Linking water market functioning, access to water resources and farmproduction strategies: example from Pakistan

As a response to inadequacy in canal water supplies, farmers in Pakistan have invested in private tubewells to control irrigation water resources. Also, they participate in surface water and groundwater markets that take place within tertiary units of the irrigation system. The present paper describes the functioning and organization of thesewater markets, using information collected in sample watercourses ofthe Fordwah Branch irrigation system, South-Punjab, Pakistan. The variability in type and intensity of water markets is investigated withregard to access to water resources and farm production strategies and constraints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]