Groundwater overdraft reduction through agricultural energy policy: insights from India and Mexico

Scott, Christopher A.; Shah, Tushaar

doi:10.1080/0790062042000206156

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“…For example, Badiani and Jessoe (2013) empirically analyze the impact of electricity subsidies on groundwater extraction and agricultural production in India. Other studies have used interviews or survey data to analyze the relationship between energy and groundwater extraction in India and/or Mexico (Birner et al 2007;Fan, Gulati, and Sukhadeo 2008;Kumar 2005;Scott and Shah 2004).…”

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The Effects of Energy Prices on Agricultural Groundwater Extraction from the High Plains Aquifer

Pfeiffer

Lin

2014

American J Agri Economics

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We examine the effects of energy prices on groundwater extraction using an econometric model of a farmer's irrigation water pumping decision that accounts for both the intensive and extensive margins. Our results show that energy prices have an effect on both types of margins. Increasing energy prices would affect crop selection decisions, crop acreage allocation decisions, and farmers' demand for water. Our estimated total marginal effect, which sums the effects on the intensive and extensive margins, suggests that a $1 per million btu increase in the energy price would decrease water extraction by an individual farmer by 5.89 acre‐feet per year, a decrease of 3.6 percent of the average annual extraction rate. Our estimated elasticity of water extraction with respect to energy price is −0.26.

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The Effects of Energy Prices on Agricultural Groundwater Extraction from the High Plains Aquifer

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Lin

2014

American J Agri Economics

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“…Moreover, local officials are under strong pressure to reach the groundwater abstraction targets. Thus, instances of noncompliance may occur, but it does not undermine policy implementation as typically found elsewhere (Scott and Shah 2004). Due to environmental restoration, there is also a certain level of acceptance amongst the population, particularly in the villages neighboring the desert where the threat of desertification is highest.…”

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Controlling groundwater through smart card machines: the case of water quotas and pricing mechanisms in Gansu Province, China.

Aarnoudse¹,

Bluemling²

2017

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“…Gaining efficiency in one sector can also be detrimental to other sectors. For instance, when electricity becomes cheaper, it is typically used more, which may encourage the unsustainable extraction of groundwater for irrigation [66,67]. Therefore, understanding the connections among water, land, food, and energy within a broader socio-ecological systems perspective can promote efficiency and improve the management of trade-offs.…”

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Trade-Offs in Multi-Purpose Land Use under Land Degradation

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Land provides a host of ecosystem services, of which the provisioning services are often considered paramount. As the demand for agricultural products multiplies, other ecosystem services are being degraded or lost entirely. Finding a sustainable trade-off between food production and one or more of other ecosystem services, given the variety of stakeholders, is a matter of optimizing land use in a dynamic and complex socio-ecological system. Land degradation reduces our options to meet both food demands and environmental needs. In order to illustrate this trade-off dilemma, four representative services, carbon sinks, water storage, biodiversity, and space for urbanization, are discussed here based on a review of contemporary literature that cuts across the domain of ecosystem services that are provided by land. Agricultural research will have to expand its focus from the field to the landscape level and in the process examine the cost of production that internalizes environmental costs. In some situations, the public cost of agriculture in marginal environments outweighs the private gains, even with the best technologies in place. Land use and city planners will increasingly have to address the cost of occupying productive agricultural land or the conversion of natural habitats. Landscape designs and urban planning should aim for the preservation of agricultural land and the integrated management of land resources by closing water and nutrient cycles, and by restoring biodiversity.

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Groundwater overdraft reduction through agricultural energy policy: insights from India and Mexico

Cited by 137 publications

References 2 publications

The Effects of Energy Prices on Agricultural Groundwater Extraction from the High Plains Aquifer

The Effects of Energy Prices on Agricultural Groundwater Extraction from the High Plains Aquifer

Controlling groundwater through smart card machines: the case of water quotas and pricing mechanisms in Gansu Province, China.

Trade-Offs in Multi-Purpose Land Use under Land Degradation

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