northern China using data from
village and household panels. During the past decade, reform-oriented institutions, such as …

This study reviews 40 years of irrigation development in China including the transformation
of the institutional and incentive structures in irrigation management. After rural reforms in …

Under the pressure of increasing water shortages and the need to sustain the development
of irrigated agriculture, since the middle of the 1990s, officials in the YRB have begun to …

Our goal is to provide information regarding water management reform in China by
increasing understanding of newly emerging water institutions and identifying factors that …

The challenge of increasing irrigation prices while increasing farmers' income exists not only
in China but in other countries as well. The overall goal of this paper is to evaluate whether a …

Increasing agricultural water productivity will be a key factor in China's ability to maintain
food security in the face of rapidly growing water demand from other sectors. This paper …

Water pricing constitutes a key component currently ongoing agricultural water policy
reforms in China. It is used as a means to achieve two sets of goals:(a) improvements in …