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Conservation credits: A pilot of financial incentives to reduce groundwater use in smallholder agriculture

Project report 9 Jan 2019 Energy

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  • Promoting energy and water efficiency in irrigation through direct and indirect incentives

Authors

Nick Hagerty

Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ariel Zucker

Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California - Santa Cruz
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