Groundwater irrigation using electric pumps plays a key role in India's agricultural water
supply. Power utilities across different states use two common tariff modes to charge …

In 1947, British India-the part of South Asia that is today's India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh-
emerged from the colonial era with the world's largest centrally managed canal irrigation …

“Getting prices right” is the silver bullet widely advocated to developing countries in fighting
waste, misallocation and scarcity of water. In the vast, poverty-stricken Indo-Gangetic basin …

The main focus of this article is to explore whether access to selected agricultural water
management (AWM) technologies has led to significant reduction in poverty and, if they did …

Irrigation development has historically comprised a considerable proportion of the overall
infrastructure investment portfolio of the Bank. However, after a surge from the 1960s to …

The need to enhance sustainable development of land use is more urgent than ever;
specifically in developing countries where poverty and land degradation are often …

The study examines the impact of Taung irrigation scheme on the household welfare among
farmers in the North West Province. Irrigation farming is one of the most important rural …

India's smallholder irrigation is in the grip of an energy squeeze and is proving the
proverbial last straw on the camels back Marginal farmers and sharecroppers are …

The use of groundwater in irrigated agriculture is often regarded as an effective way of
increasing farm productivity. However, the effects of differential access to groundwater by …

It is usually taken for granted that the existence of water markets allows economic efficiency
gains to be achieved at the expense of equity losses. This paper addresses the issue by …