Agricultural land investments and water management in the office du Niger, Mali: options for improved water pricing | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
Diciembre 2016
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
handle:10568/77241
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Large-scale agricultural land investments in Africa are often considered solely from the land perspective. Yet land, water and other natural resources are closely interlinked in agricultural production and in sustaining rural livelihoods. Such investments involving irrigation will potentially have implications for water availability and utilization by other users, making it imperative to regard water as an economic rather than a free good. Focusing on a vast irrigable area in Mali with recent large-scale investments, a bio-economic model was used to demonstrate that an improved water valuation system is needed to balance different water users’ needs while ensuring adequate environmental flow.

Autores y editores

Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

Sidibe, Y.
Williams, Timothy O.

Proveedor de datos

CGIAR (CGIAR)

CGIAR is the only worldwide partnership addressing agricultural research for development, whose work contributes to the global effort to tackle poverty, hunger and major nutrition imbalances, and environmental degradation.


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