Informal groundwater markets have spontaneously developed in Pakistan due to the
heterogeneity of farmers' resource endowments, irrigation water shortages, and productivity …

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 …

Uninhibited drafting and plummeting groundwater levels have entailed a slew of eco-
environmental and socio-economic crises across vast swathes of South Asia, leading to …

Pakistan is the world's third-largest user of groundwater and the fourth-largest groundwater
withdrawing country. The Indus Basin aquifer from where Pakistan withdraws its …

Groundwater irrigation has a critical role in the sustainability of arable farming in many
developing countries including Pakistan. Groundwater irrigation is generally practiced to …

Purpose India's biofuel programme relies on ethanol production from sugarcane molasses.
However, there is limited insight on environmental impacts across the Indian ethanol …

This book, Water Markets: A Global Assessment, includes chapters written by water policy
expert scholars highlighting the extent of water markets in 20 countries (and across 28 …

Abstract Study region Lodhran and Jhang districts in the Central and South Punjab province
of Pakistan. Study focus Pakistan is amongst the largest groundwater withdrawing countries …

In Pakistan, excessive lowering of the groundwater table has made crop irrigation costlier
and without improving production efficiency, Pakistan's rural economy will be adversely …

We employ a non‐parametric approach, data envelopment analysis, to estimate the
technical and irrigation efficiency of rice farms in the P unjab P rovince of P akistan. We use …