Adoption of water conservation practices: A socioeconomic analysis of small-scale farmers in Central Chile

Jara‐Rojas, Roberto; Bravo‐Ureta, Boris E.; Díaz, José Carlos Losada

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2012.03.008

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“…This is similar to results found by Jara-Rojas et al (2012), but in contrast to Pannell (1999) who reported that the adoption of SWC measures had been lower and slower than would be socially optimal due to factors such as high implementation costs. Chomba (2004) stated that decreasing cost of production and increasing access to services and resources to farmers had a positive effect on the use of conservation practices.…”

Section: Use Of Soil and Water Conservation (Swc) Practicessupporting

confidence: 36%

An examination of soil and water conservation practices in the paddy fields of Guilan province, Iran

Ashoori

Bagheri

Allahyari

et al. 2016

An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (2016) ABSTRACTThis study examined the use of soil and water conservation (SWC) practices among rice farmers in Iran. A random sample of 400 rice paddy farmers in the Foumanat plain of Guilan province, who use SWC measures, was drawn from a population of 52 thousand farmers. A two-part questionnaire was used to examine the level of utilization of SWC practices and to profi le paddy farmers. Internal consistency was demonstrated with a coeffi cient alpha of 0.76, and the content and face validity of the instrument was confi rmed by a panel of soil and water experts. Descriptive and analytical statistics were used to analyze the data. Results of ANOVA indicated that the mean levels of SWC practices vary considerably at the 0.01 level of signifi cance by groups of age, education, non-agricultural income, production costs, yield, cultivated paddies and distance from home to the farm or to the main road. Similarly, signifi cant differences were observed by groups of family size, rice production, ownership of livestock and profi ts from rice production at 0.05 level. The levels of experience in agriculture and ownership of poultry were found to have no signifi cant effects on SWC practices.

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Section: Use Of Soil and Water Conservation (Swc) Practicessupporting

confidence: 36%

An examination of soil and water conservation practices in the paddy fields of Guilan province, Iran

Ashoori

Bagheri

Allahyari

et al. 2016

An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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“…Los factores que influyen en la adopción de prácticas e innovaciones en el sector agropecuario son múltiples, algunos asociados a la presencia de diversos actores (10,11) , otros a diferentes estilos de producción y combinaciones de tecnologías y prácticas (12) , a los cambios a nivel institucional (13,14) , a la complejidad y adaptabilidad de las innovaciones mismas (9) , entre otros (15,16) . Sin embargo, uno de los factores que siempre está presente es la participación de agentes externos, principalmente los relacionados a los servicios de extensión agrícola.…”

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Dinámica de adopción de buenas prácticas de producción de miel en la península de Yucatán, México

Martínez-González

Arroyo-Pozos

Aguilar-Gallegos

et al. 2017

Rev. Mex. Cienc. Pecu.

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Resumen:Los objetivos fueron analizar los cambios en la adopción de buenas prácticas de producción de miel (BPPM) en productores apícolas de la Península de Yucatán, México, antes y después de haber recibido asesoría técnica y capacitación; así como la identificación de factores que inciden en la adopción de dichas prácticas. Considerando 31 BPPM agrupadas en siete categorías, se calculó el índice de adopción de BPPM (InABPPM). Se analizó información de 8,074 apicultores en dos momentos (línea base y línea final), para los estados de Yucatán (n= 3,840), Campeche (n= 3,525) y Quintana Roo (n= 709). Los apicultores se clasificaron de acuerdo al número de colmenas que poseían en: pequeños (1-22, 24 %), medianos (23-35,

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“…The irrigation project is more likely to be adopted (joined) by: poorer farmers (unlike in [12,16,17,19]), who rely more on agriculture than those who rely on livestock activities (like in [15,25]); farmers who have been informed or trained by governmental agencies (like in [14,18,24]), and who feel that they can obtain fair prices for outputs (like in [13]); literate farmers (like in [12,17]); farmers with positive expectations about the future; farmers who base their decisions on a maximization approach rather than on a habit approach. On the other hand, the irrigation project is less likely to be joined by farmers who feel that they obtain fair prices for inputs (like in [13,14]), who have direct access to product markets, and who have satisfactory access to the private credit (loans) market (similar to [12]).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Technological interventions ( [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]), in general, and irrigation projects ( [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]), in particular, often result in a low level of awareness among the target group and in a low level of successful diffusion of the project (i.e., dissemination of knowledge leading to participation) because farmers are rarely consulted a priori about their specific circumstances, priority problems, and expectations. a duration model in the U.S. to estimate the long-term trends in the adoption and diffusion of technologies designed to reduce environmental externalities from agriculture.…”

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Combining Econometric, Cost–Benefit, and Financial Methodologies in a Framework to Increase Diffusion and to Predict the Feasibility and Sustainability of Irrigation Schemes: A Case Study in Kurdistan, Iraq

Zagonari

2017

Water

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This paper applies ex ante econometric, cost-benefit, and financial methodologies to increase participation in an irrigation project and predict its financial feasibility and social sustainability in Shahrazoor, Kurdistan, Iraq. I investigated the socio-economic, psycho-cultural, and financial factors that determine participation. The socio-economic part of the econometric analysis showed that the project was appreciated more by poorer and economically weaker farmers who rely on agriculture than by those who rely on livestock activities. The psycho-cultural part of the econometric analysis emphasized that the project was appreciated more by literate farmers who adopt a maximization (rather than habit) approach. The cost-benefit analysis applied to the irrigation project was tailored to poorer and weaker farmers (i.e., costs of the irrigation scheme and benefits from new cultivation patterns were defined with reference to small farms) by including indirect benefits from both irrigation (e.g., flood control) and hydropower (e.g., eliminated GHG emissions), and determined a 7.1% mean internal rate of return; this was affected more strongly by uncertainty in crop prices than by uncertainty in indirect benefits. The financial analysis highlighted values for water prices, financial returns, and loan rates that met government and farmer budgets. A single framework summarized the main relevant social, economic, and financial conditions, and, by including insights from sensitivity analyses, determined the feasibility and sustainability of the irrigation project. Provided that the water price charged to farmers is between 0.32 and 0.57 USD/m 3 , and the loan interest rate paid by farmers is smaller than 3.0%, the irrigation project in Shahrazoor is financially feasible for 13.6% of all reliable economic solutions and socially sustainable for 35.8% of the solutions.

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Adoption of water conservation practices: A socioeconomic analysis of small-scale farmers in Central Chile

Cited by 95 publications

References 40 publications

An examination of soil and water conservation practices in the paddy fields of Guilan province, Iran

An examination of soil and water conservation practices in the paddy fields of Guilan province, Iran

Dinámica de adopción de buenas prácticas de producción de miel en la península de Yucatán, México

Combining Econometric, Cost–Benefit, and Financial Methodologies in a Framework to Increase Diffusion and to Predict the Feasibility and Sustainability of Irrigation Schemes: A Case Study in Kurdistan, Iraq

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