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1 Balasubramanya, S.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte. 2022. Positive incentives for managing groundwater in the presence of informal water markets: perspectives from India. Environmental Research Letters, 17(10):101001. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac914f]
Groundwater management ; Water market ; Incentives ; Groundwater extraction ; Groundwater depletion ; Groundwater irrigation ; Wells ; Pumps ; Water charges ; Farmers ; Energy / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051438)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac914f/pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051438.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051438.pdf
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2 Balasubramanya, S.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Mitra, Archisman; Stifel, D. 2023. Price, credit or ambiguity? Increasing small-scale irrigation in Ethiopia. World Development, 163:106149. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106149]
Small-scale irrigation ; Smallholders ; Farmer-led irrigation ; Groundwater irrigation ; Pumps ; Prices ; Credit ; Boreholes ; Water drilling ; Taxes ; Loans / Africa South of Sahara / Ethiopia / Amhara / Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051554)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22003394/pdfft?md5=77d5c3eab1cf338b2c855edce5cc7cc1&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X22003394-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051554.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051554.pdf
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Governments in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are keen to expand irrigation to improve food security and are placing particular emphasis on adoption and use of smallholder private groundwater irrigation. Yet private irrigation is a multi-stage technology, the adoption of which is affected by fiscal support and extension services offered on different investment stages but also by uncertainties around actions that need to be undertaken in these stages. Groundwater-based irrigation in Ethiopia presents a case where policy has focused on fiscally easing the purchase of pumps while considerable ambiguity (unquantifiable uncertainty) exists around the outcomes of drilling boreholes (reaching water). In this paper, we examine farmers’ willingness to adopt smallholder private irrigation packages in response to lower pump prices following tax breaks, loan availability, and reduction in ambiguities related to borehole drilling, using a discrete choice experiment (DCE) in two districts of Ethiopia. The results indicate that the provision of loans and reduction in ambiguities related to well drilling have the greatest effect on the probability of farmers adopting irrigation packages. Lowering pump prices has the smallest effect. Pump-type has a small effect, with energized pumps preferred over manual ones. In exploring heterogeneity in preferences, we find that farmers without irrigated plots and those with greater market access have a greater preference for the provision of loans, while those with greater market access also have greater preferences for reductions in well drilling ambiguities. The results of this choice experiment suggest that reducing ambiguities around well drilling (initial investments) is an essential and cost-effective step toward expanding groundwater-based irrigation in Ethiopia.
3 Balasubramanya, S.; Garrick, D.; Brozovic, N.; Ringler, C.; Zaveri, E.; Rodella, A.-S.; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Schmitter, Petra; Durga, Neha; Kishore, A.; Minh, Thai Thi; Kafle, K.; Stifel, D.; Balasubramanya, S.; Chandra, A.; Hope, L. 2024. Risks from solar-powered groundwater irrigation. Science, 383(6680):256-258. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adi9497]
Groundwater irrigation ; Solar powered irrigation systems ; Pumps ; Emission reduction ; Water use ; Carbon / India
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H052565)
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