Transferring irrigation management to farmer's associations: Evidence from the Philippines

Water Policy

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 444-460

  Bandyopadhyay, Sushenjit ^b   Shyamsundar, Priya ^a   Xie, Mei ^b  

^a SANDEE   (Thailand)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Farmer associations; Impact evaluation; Irrigation management transfer; Philippines; Production function

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957561547     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wp.2009.111     Document Type: Article

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