Power tariffs for groundwater irrigation in India: A comparative analysis of the environmental, equity, and economic tradeoffs

BS Sidhu, M Kandlikar, N Ramankutty - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] A survey and analysis of the first 40 years of scholarly literature in DEA: 1978–2016

A Emrouznejad, G Yang - Socio-economic planning sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

Groundwater governance in Pakistan: From colossal development to neglected management

AS Qureshi - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Groundwater is playing an essential role in expanding irrigated agriculture in many parts of
the world. Pakistan is the third-largest user of groundwater for irrigation in the world. The …

Impact of land fragmentation, farm size, land ownership and crop diversity on profit and efficiency of irrigated farms in India

AV Manjunatha, AR Anik, S Speelman, EA Nuppenau - Land use policy, 2013 - Elsevier
In this article, we analyze the impact of land fragmentation, farm size, land ownership and
crop diversity on farm profit and efficiency of 90 groundwater irrigated farms in the hard rock …

Provincial water use efficiency measurement and factor analysis in China: based on SBM-DEA model

G Deng, L Li, Y Song - Ecological Indicators, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper estimates water use efficiency of 31 provinces in China during 2004–2013 using
slack based measure-data envelopment analysis (SBM-DEA) model which takes …

How can agricultural water use efficiency be promoted in China? A spatial-temporal analysis

F Wang, C Yu, L Xiong, Y Chang - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2019 - Elsevier
China's agricultural sector experienced rapid growth in the last two decades, with a tripled
increase in sectorally total economic output from 2000 to 2017. However, expanding large …

Small private irrigation: A thriving but overlooked sector

C De Fraiture, M Giordano - Agricultural Water Management, 2014 - Elsevier
An increasing number of smallholder farmers engage in irrigation using their own resources.
They buy or rent irrigation equipment and draw water from nearby sources without …

Towards sustainable water use: Factors influencing farmers' participation in the informal groundwater markets in Pakistan

A Razzaq, M Xiao, Y Zhou, M Anwar, H Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Informal groundwater markets have spontaneously developed in Pakistan due to the
heterogeneity of farmers' resource endowments, irrigation water shortages, and productivity …

Can the informal groundwater markets improve water use efficiency and equity? Evidence from a semi-arid region of Pakistan

A Razzaq, P Qing, M Abid, M Anwar, I Javed - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Pakistani farmers are using groundwater at an increasing rate to supplement their irrigation
needs. This practice has led to overexploitation of groundwater in the country, resulting in …

Assessing China's agricultural water use efficiency in a green-blue water perspective: A study based on data envelopment analysis

Q Geng, Q Ren, RH Nolan, P Wu, Q Yu - Ecological indicators, 2019 - Elsevier
Uneven water resources and growing food demand due to an increasing population bring
challenges to China. One important mechanism to address these challenges is to enhance …