Households’ willingness to pay for soil conservation on communal lands: application of the contingent valuation method in north eastern Ethiopia

Belay, Gurja; Ketema, Mengistu; Hasen, Musa

doi:10.1080/09640568.2020.1717933

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“…With the current annual population growth rate of 6%, the city population will double within 14 years and it has a great parallel result on solid waste generation and composition change [25,26]. Increase the population growth from time to time with quantity of economic activities in the cities urbanized and urbanizing areas generate a proportional amount of waste products [27][28][29]. However, SWM in Gondar is far from adequately organized, and is collected in traditional ways, in which people providing the service in the city use their family members [30].…”

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Analysis of Households' Willingness to Pay for Improved Solid Waste Management Services in Gondar city, Ethiopia: Evidence from a double-bounded Dichotomous Contingent Valuation Method

Wegedie¹,

Eyasu²,

Yizengaw³

et al. 2020

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Background: Waste is a byproduct of human life. Nowadays, municipal solid waste is being produced in excessive amounts and in this way, both developing and developed countries are facing challenges regarding generation of waste. Economic development, urbanization and improved living standards in cities have contributed to increase in the amount and complexity of solid waste produced. Methods: this study aims to Analysis of households' willingness to pay for improved solid waste management Services in Gondar city, Ethiopia: evidence from a double-bounded dichotomous contingent Valuation Method.Result: A total of 222 randomly selected households were interviewed to address the objective of this study. Finally, the survey result indicated that 192(87.3%) of sample households were willing to pay for improved solid waste management services. Following this, the one and double-bounded dichotomous contingent valuation result revealed that the mean willingness to pay estimated from the Double Bounded dichotomous CVM and open ended formats were 34.48 and 17.0756 ETB[1] per month per households respectively. The total WTP was obtained by adding the WTP of the total households in each stratum, and is equal to 941361ETB and 1900848 ETB for open ended and double bounded format, respectively. Additionally, the bivariate probit model result demonstrated that income and education have positive and significant effects on willingness to pay bid amounts. The results, age, marital status, Bid1 and Bid2 have a negative and significant effect on households’ amount of willingness to pay for better solid waste management services. Conclusion: When allocating service charges the city municipality considers amount of solid waste generation and income level of the households. The study results show that when educational status of the households increases and increase their willing to participate in planned improved solid waste management service. Thus, awareness creation is importance for better solid waste management. Additionally the city municipality facilitates a learning media for uneducated households to come up with at least secondary education level.

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Analysis of Households' Willingness to Pay for Improved Solid Waste Management Services in Gondar city, Ethiopia: Evidence from a double-bounded Dichotomous Contingent Valuation Method

Wegedie¹,

Eyasu²,

Yizengaw³

et al. 2020

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“…The CVM has been used in different areas of application in Ethiopia, for instance to elicit households' WTP for management and conservation of forest resources, (e.g. Mekonnen 2000;Tilahun et al 2015;Endalew et al 2020), for valuation of land management and soil conservation (Asrat et al 2004;Belay 2017;Belay et al 2020;Alemu et al 2021), for provision of improved water supply (Belay 2018;Ibsa 2020;Singh 2020) and in the context of public health improvement (Entele, Emodi 2016; Minyihun et al 2019). However, among these areas of possible application of the method, this review paper focuses on studies that were conducted on local communities' willingness to pay for forest resource management and conservation in the context of developing countries, mainly in Ethiopia.…”

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Households' willingness to pay for forest conservation in Ethiopia: A review

Abdeta¹

2022

J. For. Sci.

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Environmental valuation studies in the context of developing countries have become more frequent in recent years. However, literature which reviews and examines the environmental valuation studies is limited. Thus, this paper performed a literature review on forest contingent valuation studies conducted in the Ethiopian context in the past two decades (2000 to May 2022), focusing on two specific objectives: (i) to examine amounts of resources that households are willing to pay (WTP) for forest conservation, and (ii) to identify determinants of households’ WTP. Results indicate the mean lower annual WTP of USD 0.41 (2.63 birr) and 7.04 man-days per household in money and labour time, respectively. Whereas the mean upper annual WTP of USD 53.52 per household in monetary payment and 94.34 man-days per household in labour time contribution are found for the management and conservation of forest in Ethiopia. The finding reveals that there is a limited proportion of the examined studies that included and estimated WTP in a non-monetary payment vehicle, implying a need for future researches on the topic. The result shows that demographic and socio-economic variables, physical assets ownership, institutional and infrastructural services and bid price variables were the main determinants of households’ WTP. This suggests that the forest conservation intervention program involving public participation in the country needs to consider the identified determinants of WTP in design and implementation of the program. Moreover, the finding indicates the presence of mixed results on the effect and direction in which some determinants of WTP are affected. This recommends a pressing need for comprehensive future studies on the research theme.

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“…The willingness to pay for conservation depends on preliminary survey and previous researchers such as (Etensa, 2014;Nigus, 2014;Berhan et al, 2016 andKebebew et al, 2021). Accordingly, the most important determinants are age, family size, sex, education level, experience, total land size, total livestock size, extension frequency, source of credit, wealth status, and distance of home from the main market of respondents.…”

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“…The conclusion of the present study is consistent with what would have been reported by Salomon, where age had a negative and significant impact on respondents' willingness to pay for its restoration. Similarly, willingness to pay was reported to be negatively affected by respondent age (Gebrelibanos and Endriss, 2012;Belay et al, 2020 andBerhan et al, 2021).…”

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Estimating and Identifying Factors Influencing Households' Willingness to Pay for Conservation of Washera Sheep Breed in Selected Areas of West Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia

Bezu¹,

Wase²,

Aseged³

et al. 2022

Turkish JAF Sci.Tech.

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The purpose of this study was to estimate and identify factors affecting the willingness of households to pay for conservation of Washera sheep in West Gojam, Ethiopia. This study used both primary and secondary data. A three-stage sampling method was used to collect data from 240 respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and econometric models. The two-dimensional test model used a method to determine the choice of the imputation method using double limited dichotomies. The study showed that education level, livestock size, extension contacts and credit source positively affected the maximum household’s willingness to pay for conservation of Washera sheep. On the other hand, age, sex, land size, and the distance of the home from the household’s market have negatively affected the maximum household’s willingness to pay for conservation of Washera sheep. Meanwhile, the total number of valid answers corresponds to 122,168 households. Therefore, the mean willingness to pay for Washera sheep conservation was US$ 3.75 per year and the total economic benefit gain from Washera sheep conservation were equivalent to US$1,069,647.23. The study recommends that households be willing to contribute to the conservation of Washera sheep breed by providing the cash. This ensures community participation in all decision making and formulation of plans and policies related to the conservation of Washera sheep breeds.

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Households’ willingness to pay for soil conservation on communal lands: application of the contingent valuation method in north eastern Ethiopia

Cited by 16 publications

References 28 publications

Analysis of Households' Willingness to Pay for Improved Solid Waste Management Services in Gondar city, Ethiopia: Evidence from a double-bounded Dichotomous Contingent Valuation Method

Analysis of Households' Willingness to Pay for Improved Solid Waste Management Services in Gondar city, Ethiopia: Evidence from a double-bounded Dichotomous Contingent Valuation Method

Households' willingness to pay for forest conservation in Ethiopia: A review

Estimating and Identifying Factors Influencing Households' Willingness to Pay for Conservation of Washera Sheep Breed in Selected Areas of West Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia

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