Securing Water for Agriculture : A Guide to Investment Decisions
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How can the world grow more food,
increase incomes, reduce poverty, and protect the
environment with growing numbers of mouths to feed and
increasingly constrained resources? A big part of the answer
lies in better management of agricultural water.
Agricultural water management (AWM) encompasses irrigation
on both a large and small scale, drainage of irrigated and
rain fed areas, watershed restoration, recycling of water,
rainwater harvesting, and better in-field water management
practices. There is considerable scope for improving returns
on water from agricultural use. The key economic challenge
is to set up an incentive framework that encourages
efficient water use and profitable high value agriculture.
Evidence indicates that such a framework improves efficiency
and accountability, raises productivity, and promotes
sustainable and environmentally responsible resource use. At
the same time, irrigation schemes pose a financial
challenge: to recover costs at a rate sufficient to finance
services to farmers. The broad challenge is to encourage
both large- and small-scale private investment.
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AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION, AGRICULTURAL POLICY, AGRICULTURAL WATER, AGRICULTURAL WATER USE, ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS, AQUIFER, BROAD RANGE, CAPACITY BUILDING, CLIMATE CHANGE, CLIMATIC CONDITIONS, COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP, COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE, COMPETITION FOR WATER, COST RECOVERY, COST SHARING, DEMAND FOR WATER, DEMAND MANAGEMENT, DRAINAGE, DROUGHT, DRYLANDS, ECONOMIC INCENTIVES, EFFICIENT WATER USE, ENVIRONMENTAL, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, FINANCIAL RESOURCES, FLOODS, FOOD PRODUCTION, FOOD SECURITY, FOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY, GROUNDWATER, GROUNDWATER DEPLETION, GROUNDWATER IRRIGATION, INCOME, INVESTMENT COSTS, INVESTMENT DECISIONS, IRRIGATION MANAGEMENT, IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, MARGINAL AREAS, PARTICIPATORY APPROACHES, POLICY DECISIONS, POLITICAL ECONOMY, POLLUTION, PRODUCTIVITY, RAINWATER, RAINWATER HARVESTING, RECYCLING, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, RESOURCE USE, RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, SCARCE WATER, SERVICE PROVIDER, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE WATER, SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT, TRADEOFFS, TRANSACTION COSTS, WATER INVESTMENTS, WATER MANAGEMENT, WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, WATER QUALITY, WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT, WATER RESOURCES, WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, WATER SECTOR, WATER SERVICE, WATER SERVICE DELIVERY, WATER SOURCES, WATER SUPPLY, WATER USE, WATERSHED