Author: Waltina Scheumann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 3642590446
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Salinization of soils is a major threat to irrigated agriculture and counteracts the targets of costly public infrastructure investments. In this study, salinization is regarded as the outcome of an institutional arrangement which impedes the effective implementation of well-known and well-established control measures be they technical, managerial or economic. In public irrigation systems neither the management units nor the farmers are offered any incentives towards the control of high groundwater levels and salinization if the management units are embedded in a highly centralized non-market institutional setting. The author answers the question under which conditions management units and irrigators are active in halting and reversing the process of salinization.
Author: Carlos Garces Restrepo
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 744
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Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9783940124623
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Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9711040271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arlene B. Inocencio
Publisher: IWMI
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9290906588
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →High irrigation investment costs together with declining world prices for food and the failures of a number of high profile past irrigation projects are the main reasons for the reluctance of development agencies and governments in sub-Saharan Africa to invest more resources in irrigation. This study aims to systematically establish whether costs of irrigation projects in sub-Saharan Africa are truly high, determine the factors which influence costs and performance of irrigation projects, and recommend cost-reducing and performance-enhancing options to make irrigation investments in the region more attractive. It analyzes 314 irrigation projects implemented from 1967 to 2003 in 50 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America funded by the World Bank, African Development Bank and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.