Small and Mid-Sized Farmer Irrigation Adoption in the Context of Public Provision of Hydric Infrastructure in Latin America and Caribbean

Villa-Cox, Gonzalo; Herrera, Paúl; Villa-Cox, Ramón; Merino-Gaibor, Elvia

doi:10.1007/s11269-017-1769-4

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“…In most LAC countries, the area under irrigation has expanded over time, and an increasing urban population will add pressure to relocate water from the agricultural sector to the urban drinking water supply (CEPAL, 2012). In addition, our results are consistent with previous reports that barriers to the adoption of innovative irrigation technologies are due to the heterogeneous socioeconomic characteristics of farmers, such as education levels and access to investment and financing credits (Villa-Cox et al, 2017). Levidow et al (2014) noted that under current conditions, agricultural water management will be maintained at the unknown WUE level, and farmers will have weaker incentives to develop more efficient practices.…”

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Water consumption by agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: impact of climate change and applications of nuclear and isotopic techniques

Salazar,

Chinchilla-Soto,

de los Santos-Villalobos

et al. 2022

IJANR

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The main aim of this review is to examine agricultural water consumption in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) regions to understand how climate change will impact water availability and how the application of nuclear and stable isotope techniques can be used as tools for improving water use efficiency (WUE) for crop production. The status of agricultural water management in some LAC countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, is also reviewed. In the LAC region, water consumption for agricultural irrigation ranged between 35% and 86% of the total available water. However, the WUE is very low in some LAC countries. Although the region, in general, has adequate water resources, there is still a need to improve WUE to increase the productivity of agricultural water. The impact of climate change in some LAC countries may lead to intensification and expansion of agricultural activity. In these areas, the WUE can be improved through soil and water conservation, minimizing soil evaporation (E), as well as through better irrigation management, especially by using an integrated approach on an area-wide basis to manage all land use activities and farming systems within an agricultural catchment. Nuclear and stable isotope techniques using Keeling Plot or IMB methods can play important roles in improving WUE in agriculture in LAC countries by providing information related to soil water losses for improving irrigation systems.

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Water consumption by agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: impact of climate change and applications of nuclear and isotopic techniques

Salazar,

Chinchilla-Soto,

de los Santos-Villalobos

et al. 2022

IJANR

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“…Alongside these issues, factors describing financial asset structures of farmers have an important role. Ullah et al (2016) and Villa-Cox et al (2017) state that financial risks for farmers stem from potential changes in income (choicespecific net returns in our model), access to credit, interest rates, and value of financial assets. Among these, farm size and land property rights are frequently used to capture the impact of wealth and financial stability on the irrigation adoption decision process (Alam, 2015;Zhang et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…By irrigating, farmers have the potential to increase average economic outcomes while reducing their variability, as well as stabilizing yields by diminishing the share of income dependent on rainfall patterns (Salazar et al, 2016;Foudi et al, 2012). Villa-Cox et al (2017) addressed the issue of uncertainty in irrigation investment focusing on credit availability by indicat-ing that farmers are constrained due to the risk of failing to meet the credit demand. Overall, the results on the relation between irrigation investments and uncertainty emphasize the need to properly address this issue in depth and to develop a decision model capable of accounting for this issue.…”

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“…Villa‐Cox et al. (2017) addressed the issue of uncertainty in irrigation investment focusing on credit availability by indicating that farmers are constrained due to the risk of failing to meet the credit demand. Overall, the results on the relation between irrigation investments and uncertainty emphasize the need to properly address this issue in depth and to develop a decision model capable of accounting for this issue.…”

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Understanding constraints on private irrigation adoption decisions under uncertainty in data constrained settings: A novel empirical approach tested on Ecuadorian Cocoa cultivations

Villa-Cox

Cavazza²,

Jordán

et al. 2021

Agricultural Economics

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In rural areas of LatinAmerican Countries, irrigation requirements for perennial crops, like cocoa are expected to increase. This paper develops a novel holistic approach to model private investment decisions in irrigation adoption by small and mid-sized cocoa farmers that face competing sources of uncertainty. In agricultural studies data collection through surveys often leads to issues of missing information on key measured variables. Our approach deals simultaneously with the issue of endogeneity of considering diverse risk sources and with the missing values in key covariates. The study considers multiple levels of irrigation adoption in a context where traditional and modern irrigation systems might coexist.The main contributions of this paper are both its methodological approach and its empirical application filling a knowledge gap on irrigation adoption.

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“…In the context of irrigation, following Gabriel (2017), there is an endogeneity problem associated with loan access and technological adoption; we take a similar approach to estimate the propensity scores-we use instrumental variables in a linear probit model, and we consider the adoption of drip irrigation as a dependent variable. Using instrumental variables is the common approach taken to overcome the endogeneity problem, and it is preferable when estimating casual effect (Freedman and Sekhon 2010).…”

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Drip irrigation technology in Karnataka, India

Kabbur¹,

Speelman²,

Cox³

2020

Agri. Econ. Rese. Revi.

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This study assesses whether the practice of drip irrigation in Karnataka reduced the usage of groundwater. It finds that while drip irrigation does reduce the quantity of groundwater used per acre, the quantity of the groundwater used per farm does not fall concomitantly, because the irrigation intensity of drip irrigation is greater. Therefore, limiting the area under drip irrigation would make the adoption of the technology sustainable and address food security, and the government should complement the practice of drip irrigation. There is no rebound effect or instance of the Jevons paradox.

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Small and Mid-Sized Farmer Irrigation Adoption in the Context of Public Provision of Hydric Infrastructure in Latin America and Caribbean

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Water consumption by agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: impact of climate change and applications of nuclear and isotopic techniques

Water consumption by agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean: impact of climate change and applications of nuclear and isotopic techniques

Understanding constraints on private irrigation adoption decisions under uncertainty in data constrained settings: A novel empirical approach tested on Ecuadorian Cocoa cultivations

Drip irrigation technology in Karnataka, India

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