Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Banken
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeTransforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia
cg.creator.identifierMarie-Charlotte Buisson: 0000-0002-2111-1864
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac914fen
cg.identifier.iwmilibraryH051438
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1748-9326en
cg.issue10en
cg.journalEnvironmental Research Lettersen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.volume17en
dc.contributor.authorBalasubramanya, Soumyaen
dc.contributor.authorBuisson, Marie-Charlotteen
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-30T23:49:51Zen
dc.date.available2022-09-30T23:49:51Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/121996
dc.titlePositive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from Indiaen
dcterms.abstractIndia is the world's largest user of groundwater, the bulk of which is used for irrigation (Hirji et al 2017). Groundwater-based irrigation was an enabling factor for the Green Revolution, which has increased food security and reduced poverty; but with abstraction exceeding recharge, 28% of administrative blocks in India have aquifers classified as over-exploited, critical, or semi-critical (Mukherjee 2018). Governments have recently been attempting to use positive incentives to reward farmers for reducing abstraction, but such policy approaches often ignore the presence of informal groundwater markets (IGMs), where wells owners supply irrigation services to other farmers for a charge, in addition to irrigating their own fields. IGMs may undermine incentive programs; and implementing incentive programs in the presence of IGMs may have unintended welfare consequences. Better data and research on IGMs is needed for managing groundwater in India.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2022-09-23
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBalasubramanya, S.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte. 2022. Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India. Environmental Research Letters, 17(10):101001. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac914f]en
dcterms.extent17(10):101001en
dcterms.issued2022-10-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherIOP Publishingen
dcterms.subjectgroundwater managementen
dcterms.subjectwater marketen
dcterms.subjectincentivesen
dcterms.subjectgroundwater extractionen
dcterms.subjectgroundwater depletionen
dcterms.subjectgroundwater irrigationen
dcterms.subjectwellsen
dcterms.subjectpumpsen
dcterms.subjectwater chargesen
dcterms.subjectfarmersen
dcterms.subjectenergyen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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