The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of irrigation delivery services and agricultural extension services on crop choice in southern Tajikistan. This analysis is motivated by the government’s recent efforts to address the country’s severe malnutrition problem by supporting changes in irr...
Buisson, Marie-Charlotte
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Balasubramanya, Soumya
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[The effect of irrigation service delivery and training in agronomy on crop choice in Tajikistan]
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The effect of irrigation service delivery and training in agronomy on crop choice in Tajikistan
This paper examines whether longer training increases farm participation in community-managed water user associations, in a context where assignment to training duration was not randomized and none of these institutions existed before training began. We also examine whether participation is affec...
Balasubramanya, Soumya
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[Effects of training duration and the role of gender on farm articipation in water user associations in southern Tajikistan: implications for irrigation management]
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Effects of training duration and the role of gender on farm articipation in water user associations in southern Tajikistan: implications for irrigation management
Conducting rigorous evaluations of whether the process of creating new institutions affects their performance of mandated duties presents several challenges. Not only is assignment to process often not random, but when the process of creating new institutions starts, outcomes and other performanc...
Balasubramanya, Soumya
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Price, Joseph P.G.
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Horbulyk, Theodore M.
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[Impacts assessments without true baselines: assessing the relative effects of training on the performance of water user associations in southern Tajikistan]
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Impacts assessments without true baselines: assessing the relative effects of training on the performance of water user associations in southern Tajikistan