Agricultural Land Investments and Water Management in the Office du Niger, Mali : Options for Improved Water Pricing

Sidibé ; , Yoro ; Williams, Timothy O.

Taylor and Francis

关键词: water scarcity;    efficiency;    equity;    environmental flows;    water basin;   

DOI  :  10.1080/02508060.2016.1178900
RP-ID  :  108332

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

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.