Evaluation of agricultural water-saving effects in the context of water rights trading: An empirical study from China's water rights pilots

Zhang, Hengquan; Zhou, Qin; Zhang, Chenjun

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127725

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“…The premise of using the double difference method to estimate the effectiveness of the Policy is that the experimental group and the control group have the same growth trend before being impacted by the Policy, so it is necessary to conduct a parallel trend test on the explained variables. This paper uses two methods to test the parallel trend (Beck et al, 2010;Zhang et al, 2021).…”

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Has the Yangtze river economic belt strategy promoted the construction of ecological civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze river?

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Tian³

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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As a regional development strategy based on the world’s third largest river basin unit, the Yangtze river economic belt strategy plays a vital role in building ecological civilization with the core concept of “ecological priority and green development”. To study the impact of the Yangtze River Economic Belt strategy on the construction of ecological civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. This paper uses the entropy power method to measure the level of ecological civilization construction in 37 prefecture-level cities in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. It examines the impact of the Yangtze River Economic Belt Strategy on the construction of ecological civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River based on the DID method. The study results show that 1) the level of ecological civilization construction in the Yangtze River’s upper reaches has continuously improved from 2003 to 2020. 2) The implementation of the Yangtze River Economic Belt Strategy has a significant positive impact on the construction of ecological civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. 3) The Yangtze River Economic Belt Strategy can promote the construction of ecological civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River by improving the level of science and technology innovation. 4) The implementation of the Yangtze River Economic Belt Strategy does not significantly impact the level of ecological civilization construction in the regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, so it is necessary to pay attention to the synergy between different policies. This study will help to raise the awareness of developing countries on economic development and ecological protection in the river basin, and provide a reference for policymakers.

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Has the Yangtze river economic belt strategy promoted the construction of ecological civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze river?

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Tian³

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Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Economic and social development totally de pends on the limited distribution of the Yellow River's migrating water. In order to solve the "bottleneck" of water resource constraints, Ningxia was selected by the Ministry of Water Resources to implement the water rights strategy as a pilot tha In order to solve the "bottleneck" of water resource constraints, Ningxia was selected by the Ministry of Water Resources to implement the water rights strategy as a pilot that transfers water saved in agriculture to industrial projects [32], implementing the largescale and industry-oriented water rights conversion by "water-saving investment and water rights transfer". In the process of industrial water rights transfer in Ningxia, the agricultural assignor of water rights is passive; that is, the government and enterprises invested in the construction of water-saving projects for water transport, and transferred the water that was saved during the water transfer processes to the industry.…”

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Research on Water Rights Trading and Pricing Model between Agriculture and Energy Development in Ningxia, China

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The contradiction between the supply and demand of water resources has become increasingly prominent, and water rights trading is an effective approach to increase the efficiency of water resource utilization and allocation so as to achieve sustainable use of water resources. Current transferring cost and price in China are both underestimated, taking into account the construction and maintenance fee of water conservation project and the irrigation risk compensation fee but ignoring the renovation and reconstruction fee of water conservation projects, and the compensation fee for farmers. This paper takes assignee rights, assignee capacity, and compensation to third parties into comprehensive considerations in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, where the contradictions between water, energy and food are most prominent in China. Tradable water use rights were analyzed based on a water transfer pricing model. The results show that there is an obvious negative correlation between shadow water price and water usage, and the shadow price of water resources is between 10.91 and 40.52 CNY/m3, which is an optimal solution under the constraint of water usage from 6.65 to 7.03 billion m3. The reasonable water transfer price is 10.91 CYN/m3, of which the earning of the agricultural assignor was 5.96 CNY/m3. This price guarantees the interests of the assignee and is also affordable to the assignee. This research provides a specific calculation method for the transfer pricing of water rights under non-market conditions, which is of important theoretically and has practical significance.

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“…China has launched a series of policy reforms and explorations on farmland water management, such as the establishment of "water user associations(WUA), water rights trading reforms, and comprehensive agricultural water price reforms". Although these policies have been effective in improving the governance of China's farmland water resources and promoting irrigation efficiency [6], they still fail to address the fundamental problems of chaotic governance of China's farmland water facilities and a severe waste of water resources [7]. Some scholars have found that many WUAs exist only in form and do not play a fundamental role [8,9]; the water rights trading system also has many problems in practical application [10]; at the same time, the promotion of agricultural water price reform policy also faces many difficulties [11,12].…”

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Has Property Rights Reform of China’s Farmland Water Facilities Improved Farmers’ Irrigation Efficiency?—Evidence from a Typical Reform Pilot in China’s Yunnan Province

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China is implementing a pilot project to reform the property rights of farmland water facilities to solve the serious problems of chaotic end-of-pipe governance and inefficient irrigation from farmers. Based on microscopic research data of farm households in a typical pilot in Lu Liang County, Yunnan Province, in China, this study uses the Tobit model, and SEM was used to explore the impact of property rights reform on the irrigation efficiency of farmers and the potential mechanism paths. We further analyzed the differences in governance logic and irrigation efficiency between the two property rights models of “multiple cooperative governance” and “private contract governance” formed after the reform. The findings are as follows: (1) Compared with nonreformed areas, reformed areas have a higher promotion of adoption of water-saving technologies and a better quality of facility maintenance, which significantly contributes to irrigation efficiency, but farmers’ perception of water scarcity negatively affects irrigation efficiency; (2) there are differences between the “multiple cooperative governance model” and “private contract governance model” in terms of the mechanism paths to improve irrigation efficiency, resulting in different focuses between the two models, in which the former one has better irrigation efficiency while cutting off some of the farmers’ benefits and the latter benefits more farmers while losing some of the irrigation efficiency. Finally, this study recommends that China should continue to promote the reform of farmland water property rights while focusing on promoting water conservation technologies, improving the quality of facility maintenance and facility water supply capacity, enhancing farmers’ awareness of water scarcity, and implementing a more water-efficient “multiple cooperative governance model”. The results of this study provide a model with Chinese characteristics for developing property rights policies and governance models for farmland water facilities in developing countries.

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Evaluation of agricultural water-saving effects in the context of water rights trading: An empirical study from China's water rights pilots

Cited by 31 publications

References 18 publications

Has the Yangtze river economic belt strategy promoted the construction of ecological civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze river?

Has the Yangtze river economic belt strategy promoted the construction of ecological civilization in the upper reaches of the Yangtze river?

Research on Water Rights Trading and Pricing Model between Agriculture and Energy Development in Ningxia, China

Has Property Rights Reform of China’s Farmland Water Facilities Improved Farmers’ Irrigation Efficiency?—Evidence from a Typical Reform Pilot in China’s Yunnan Province

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