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1 Ghazouani, Wafa; Molle, Francois; Swelam, A.; Rap, Edwin; Abdo, A. 2014. Understanding farmers’ adaptation to water scarcity: a case study from the western Nile Delta, Egypt. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 31p. (IWMI Research Report 160) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2015.200]
Water scarcity ; Water availability ; Deltas ; Canals ; Farmers ; Adaptation ; Conflict ; Crop management ; Yields ; Irrigation water ; Irrigated farming ; Food security ; Drainage water ; Pumps ; Cost benefit analysis ; Profitability ; Case studies / Egypt / Nile Delta
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046836)
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This study was undertaken to analyze farmers’ adaption to water scarcity in the command area of a secondary canal in the Nile Delta of Egypt. The results revealed that farmers’ responses were driven by a multiplicity of factors, beyond water scarcity or profit maximization. These additional factors include food security of the family, risk management, social capital and history of farmers, and most unexpectedly the collective dimension of crop choice. The findings of this study expose the limitations of projects, modeling exercises or policy recommendations that are too often based on the oversimplified view of profit maximization as the basis of farming system dynamics.
2 Dessalegn, B.; Abd-Allah, E.; Salem, S.; Swelam, A.; Yigezu, Y. A. 2022. Explaining shifts in adaptive water management using a gendered multi-level perspective (MLP): a case study from the Nile Delta of Egypt. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 19p. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/14735903.2022.2082765]
Water management ; Adaptation ; Gender ; Irrigation water ; Climate change ; Farmers ; Water availability ; Water scarcity ; Water user associations ; Private sector ; Policies ; Strategies ; Farmland ; Soil salinity ; Population growth ; Households ; Women ; Case studies / Egypt / Nile Delta / Kafr El-Sheikh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051356)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14735903.2022.2082765
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051356.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051356.pdf
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Understanding the logic behind farmers' choice of adaptive water management practice is important to appreciate the opportunities and challenges they face and to scale targeted solutions effectively. This paper aims to understand the main drivers of change that induce adaptation in water management. The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) framework that juxtaposed the within and across micro-, meso-, and macro-level drivers was applied to a case study of the Nile Delta to identify key drivers of change and farmers' adaptive responses. The framework helped in contextualizing key gender, temporal, and spatial dimensions of the drivers, and to identify their individual and interactive effects on farmers' adaptation decisions. We find that farmers' gender-differential water management choices are influenced not only by the individual changes in the three spheres of influence but also their interactions. The study highlights the benefits of using MLP to identify challenges that should often be tackled simultaneously to improve agricultural water delivery and use. We demonstrated that adaptation choices in water management are more sustainable when farmers' decisions are supported by enabling environments, including local regulations, norms, national institutional frameworks, and policies. They are also informed by and responsive to global trends such as climate change and markets.
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