Water Resources in the Asia‐Pacific Region: Managing Scarcity

Rosegrant, Mark W.; Meinzen‐Dick, Ruth

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8411.1996.tb00015.x

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“…Poor performance has been caused by the failure of public agencies to collect funds from farmers to support operation and maintenance (Easter, 1990;Johnson, 1990;Gulati et al, 1994;Maskey & Weber, 1998), inappropriate water pricing and allocation policies that fail to encourage ef® cient water use (Prasad & Rao, 1991;Sampath, 1992;Saleth, 1994;Meinzen-Dick & Mendoza, 1996;Rosegrant & Meinzen-Dick, 1996), and extensive waterlogging and salinization of irrigated lands (Rhoades, 1990;Smedema, 1990; Barrow, 1991;Dregne, 1991;Szabolcs, 1992; W orld Bank, 1992; Ghassemi et al, 1995;Abdel-Dayem, 1997;UNEP, 1997).…”

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Economic Efficiency and Irrigation Water Policy with an Example from Egypt

Wichelns¹

1999

International Journal of Water Resources Development

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Irrigation water policies can be enhanced by considering the economic dimensions of farm-level decisions and public goals regarding limited land and water resources. The de® nitions of three ef® ciency term s used to describe the performance of irrigation system sÐ irrigation,water use and economic ef® ciencyÐ are reviewed, with a focus on the unique role of econom ic ef® ciency in policy analysis. Policies that m odify econom ic p arameters can m otivate farmers to choose crops and irrigation methods that are consistent with p ublic goals. Such policies include water prices or allotments, subsidies for im proving irrigation methods, and the removal of output p rice distortions that favour crops with large water requirements in water-short regions. An ex am ple of econom ic issues regarding water policy in the N ile Valley and Delta is included.

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Economic Efficiency and Irrigation Water Policy with an Example from Egypt

Wichelns¹

1999

International Journal of Water Resources Development

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“…Other damages associated with intensification in lowland agriculture include nutrient decline, salinisation, acidification, groundwater depletion, and the water pollution consequences of agricultural runoff (for a more detailed review, see Rosegrant and Meinzen‐Dick 1996).…”

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Development and the Environment in Asia

Coxhead¹

2003

Asian-Pac Economic Lit

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Economic growth and environmental damage are associated, but the relationship is neither linear nor even monotonic. This is clearly seen in the diverse experiences of tropical Asian economies over recent decades. The nature of the growth–environment link depends on the changing composition of production and on growth‐related changes in techniques and environmental policies; the enforcement of property rights over natural resources and over air and water quality is another important element. Moreover, environmental and economic policies interact: in effect, every economic policy that affects resource allocation is a de facto environmental measure. One important implication is that the environmental consequences of major policy shifts, such as the ‘globalisation’ of many tropical Asian economies since about 1980, have been profound. The analytical literature on growth and the environment in Asia tends to agree that environmental damage is costly to regional economies, and has begun to identify and quantify some of the many causal linkages now recognised between economic development and the valuation and use of environmental and natural resource assets.

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“…The re-use of wastewater will similarly make an important contribution only in arid regions such as the Middle East where the cost of new water supplies is very high. Water harvesting (the capture and diversion of rainfall or £oodwater to ¢elds to irrigate crops) will be important in some local and regional ecosytems, but will not have a signi¢cant impact on global food production and water scarcity (Rosegrant 1995;Rosegrant and Meinzen-Dick 1996).…”

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World food markets into the 21st century: environmental and resource constraints and policies

Rosegrant

Ringler

1997

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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Projections of global food supply and demand to the year 2020 indicate that food production in the aggregate is likely to keep pace with growing populations and incomes, and that real food prices will be stable or slowly declining. This article examines the possible environmental and resource constraints to long-term food production growth and explores the implications of these possible constraints for food and resource policies. The article reviews and synthesises the evidence on biophysical limits to crop productivity; plant genetic resources and biotechnology; the availability of plant nutrients; soil and land degradation; the increasing scarcity and declining quality of water; and the impact of global climate change on agriculture.

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Water Resources in the Asia‐Pacific Region: Managing Scarcity

Cited by 23 publications

References 16 publications

Economic Efficiency and Irrigation Water Policy with an Example from Egypt

Economic Efficiency and Irrigation Water Policy with an Example from Egypt

Development and the Environment in Asia

World food markets into the 21st century: environmental and resource constraints and policies

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