کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4479611 1316451 2009 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Estimating the impacts of water pricing on smallholder irrigators in North West Province, South Africa
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم زراعت و اصلاح نباتات
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Estimating the impacts of water pricing on smallholder irrigators in North West Province, South Africa
چکیده انگلیسی

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 farm profit. This appears to be a problem primarily for the poorer farmers.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Agricultural Water Management - Volume 96, Issue 11, November 2009, Pages 1560–1566
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