Estimating the impacts of water pricing on smallholder irrigators in North West Province, South Africa
Worldwide growing water scarcity has increased the call for economic instruments to stimulate rational water use in agriculture. Furthermore, cost-recovery is now widely accepted as a cornerstone of sustainable water management. In many developing countries, where agricultural water use is often still subsidised, water pricing policies are developed for allocating water efficiently and achieving sustainability of water systems. However, the impacts of water pricing policies on irrigation water use and on farm production systems is mostly unknown. We introduce an innovative two-stage methodology that allows estimating these effects at farm level. Applying the method to small-scale irrigators in South Africa, we show that water demand is quite responsive even to small changes in water price. In addition, the introduction of a water price significantly decreases farmprofit. This appears to be a problem primarily for the poorer farmers.
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dig-cirad-fr-5507072024-01-28T17:26:40Z http://agritrop.cirad.fr/550707/ http://agritrop.cirad.fr/550707/ Estimating the impacts of water pricing on smallholder irrigators in North West Province, South Africa. Speelman Stijn, Buysse Jeroen, Farolfi Stefano, Frija Aymen, D'Haese Marijke, D'Haese Luc. 2009. Agricultural Water Management, 96 (11) : 1560-1566.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2009.06.014 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2009.06.014> Estimating the impacts of water pricing on smallholder irrigators in North West Province, South Africa Speelman, Stijn Buysse, Jeroen Farolfi, Stefano Frija, Aymen D'Haese, Marijke D'Haese, Luc eng 2009 Agricultural Water Management P10 - Ressources en eau et leur gestion U10 - Informatique, mathématiques et statistiques F06 - Irrigation gestion des eaux eau modèle mathématique modèle de simulation prix irrigation petite exploitation agricole conservation de l'eau http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8320 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8309 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24199 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24242 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_6178 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_3954 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7113 http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_8315 Afrique du Sud http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7252 Worldwide growing water scarcity has increased the call for economic instruments to stimulate rational water use in agriculture. Furthermore, cost-recovery is now widely accepted as a cornerstone of sustainable water management. In many developing countries, where agricultural water use is often still subsidised, water pricing policies are developed for allocating water efficiently and achieving sustainability of water systems. However, the impacts of water pricing policies on irrigation water use and on farm production systems is mostly unknown. We introduce an innovative two-stage methodology that allows estimating these effects at farm level. Applying the method to small-scale irrigators in South Africa, we show that water demand is quite responsive even to small changes in water price. In addition, the introduction of a water price significantly decreases farmprofit. This appears to be a problem primarily for the poorer farmers. article info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal Article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://agritrop.cirad.fr/550707/1/document_550707.pdf application/pdf Cirad license info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess https://agritrop.cirad.fr/mention_legale.html https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2009.06.014 10.1016/j.agwat.2009.06.014 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.agwat.2009.06.014 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/purl/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2009.06.014 |
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Worldwide growing water scarcity has increased the call for economic instruments to stimulate rational water use in agriculture. Furthermore, cost-recovery is now widely accepted as a cornerstone of sustainable water management. In many developing countries, where agricultural water use is often still subsidised, water pricing policies are developed for allocating water efficiently and achieving sustainability of water systems. However, the impacts of water pricing policies on irrigation water use and on farm production systems is mostly unknown. We introduce an innovative two-stage methodology that allows estimating these effects at farm level. Applying the method to small-scale irrigators in South Africa, we show that water demand is quite responsive even to small changes in water price. In addition, the introduction of a water price significantly decreases farmprofit. This appears to be a problem primarily for the poorer farmers. |
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Estimating the impacts of water pricing on smallholder irrigators in North West Province, South Africa |
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