Irrigation Water Pricing in Tunisia: Issues for Management Transparency

Spatial Hedonic Pricing Models for the Valuation of Irrigation Water

The main objective of this work is to apply the hedonic pricing method using the methodology of spatial econometrics in order to assess the economic value of irrigation water, as one of the individual attributes of the value of agricultural land parcels. Most of the agricultural land’s value attributes, like neighbor characteristics as well as the availability of irrigation water, exhibit a spa...

Irrigation pricing policies and its impact on agricultural inputs demand in Tunisia: a DEA-based methodology.

This paper estimates farmers' individual irrigation water demand functions employing the information hidden in individual farmers' technical efficiency. This information is extracted through the development of a new deductive methodology based on inverse Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models. The empirical results for Tunisia show that farmers who are more technically efficient have less elast...

Pricing Irrigation Water in Mexico: Efficiency, Equity and Revenue Considerations

The withdrawal of water for i r r igat ion in the d ryer regions of Mexico already accounts for some 91% of potential availabil i ty. Fur ther expansion of i r r igated acreage, therefore, must re ly more on increased water use efficiency ra ther than increased supply from engineering works. A pr ime ins t rument to br ing about such an improvement could be an appropriate water pr ic ing s t ru...

Irrigation Water Pricing: Differential Impacts on Irrigated Farms

European water policy, as set out in the Water Framework Directive (WFD), requires all EU Member States to implement volumetric water pricing at rates that roughly cover the total costs of providing water services. The objective of this paper is to develop a methodology that, for the different farmtypes in an irrigable area, will enable us to analyse the differential impact that a pricing polic...

Small - Scale Irrigation : Design Issues in Government - Assisted Systems Water Management Synthesis H Project