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Valuating agricultural water use and ecological services in agrarian economies: evidences from eastern India

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Title Valuating agricultural water use and ecological services in agrarian economies: evidences from eastern India
 
Creator Xenarios, Stefanos
Amarasinghe, Upali A.
Sharma, Bharat R.
 
Subject irrigation water
water use
economic aspects
valuation
land ownership
 
Description In Xenarios, Stefanos; Sharma, Bharat R.; Amarasinghe, Upali; Singh, A. Research analysis on the effects of agricultural water and landholdings to rural livelihoods in Indo-Gangetic Basin: with emphasis on Bihar State. [Report of the NAIP-IFAD Project on Water and Rural Livelihoods]. New Delhi, India: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Bihar, India: Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for Eastern Region
Agricultural water use in agrarian economies is often state subsidized for the enhancement of agricultural productivity while poverty alleviation is also targeted. The Indian agricultural dependent states offer representative examples of undervalued irrigation services mainly sourced by canal networks. However, the current inefficient operation of canal irrigation systems diverts water demand to private initiatives by significantly increasing economic value of agricultural water. The additional recent acknowledgement of economic value encompassed in supportive ecological services enhances the request for reevaluation of agricultural water. The paper attempts to assess the value of irrigation and related ecological services in representative backward clusters of Bihar state in Eastern India. The effects on different landholding groups are analyzed by giving particular emphasis to marginal landholders.
 
Date 2011
2014-06-13T14:29:16Z
2014-06-13T14:29:16Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier Xenarios, Stefanos; Amarasinghe, Upali; Sharma, Bharat R. 2011. Valuating agricultural water use and ecological services in agrarian economies: evidences from eastern India. In Xenarios, Stefanos; Sharma, Bharat R.; Amarasinghe, Upali; Singh, A. Research analysis on the effects of agricultural water and landholdings to rural livelihoods in Indo-Gangetic Basin: with emphasis on Bihar State. [Report of the NAIP-IFAD Project on Water and Rural Livelihoods]. New Delhi, India: International Water Management Institute (IWMI); Bihar, India: Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) for Eastern Region. 21p.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/39709
https://publications.iwmi.org/pdf/H043778.pdf
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access