Improving on-farm water use efficiency: Role of collective action in irrigation management

Chaudhry, Anita M.

doi:10.1016/j.wre.2017.06.001

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“…Leadership and social capital are seen as crucial in establishing a dialogue for conflict resolution, which was one of the common practices in this case. Strengthening the leadership could constitute a powerful tool [29,63], as this can establish goals, coordination activities, monitoring, dispute resolution, and sanctions [64,65].…”

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Governing Water Resource Allocation: Water User Association Characteristics and the Role of the State

Engler

Melo

Rodríguez

et al. 2021

Water

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Water, as a common pool resource, is threatened by the possibility of overextraction generating a negative economic impact, conflicts among users, and greater income inequality. Scholars have discussed different governance approaches to deal with this threat, including centralized governance and self-governance, and lately, special attention has been paid to the interactions between formal institutions (the state) and local water user associations and how this promotes self-governance. The aim of this paper was to examine the adoption of Ostrom’s design principles present in the legal norms dictated in the Chilean Water Code by water user associations and to analyze the roles of their size, community homogeneity, and perceived water stress on adopting legal norms. The results showed that water communities generally follow the rules established in the Water Code, but the voting system, distribution of water, and fee payment are adjusted in small and homogenous water user associations. We can also conclude that a cornerstone in the system is implementing graduated sanctions, as water users see the tools provided by the Water Code as ineffective.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Governing Water Resource Allocation: Water User Association Characteristics and the Role of the State

Engler

Melo

Rodríguez

et al. 2021

Water

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“…Most of the water user group (WUG) was hardly successful in meeting expected outcomes (Faysse et al , 2020; Kumnerdpet and Sinclair, 2010; Palmer-Jones et al , 2012). Similar studies on collective action for PIM used socio-demographic factors, farm characteristics, water scarcity, irrigation infrastructure and political factors with collective action problems (Araral, 2009; Chaudhry, 2018; Nagrah et al , 2016; Ricks, 2015). However, the non-excludability nature of irrigation allows water access even without active participation in collective maintenance activities.…”

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Bonding and bridging social capital towards collective action in participatory irrigation management. Evidence in Chiang Rai Province, Northern Thailand

Llones

Mankeb

Wongtragoon

et al. 2021

IJSE

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of social capital with bonding and bridging distinction in promoting higher participation in collective action in participatory irrigation management.Design/methodology/approachA sample of 304 farmers was surveyed using a structured questionnaire. A focus group discussion was also carried out with randomly selected water users, leaders and irrigation officers. A confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling were used to test the hypothesised relationship of bonding and bridging social capital towards collective action.FindingsThe findings show that social capital has a significant direct effect on collective action and an indirect effect on joint irrigation management's perceived performance through collective action (mediator). It implies the need to complement the participatory irrigation management programme with an understanding of the social aspects for a higher farmer's participation over the shared resource.Originality/valueThe paper emphasises social capital's role in facilitating a real participatory engagement in shared resource management. Also, it is the first scholarly work linking social capital with bonding and bridging distinction towards collective action in a joint resource management context.

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“…In the context of the increasing concerns on the resource efficiency, water economics has become a topical issue (Drysdale & Hendricks, 2018;McCarl & Hertel, 2018;Sears & Lawell, 2019). The strategies for sustainable use of water in the context of crop production and agriculture in general have been outlined in the European Union (Richard et al, 2018;Papadimitriou et al, 2019;Tsolakis et al, 2018) and the other regions (Chaudhry, 2018;Bae & Dall' erba, 2018;Xu & Lowe, 2018). In order to adapt to the climate change, the modelling of water systems and economic activities is needed (Dainys et al, 2019;Schönhart et al, 2018).…”

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Economy-Water Nexus in Agricultural Sector: Decomposing Dynamics in Water Footprint by the Lmdi

Chen

Baležentis

et al. 2020

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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Traditional economic activities induce environmental pressures. In order to ensure sustainable economic growth, one needs to decouple it from the environmental pressures. Sustainable growth of the agricultural sector is topical in the sense that economic activity supports rural populations, whereas the resulting environmental pressures may affect diverse groups of population. Thus, the analysis of water footprint related to crop farming is important in the sense of efficient resource use and sustainable development of agriculture in general. In this paper, we focus on Lithuanian crop farming and the related green and grey water footprints. Specifically, we decompose the changes in the water footprints during 2000–2016 by exploiting the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index. Due to the expansion of the areas harvested, the scale effect appeared as an important driver of growth in green and grey water footprints. The shifts in spatial distribution of area harvested virtually had no influence on the dynamics in either of the water footprints. The crop-mix effect was much higher for the grey water footprint (51% over the period of 2000–2015) than it was the case for the green water footprint (21%). The yield growth induced growth in both green and grey water footprints.

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Improving on-farm water use efficiency: Role of collective action in irrigation management

Cited by 24 publications

References 23 publications

Governing Water Resource Allocation: Water User Association Characteristics and the Role of the State

Governing Water Resource Allocation: Water User Association Characteristics and the Role of the State

Bonding and bridging social capital towards collective action in participatory irrigation management. Evidence in Chiang Rai Province, Northern Thailand

Economy-Water Nexus in Agricultural Sector: Decomposing Dynamics in Water Footprint by the Lmdi

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