The Impact of Treadle Pump Irrigation Technology Adoption on Poverty in Ghana

Adeoti, Adetola I.; Barry, Boubacar; Namara, Regassa E.; Kamara, Abdul

doi:10.1080/13892240903309611

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“…There is accumulated evidence on the crucial role of extension systems in the adoption of treadle or motorized pumps among smallholders (Adeoti, 2009;Adeoti, Barry, Namara, Kamara, & Titiati, 2007). Effective extension systems are needed not just for promoting groundwater irrigation but also for improving access to other inputs like seeds and fertilizers.…”

Section: Extension Systemsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Do policy and institutional factors explain the low levels of smallholder groundwater use in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Chokkakula

Giordano

2013

Water International

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This article examines the policy and institutional constraints on smallholder adoption of groundwater irrigation practices in Sub-Saharan Africa. The analysis departs from the unilateral focus on the promotion of technologies and probes not only the issues of groundwater governance but also those policies related to other enabling factors such as access to credit, energy and agricultural pricing policies and land-tenure security. The paper argues that the region may be missing an opportunity by not ensuring at least neutral policy towards agricultural groundwater development and addressing other constraints which hold back not only agricultural groundwater use but smallholder agriculture development in general

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Section: Extension Systemsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Do policy and institutional factors explain the low levels of smallholder groundwater use in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Chokkakula

Giordano

2013

Water International

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“…Because these pumps can access water only to a depth of ∼7 m, they are not useful where local water supplies are deeper underground. Further, in some regions of SSA where crop production is strongly gender-divided, and horticulture is seen as a female pursuit, treadle pumps may not be culturally appropriate or simply will not be used (34).…”

Section: Synergies Of Water Access Distribution and Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Unfortunately, capital constraints often prevent farmers from investing in all three of these complementary components of distributed irrigation, and hence they do not reap maximum returns. Research has shown that, even if two technologies are complementary, farmers will often skimp on a divisible technology (like vegetable seeds or fertilizer) when they have sunk significant capital into a "lumpy" technology (like a pump or an irrigation kit) (34,35).…”

Section: Synergies Of Water Access Distribution and Usementioning

confidence: 99%

The case for distributed irrigation as a development priority in sub-Saharan Africa

Burney

Naylor

Postel

2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Distributed irrigation systems are those in which the water access (via pump or human power), distribution (via furrow, watering can, sprinkler, drip lines, etc.), and use all occur at or near the same location. Distributed systems are typically privately owned and managed by individuals or groups, in contrast to centralized irrigation systems, which tend to be publicly operated and involve large water extractions and distribution over significant distances for use by scores of farmers. Here we draw on a growing body of evidence on smallholder farmers, distributed irrigation systems, and land and water resource availability across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) to show how investments in distributed smallholder irrigation technologies might be used to (i) use the water sources of SSA more productively, (ii) improve nutritional outcomes and rural development throughout SSA, and (iii) narrow the income disparities that permit widespread hunger to persist despite aggregate economic advancement.agriculture | food security

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“…Studies of the impact of treadle pump technology are exceptions (e.g. Adeoti et al 2009). We address a gap in the agricultural development literature by evaluating a program that promoted smallholder adoption of motorized groundwater irrigation, a technology with far greater potential for production impacts than human-powered pumps.…”

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Are matching funds for smallholder irrigation money well spent?

Mullally

Chakravarty

2018

Food Policy

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Groundwater irrigation can dramatically affect agricultural production and productivity. Despite its potential as an agricultural development tool, little credible evidence exists for the impacts of groundwater development on smallholder agriculture. We add to the evidence on the benefits of irrigation investments for small producers by evaluating the Rural Business Development (RBD) program of the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Nicaragua for small plantain producers. The RBD program offered matching funds covering up to 30% of the cost of two years of inputs, extension services, and dieselpowered micro-sprinkler irrigation for individual farms. In order to estimate the average impact of the RBD program on its beneficiaries, we combine model selection via the LASSO with doubly robust treatment effect estimation as applied to two years of panel data for 146 producers. We find that the program had substantial impacts on plantain revenue and production, while achieving nearly complete irrigation coverage of plantain land among beneficiaries. We find no discernible impact on household expenditure. JEL Codes: O13, O22, Q12

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The Impact of Treadle Pump Irrigation Technology Adoption on Poverty in Ghana

Cited by 27 publications

References 6 publications

Do policy and institutional factors explain the low levels of smallholder groundwater use in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Do policy and institutional factors explain the low levels of smallholder groundwater use in Sub-Saharan Africa?

The case for distributed irrigation as a development priority in sub-Saharan Africa

Are matching funds for smallholder irrigation money well spent?

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