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Estimating the impacts of water pricing on smallholder irrigators in North West Province, South Africa

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  • Stijn Speelman

    (Department Land Management - KU Leuven - Catholic University of Leuven = Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

  • Jeroen Buysse

    (UGent - Universiteit Gent = Ghent University = Université de Gand)

  • Stefano Farolfi

    (UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - AgroParisTech - CEMAGREF - Centre national du machinisme agricole, du génie rural, des eaux et forêts - IRD [Occitanie] - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes, Cirad-ES - Département Environnements et Sociétés - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement)

  • Aymen Frija

    (ENA Moghrane - ENA Moghrane - Ecole Nationale d'Agriculture de Moghrane)

  • Marijke D’haese

    (UGent - Universiteit Gent = Ghent University = Université de Gand)

  • Luc D’haese

Abstract

Worldwide growing water scarcity has increased the call for economic instruments to stimulate rational water use in agriculture. Furthermore, cost-recovery is now widely accepted as a cornerstone of sustainable water management. In many developing countries, where agricultural water use is often still subsidised, water pricing policies are developed for allocating water efficiently and achieving sustainability of water systems. However, the impacts of water pricing policies on irrigation water use and on farm production systems is mostly unknown. We introduce an innovative two-stage methodology that allows estimating these effects at farm level. Applying the method to small-scale irrigators in South Africa, we show that water demand is quite responsive even to small changes in water price. In addition, the introduction of a water price significantly decreases farm profit. This appears to be a problem primarily for the poorer farmers.
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  • Stijn Speelman & Jeroen Buysse & Stefano Farolfi & Aymen Frija & Marijke D’haese & Luc D’haese, 2009. "Estimating the impacts of water pricing on smallholder irrigators in North West Province, South Africa," Post-Print hal-04058950, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04058950
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2009.06.014
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