Identification of public objectives related to agricultural sector support

Gómez‐Limón, José A.; Atance, Ignacio

doi:10.1016/j.jpolmod.2004.07.005

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“…This kind of AHP-application for a policy analysis of wastewater reuse is new; cf. [6] for a similar application in agricultural policies and [2] in peri-urban planning. The salient feature of AHP is its method to translate individual qualitative assessments into individual quantitative criteria weights (decision-aid theory uses also other methods for defining criteria weights, e.g., [7]).…”

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Stakeholder Views, Financing and Policy Implications for Reuse of Wastewater for Irrigation: A Case from Hyderabad, India

Starkl

Brunner

Amerasinghe³

et al. 2015

Water

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When flowing through Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana, India, the Musi River picks up (partially) treated and untreated sewage from the city. Downstream of the city, farmers use this water for the irrigation of rice and vegetables. Treatment of the river water before it is used for irrigation would address the resulting risks for health and the environment. To keep the costs and operational efforts low for the farmers, the use of constructed wetlands is viewed as a suitable option. Towards this end, the paper investigates the interests and perceptions of government stakeholders and famers on the treatment of wastewater for irrigation and further explores the consumer willingness to pay a higher price for cleaner produced vegetables. Full cost recovery from farmers and consumers cannot be expected, if mass scale treatment of irrigation water is implemented. OPEN ACCESSWater 2015, 7 301Instead, both consumers and farmers would expect that the government supports treatment of irrigation water. Most stakeholders associated with the government weigh health and environment so high, that these criteria outweigh cost concerns. They also support the banning of irrigation with polluted water. However, fining farmers for using untreated river water would penalize them for pollution caused by others. Therefore public funding of irrigation water treatment is recommended.

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Section: Analytic Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stakeholder Views, Financing and Policy Implications for Reuse of Wastewater for Irrigation: A Case from Hyderabad, India

Starkl

Brunner

Amerasinghe³

et al. 2015

Water

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“…Responding to these pressures the 2010 European Commission statement on the CAP emphasises the aspirations that the CAP should underpin the distinctive multi-functionality of EU land use and landscapes (European Commission, 2010). These aspirations have been and continue to be contested in terms of clarity of objectives (Gómez-Limón and Atance, 2004), their reality for policy, for example Potter and Burney (2002) on CAP multi-functionality and WTO, and in practice, with land managers still seeing the CAP as primarily about supporting production (Gorton et al, 2008). Within UK there are significant differences between the UK government (DEFRA, 2011), parliament (EFRAC, 2011 and the devolved governments and assemblies (Devolved Administrations, 2011).…”

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Reforming the CAP—With area-based payments, who wins and who loses?

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“…In order to estimate the weights assigned to each generic objective they carried out a survey of citizens, obtaining a sample of 321 valid questionnaires (pair comparisons to build individual Saaty matrices). Because of the similarity between the generic objectives considered in that study and the three basic dimensions of sustainability analyzed in this paper, we regard the results obtained by Gómez-Limón and Atance (2004) as suitable for weighting our criteria. Thus, we have: w eco =28.5%, w soc =39.9% and w env =31.7% (see second row in Figure 1).…”

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Irrigation water pricing instruments: a sustainability assessment

Gallego-Ayala¹,

Gómez‐Limón²,

Arriaza³

1970

Span. j. agric. res.

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The Water Framework Directive (WFD) requires all EU member states to implement water tariffs to recover the costs of water services. This paper analyzes the potential consequences of different instruments for irrigation water pricing (area, volumetric, two-part tariff and block-rate), studying their impact on the sustainability of irrigated areas. The application performed focuses on the Campos district in the Spanish province of Palencia, using simulation models based on positive mathematical programming to simulate farmers' behavior in response to the above-mentioned pricing instruments. A multidimensional set of sustainability indicators (economic, social and environmental) for each instrument is obtained, making it possible to construct a composite indicator for irrigated agriculture (CIIA) in order to measure the overall sustainability performance of irrigated farms. Results show that pricing irrigation water will have a negative impact on overall sustainability, since economic (profitability) and social (generation of employment) sustainability will decline, while only a slight improvement in environmental sustainability will be obtained. However, we show that in order to fulfill WFD requirements, block-rate pricing results in high rates of public-sector revenues derived from irrigation water payments and promotes a significant reduction in the demand for irrigation water with the lowest reductions in farm sustainability measured in terms of the CIIA.Additional key words: composite indicators; irrigated agriculture; positive mathematical programming; water policy. ResumenTarifación del agua de riego: una evaluación de la sostenibilidad La Directiva Marco de Aguas (DMA) exige a los estados de la UE la introducción de tarifas para la recuperación de los costes del agua. Este trabajo analiza las consecuencias de la hipotética implementación de diferentes formas de tarifación del agua de riego (por superficie, volumétrica, binómica y por tramos), estudiando su impacto sobre la sostenibilidad de las zonas regables. La aplicación empírica realizada se ha centrado en la Comarca de Campos (Palencia). Con este propósito se han empleado modelos de simulación basados en la programación matemática positiva, los cuales permiten simular el comportamiento productivo de los regantes ante la aplicación de los diferentes instrumentos analizados. La resolución de estos modelos ha permitido obtener, para cada instrumento de tarifación considerado, un conjunto multidimensional de indicadores de sostenibilidad (económicos, sociales y ambientales), a partir de los cuales se ha desarrollado un indicador sintético de sostenibilidad para el regadío (CIIA). Los resultados obtenidos ponen de manifiesto cómo la puesta en funcionamiento de las distintas formas de tarifación generarían un efecto negativo sobre la sostenibilidad del regadío en términos del CIIA, ya que empeorará sus sostenibilidad económica (rentabilidad) y social (generación de empleo), proporcionando tan sólo ligeras mejoras ambientales. En cualquier caso, al o...

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Identification of public objectives related to agricultural sector support

Cited by 55 publications

References 32 publications

Stakeholder Views, Financing and Policy Implications for Reuse of Wastewater for Irrigation: A Case from Hyderabad, India

Stakeholder Views, Financing and Policy Implications for Reuse of Wastewater for Irrigation: A Case from Hyderabad, India

Reforming the CAP—With area-based payments, who wins and who loses?

Irrigation water pricing instruments: a sustainability assessment

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