Applications for such permission should be addressed to: Chief Publishing Management Service Information Division FAO Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, Italy or by to: FAO 2004ĥ Contents Preface vii Executive summary ix The water resources management problem ix An integrated framework to water resource valuation, appraisal and management x 1. Reproduction of material in this information product for resale or other commercial purposes is prohibited without written permission of the copyright holders. Reproduction and dissemination of material in this information product for educational or other non-commercial purposes are authorized without any prior written permission from the copyright holders provided the source is fully acknowledged. Marcus Moench Copies of FAO publications can be requested from: SALES AND MARKETING GROUP Information Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla Rome, Italy Fax: (+39) Web site:ģ Economic valuation of water resources in agriculture From the sectoral to a functional perspective of natural resource management FAO WATER REPORTS 27 by Kerry Turner Stavros Georgiou Rebecca Clark Roy Brouwer Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research University of East Anglia, Norwich United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Jacob Burke FAO Land and Water Development Division FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS Rome, 2004Ĥ The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. ISBN ISSN TC/M/Y5582E/1/10.04/1000 FAO 9 Economic valuation of water resources in agriculture From the sectoral to a functional perspective of natural resource management Economic valuation of water resources in agriculture ISSN FAO WATER REPORTSĢ Cover photograph: Farmer pumping groundwater, Gujarat, India. This report reviews the large set of literature on the subject and makes the case for the adoption of a functional approach to water valuation as a basis for such negotiation. The allocations of raw water to agriculture (and the allocations within the agriculture sector) all need to be negotiated in a transparent way.
1 FAO WATER REPORTS 27 From the sectoral to a functional perspective of natural resource management Agriculture is coming under more and more pressure to justify its use of the world's freshwater resources and to improve its productive and environmental performance.
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