Water and Agriculture [electronic resource]: Sustainability, Markets and Policies /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
OECD Workshop on Water and Agriculture Sustainability, Markets, and Policies(2005 :Adelaide, S. Aust.)
OECD Workshop on Water and Agriculture
Australia.Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry.
Parris, Kevin.
Poincet, Theresa.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2006.
Agriculture is a major user of water and is responsible for much of its pollution. But the agricultural sector faces increasing competition for scarce water supplies from urban and industrial users and, increasingly, to sustain ecosystems.  This conference proceedings explores how both governments and the private sector can expand the role of markets to allocate water used by all sectors and to get agricultural producers to account for the pollution that their sector generates.
"These proceedings bring together papers from the OECD Workshop on Water and Agriculture ... held on 14-18 November 2005 in Adelaide, Australia."--Acknowledgements.
Edited by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, with OECD input from Kevin Parris and Theresa Poincet.
Includes bibliographical references.
Allocation of Costs and Benefits in the Water Framework Directive -- Meeting Environmental Outcomes -- Balancing Consumptive and Environmental Water Use – An Australian Perspective -- Paddy Field Characteristics in Water Use -- Developing Economic Arrangements for Water Resources Management – The Potential of Stakeholder-oriented Water Valuation -- Challenges of Water for Food, People and Environment – ICID's Initiative on “Country Policy Support Programme” -- The Spanish Programme of Improvement and Modernisation of Traditional Irrigation Systems -- Nutrient Trading -- Can Water Allocation Buy-back Schemes be Equitable for Impacted Communities? -- China's Agricultural Water Policy Reforms -- Japanese Water Management System from an Economic Perspective -- Water Quantity and Quality Issues in Mediterranean Agriculture -- Assessing the Feasibility of Water Quality Trading to Address Agricultural Sources of Pollution in Canada -- The Challenge of Reconciling Water and Agricultural Policies – The Role of Public Hearings -- Sustainable Nitrogen Management in Agriculture -- Italian Policy Framework for Water in Agriculture -- Highlights -- The Spanish National Irrigation Plan -- Address by Senator Ian Macdonald -- Progress with Water Allocation Reform in South Africa -- Water and Soil Management System for Water Conservation in a Watershed -- An Australian Perspective on Water Reform -- Using Good Economic Principles to make Irrigators become True Partners of Water and Environmental Policies -- Institutional Overview from an Australian Perspective – With Particular Reference to the Murray-Darling Basin -- New Zealand's Sustainable Water Programme of Action -- The Future of Agriculture and Water -- Irrigation Sustainability in the Land Use/Soil System in South Italy -- National Water Initiative – The Economics of Water Management in Australia – An Overview -- Catchment-Sensitive Farming -- Water Pricing for Agriculture between Cost Recovery and Water Conservation -- Tool for Monitoring and Evaluating the On-farm Environment Management and Nutrient Use on Finnish Cattle Farms.
Agriculture is a major user of water and is responsible for much of its pollution. But the agricultural sector faces increasing competition for scarce water supplies from urban and industrial users and, increasingly, to sustain ecosystems.  This conference proceedings explores how both governments and the private sector can expand the role of markets to allocate water used by all sectors and to get agricultural producers to account for the pollution that their sector generates.
Water-supply, Agricultural
Water in agriculture