The role of rainfed agriculture in securing food production in the Nile Basin

Siderius, Christian; Walsum, P.E.V. van; Roest, C.W.J.; Smit, A.; Hellegers, Petra; Kabat, P.; Ierland, E.C. van

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2016.03.007

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“…As the part of the world with the highest ratio of people to water, much work on HEAs have focused on the water problems of the Middle East. Examples include the works of Goor et al (2010, Satti et al (2015), Siderius et al (2016), Wu et al (2016, Digna et al (2018), Kahsay et al (2019).…”

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Hydroeconomic Analysis to Guide Climate Adaptation Plans

Ward

2021

Front. Water

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Successful climate adaptation needs to sustain food, water, and energy security in the face of elevated carbon emissions. Hydroeconomic analysis (HEA) offers considerable potential to inform climate adaptation plans where water is an important element of economic activity. This paper's contribution is to identify how HEA can inform climate adaptation plans by minimizing economic costs of responding to climate induced changes in water supplies. It describes what HEA is, why it is important, how researchers implement it, who has made significant contributions, and places where it has informed policy debates. It also describes future directions for the use of HEA to guide climate adaptation.

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Hydroeconomic Analysis to Guide Climate Adaptation Plans

Ward

2021

Front. Water

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“…Rain-fed agriculture can increase net returns per hectare substantially through crop improvement and natural resource management interventions (Harrisk and Orr, 2014). Siderius et al (2016) argue that the rain-fed area of the Nile has the potential to meet above 75% of the needed increase in food production by 2025. This implies the importance of the rain-fed agriculture to meet the rising demand for food production in the future.…”

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Adaptation to Climate Change in Rain-Fed Farming System in Punjab, Pakistan

Bakhsh

Kamran

2019

International Journal of the Commons

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Farmers in the rain-fed agriculture in arid regions are highly exposed to the adverse effects of climate change due to complete reliance on frequency, intensity, and timing of the rainfall. Adaptation, in such condition, becomes crucial to remain in farming in climate change regime. In the rural settings of the less-developed areas, farm households mostly adapt to risks posed by climate change individually. However, the benefits of private adaptation can be private and public depending on the type of adaptation strategies. The present study investigates different adaptation strategies of farmers using cross-sectional data collected from semi-arid region of Punjab province of Pakistan. The study also examines the role of socioeconomic characteristics of farmers on adaptation to climate change. Private adaptations for private and public benefits are considered in the present study. Data is collected from 190 respondents through random sampling. Logit model is employed to find out determinants of adaptation strategies adopted by the farmers. Results indicate that education, farming experience, family size and tractor ownership are significantly related with adaptation to climate change. The study concludes that policymakers should consider the potential difference in private benefits and public benefits resulting from private adaptation to climate change in relation to human capital, family assets and farm machinery when designing policy interventions for climate adaptations. The public goods related private adaptations should be encouraged through appropriate policy interventions.

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“…Also, experiences with transboundary water management have informed this study. Work by Siderius et al (2016) showed, for instance, that strengthening intra-basin cooperation in the Nile Basin via food trade seems to be a better strategy than the unilateral expansion of upstream irrigation, as the latter will reduce hydropower generation and relocate, rather than increase, food production. This is a typical weighing of economic values against societal needs at different geographical scales.…”

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Weighing economic values against societal needs: questioning the roles of valuing water in practice

Hellegers

Halsema

2019

Water Policy

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The increasing policy interest in valuing water raises questions about practical roles or applications. Is valuing water intended, for example, to inform public policy and businesses, guide resource allocation, support a multi-stakeholder process, manage conflicts of interest, or to inform realistic pricing systems and support investment decisions? Decisions affecting water often fail, however, to consider ecosystem needs and social objectives and impacts in other geographical areas. This paper reflects on the essence of valuing water in practice. The paper concludes that in practice, valuing water is indeed useful in decision-making, not solely in the sense of it contributing to the value determination (as values are typically disputed, partial, incommensurable and imperfect), but more in offering a structured and transparent mechanism that supports an inclusive stakeholder water resources management process. Water valuation can play a key role in making explicit the trade-offs intrinsic to decision-making and priority setting, especially when it concerns societal needs such as food security and stability, which are not revealed in the marketplace. As such, valuing water may be a key tool in water diplomacy, whereby its value lies not so much in its numerical assessment as in the process it offers to engage stakeholders across different perspectives and interests in water use.

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The role of rainfed agriculture in securing food production in the Nile Basin

Cited by 38 publications

References 26 publications

Hydroeconomic Analysis to Guide Climate Adaptation Plans

Hydroeconomic Analysis to Guide Climate Adaptation Plans

Adaptation to Climate Change in Rain-Fed Farming System in Punjab, Pakistan

Weighing economic values against societal needs: questioning the roles of valuing water in practice

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