Theme Overview: Inducing Water Conservation in Agriculture: Institutional and Behavioral Drivers

Madhu Khanna and David Zilberman

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2017, vol. 32, issue 4

Abstract: Irrigated agriculture is a major user of surface and groundwater. The articles in this theme discuss the drivers of irrigation water management choices by farmers and the role that climatic conditions, public policies, institutions, and behavioral factors play in inducing water conservation and increasing water use efficiency in agriculture.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.264597

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