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| Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray; Ford, Stuart; Bywater, Tony; Bright, John; Thorrold, Bruce S.. |
| The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is a tradeoff between the amount of irrigated area and the reliability with which it can be undertaken. Overseas studies have generated a curve with optimum levels of allocation which maximise the economic return to the community from the resource. The study on which this paper is based used a single case study to model the individual and regional economic outcomes for four scenarios of water allocation, using daily time step simulation models of the hydrological,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Irrigation; Reliability; Regional economic impacts; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Financial Economics; Institutional and Behavioral Economics; Land Economics/Use; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/98516 |
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| Ford, Stuart. |
| This is a summary of two projects that were designed to investigate the cost effectiveness associated with adoption of farm management practices designed to reduce discharges to water and greenhouse gas emissions. The first report had the purpose of expressing the results as the financial cost to the case study farm per kg of nutrient discharge reduction achieved, or per mm of water use saved (per year) i.e., the cost-effectiveness of the measures. This second extension of that work had the objectives to both; further scope the research context and parameters and refine and expand the modeling capability. The full range of 11 mitigation options were modeled over the 5 Dairy, 13 Sheep and Beef and 2 Deer Monitoring Models. The results in terms of Nitrogen... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/115510 |
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| Ford, Stuart; Harris, Simon; Doak, Murray. |
| This paper reports a research project carried out on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry New Zealand designed to scope the issue of water efficiency in New Zealand and demonstrate where the most significant gains in efficiency can occur. The paper describes the efficiency framework developed based on the key areas of allocative, technical and dynamic efficiency. The areas of significant gains based on the theoretical analysis are tested against three community irrigation schemes. Although the case study findings support the theoretical conclusions there is a significant range of potential areas of improvement according to the nature of each case study. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Technical; Allocative; Dynamic efficiency; Framework; Case studies.. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48056 |
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