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Farmer-Financed Irrigation: The Economics of Reform

Farmer-Financed Irrigation: The Economics of Reform

Small, Leslie E.
Carruthers, Ian

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Series: Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development

Technology & EngineeringEnvironmental Studies

ISBN10: 052106208X
ISBN13: 9780521062084
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: May 15 2008
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this book, Leslie Small and Ian Carruthers examine in detail the potentials and limitations of user fees for financing irrigation operation and maintenance. Both authors have extensive field experience in irrigation in developing countries and have combined this experience with simple concepts of economics to examine possible institutional and financial reforms that would not simply ask farmers to pay for an inadequate irrigation service, but would create the potential for significant improvements in the quality of the service provided. The proposed elements of any such reform are discussed in depth--a system of user fees covering the recurrent costs of irrigation; a financially autonomous irrigation agency that can retain and use the fees to operate and maintain the irrigation facilities; and a macro policy environment that is not unduly skewed against the agricultural sector.

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