Farmer-Financed Irrigation : The Economics of Reform (Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development)

Farmer-Financed Irrigation : The Economics of Reform (Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development)

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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.

Farmer-Financed Irrigation: The Economics of Reform (Wye Studies in Agricultural and Rural Development),Leslie E. Small,Ian Carruthers,Alan Buckwell,Hassan Hakimian,Jonathan Kydd,John Prescott,Cambridge University Press,0521380731,Agricultural Finance,Agricultural Irrigation,Agriculture - General,Business / Economics / Finance,Developing countries,Finance,Irrigation,Real Estate - General,Science/Mathematics,Technology,Development economics,Nature / Natural Resources,Tropical agriculture: practice & techniques

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