Indicating the wrong track? A critical appraisal of water productivity as an indicator to inform water efficiency policies

Ozcelik, Nadin; Rodrı́guez, Miguel Á.; Lutter, Stephan; Sartal, António

doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105452

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“…The concepts, productivity, and water use-efficiency, are linked and widely used [5,6] to address the issues of water scarcity [7,8] and production increment [9,10], as well as the technology performance [11][12][13]. The productivity signifies the ratio of the output to the input for the specific situation of production.…”

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Measuring Technical Efficiency for Closuring Yield Gap and Improving Water Productivity of the Irrigated Durum Wheat in Tunisia

Chemak

Mazhoud

Rached

et al. 2022

Water

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In Tunisia, the development of the irrigated cereal sector plays a key role in the mitigation of the fluctuation of the rainfed production and to ensure a minimum of production. However, the archived yields remain under the expected potential performance, and the water productivity is very low. Hence, this work aims to investigate the performance of the irrigated durum wheat activity and to identify eventual determinants to improve the water productivity. To reach the objective, a field survey was carried out with a sample of 555 farmers. We adopted a data envelopment analysis approach to assess the technical efficiency and water use efficiency. A Tobit model was estimated to identify determinants of the technical performance. The results showed that the technical efficiency reached only 63%, which meant that farmers could increase the durum wheat yield from 3.5 tha−1 to 4.8 tha−1. The water use efficiency reached only 30%, which translates to an unwise use of the water resource. The results also showed an eventual improvement of the water productivity by more importantly saving the irrigation water rather than optimizing the production. To improve the performances, the results revealed some key determinants that could be taken into account by policy makers to implement appropriate strategies.

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Measuring Technical Efficiency for Closuring Yield Gap and Improving Water Productivity of the Irrigated Durum Wheat in Tunisia

Chemak

Mazhoud

Rached

et al. 2022

Water

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“…Therefore, effectively utilizing agricultural water resource becomes imperative for water conservation and agricultural production in China. In this context, water productivity (WP), used as a good indicator to describe the water use of croplands, is getting more concern (Ai et al, 2020;Mbava et al, 2020;Ozcelik et al, 2021). Monitoring the spatial and temporal dynamics of cropland WP is becoming crucial for improving the understanding of cropland water use and beneficial to adopting efficient water managements to cope with the growing demand of water resource in China.…”

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Spatiotemporal variations of water productivity for cropland and driving factors over China during 2001–2015

Yang

Zhang

Wang

et al. 2022

Agricultural Water Management

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“…Governments, especially those in the less-developing world, have been criticised for the fact that their development policy mix has little or no relevance to the economic needs of the economically vulnerable communities such as the youths and women in their countries (Scholvin, 2021;Ozcelik et al, 2021;Ruthowski and Ruthowski, 2021). As a consequence, this has left a number of nations with surging numbers of both unemployed and unemployable youths.…”

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A perspective review on the paradigm shift in Local Economic Development interventions in developmental Uganda

Mwesigwa

Acanga²,

Oryang³

et al. 2022

IJPID

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Purpose: The purpose of this article is to investigate the success of one LED intervention – the youth livelihood program from obtainable literature. Methodology: This study adopted a desk review method using secondary data from obtainable policy, theoretical and empirical literature. Findings: Results suggest a recurrent problem in the selection of beneficiaries, inept business management skills of the youth selected and/or administrative incompetence of fund administrators. Consequently, the need to refocus the current training on agricultural value addition training with a view of meeting the credit value criteria of Commercial Banks and relevant agencies tasked with disbursement of Youth Entrepreneurship Funds is key. Recommendations: It is encouraged that training of youth in business development, scaling, marketing, and management be integrated into the BTVET curriculum and supported by mentorship programs upon completion of their formal training. Also, mentorships and business incubators and/or hubs need to be set up and to be accessed by the youth themselves country wide. Contribution to Theory, Policy and Practice: This analysis contributes to the LED policy and YLP practice seeing that it targets household level income generation, creation of prosperity and enhanced sources of revenue, as well as giving support to the active poor to progress basing on the available means.

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Indicating the wrong track? A critical appraisal of water productivity as an indicator to inform water efficiency policies

Cited by 17 publications

References 30 publications

Measuring Technical Efficiency for Closuring Yield Gap and Improving Water Productivity of the Irrigated Durum Wheat in Tunisia

Measuring Technical Efficiency for Closuring Yield Gap and Improving Water Productivity of the Irrigated Durum Wheat in Tunisia

Spatiotemporal variations of water productivity for cropland and driving factors over China during 2001–2015

A perspective review on the paradigm shift in Local Economic Development interventions in developmental Uganda

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