Securing Water for Agriculture : A Guide to Investment Decisions

Securing Water for Agriculture : A Guide to Investment Decisions

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....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: World Bank
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
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
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/10388110/securing-water-agriculture-guide-investment-decisions
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11725

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/04/10388110/securing-water-agriculture-guide-investment-decisions
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11725

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