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Prices, loans or ambiguity? Factors influencing groundwater irrigation adoption in Ethiopia

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Title Prices, loans or ambiguity? Factors influencing groundwater irrigation adoption in Ethiopia
 
Creator International Water Management Institute
 
Subject groundwater irrigation
farmer-led irrigation
water pricing
loans
pumps
private ownership
groundwater extraction
boreholes
wells
water drilling
solar energy
irrigated land
climate change
forecasting
policies
hunger
smallholders
 
Description Governments in sub-Saharan Africa promote the expansion of irrigation to improve food security, primarily through the adoption and use of groundwater-based smallholder private irrigation. Using the case of Ethiopia, we examine farmers’ willingness to adopt smallholder private irrigation packages in response to subsidies on pump prices, loan availability and reduction in ambiguities related to borehole drilling. The results of the research highlight that subsidizing pump prices may not be the best use of public funds to expand irrigation. Instead, decreasing ambiguities around borehole drilling is likely to play a significant role and is a cost-effective step toward expanding groundwater-based irrigation and increasing the adoption of pumps by small-scale farmers. The policy implication is that the government should help farmers minimize the uncertainties and cost of unsuccessful drilling. This will require the government to study groundwater hydrogeology, use information on groundwater depth, seasonality and recharge to drill boreholes, and absorb the costs of unsuccessful drilling.
 
Date 2021-12-07
2021-12-08T15:30:28Z
2021-12-08T15:30:28Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 2021. Prices, loans or ambiguity? Factors influencing groundwater irrigation adoption in Ethiopia. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 4p. (IWMI Water Policy Brief 42) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2021.225]
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/116604
https://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/Water_Policy_Briefs/PDF/wpb42.pdf
https://doi.org/10.5337/2021.225
H050809
 
Language en
 
Relation IWMI Water Policy Brief 42
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 4p.
 
Publisher International Water Management Institute (IWMI)