Regulating agricultural groundwater use in arid and semi-arid regions of the Global South: Challenges and socio-environmental impacts

Hoogesteger, Jaime

doi:10.1016/j.coesh.2022.100341

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“…In arid and semi-arid regions, groundwater is traditionally the primary source of water supply (Hoogesteger, 2022). Morocco, with its water management heritage, is a prime example of this reliance on groundwater, particularly within the Saïs Plateau.…”

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Identification of Optimal Groundwater Storage Sites in a Semi-Arid Region: A GIS-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Approach

Qadem,

Abduljaleel,

Amiri

et al. 2024

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Groundwater became a key solution for satisfying water demand for billions of people in many arid and semi-arid regions where climate change has left its negative mark. That poses the necessity of identifying the potential groundwater storage sites to ensure sustainable aquifers. Water resources' availability conditions have a major impact on the socio-economic status of the area, which reflects the necessity of ensuring sustainable water resources, especially groundwater. This study aims to explore potential areas for groundwater storage in the Saïs Plateau and its middle Atlas borders in Morocco using advanced methods such as Remote Sensing (RS) data managed in a Geographic Information System (GIS). The methodology used for evaluation integrates sophisticated methods such as the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to assess the impact of relevant parameters (precipitation, lithology, rock fractures, and topography) on storage potential. The results reveal significant disparities in storage capacity between the studied regions, highlighting the major influence of climatic and geographical conditions. Areas with high storage potential are mainly concentrated in the Middle Atlas, benefiting from more permeable rocks and abundant precipitation. In contrast, the Saïs Plateau has a more limited storage capacity due to its local geological conditions and lower precipitation levels. This study provides valuable insights for strategic planning of groundwater management, not only as a model for the studied region but also for other regions facing similar challenges of climate change and population growth.

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Identification of Optimal Groundwater Storage Sites in a Semi-Arid Region: A GIS-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Approach

Qadem,

Abduljaleel,

Amiri

et al. 2024

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“…The falling water tables also raise important concerns about the costs that might be needed in the future to deepen and/or reposition the wells and the larger socioecological system. However, the users feel that this issue is an issue which is out of the reach of their actions as the larger aquifer problem is seen as a classical common resource pool problem (see Hoogesteger, 2022).…”

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“…As prices for agricultural products and support for smallholders decrease, peasant farmers increasingly diversify their livelihood strategies (Coe and Hess, 2013). This threatens collective action and investments for the sustenance of collectively managed irrigation systems 2022;Sanchis-Ibor et al, 2017). While research shows that many irrigation communities have proven to be very resilient and adapt to social, economic and technical transformations (Sese-Minguez et al, 2017;García-Mollá et al, 2020;Mirhanoğlu et al, 2023), there is little known about how relations of production and access to resources, especially land and water, shift among the commons as part of these processes.…”

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Linking Institutions for Collective Action to Agrarian Change: Insights from Transformations in an Irrigation Community, Central Mexico

Hoogesteger,

Rivara

2023

International Journal of the Commons

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In commons studies, broad attention has been given to understanding how and why natural resource management systems function through institutions for collective action. However, little attention has been given to how agrarian change impacts institutions for collective action and related resource access. In this paper we address this gap through the case study of a groundwater irrigation community in the northeast of the state of Guanajuato, Central Mexico. In a context of neoliberally induced agrarian change, over the last two and a half decades, in this community a few producers with capital acquired through international migration and remittances have accumulated access to land and water. This accumulation has gone hand in hand with the transformation of production to the high value agro-export crop asparagus and the creation of a cooperative for the collective production and marketization of the crop. We show that the irrigation community has proven institutionally robust in the midst of agrarian change because it was able to adapt to, and enable, this productive transformation. At the same time, we also show that this process led to the accumulation of access to land and water by a few irrigators and that the irrigation community is now composed of a very different and smaller group of users/producers. These results imply that processes of agrarian change, transformations in access to productive resources, and the adaptation and resilience of institutions for collective action are deeply intertwined and interdependent.

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“…The silence of the groundwater revolution is too often broken by the noise caused by falling aquifer levels, rising pumping costs, aquifer pollution, land subsidence and impacts on the biodiversity of groundwaterdependent ecosystems. In addition, these crises generate situations of inequity, injustice or dispossession of water resources, directly or in a collateral way (Hoogesteger & Wester, 2015;Hoogesteger, 2022).…”

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Advancing Co-governance through Framing Processes: Insights from Action-Research in the Requena-Utiel Aquifer (Eastern Spain)

Ibor,

López-Pérez,

García-Mollá

et al. 2023

International Journal of the Commons

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In recent years, co-management has been highlighted in the scientific literature as fundamental strategy for groundwater governance. However, the development of such an institutional architecture is complex and presents important pitfalls and challenges. Based on participatory action research, in this article we analyse the recent experience of co-management in the Requena-Utiel aquifer (Spain). We used a cognitive framing approach, developed through interviews with local stakeholders, to analyse the conflicting visions on the aquifer management. Then we developed an interactive framing approach, through workshops, to achieve a shared understanding of aquifer co-management. This was done with the aim to facilitate a consensus building process among users, as a basis on which to support future self-governance measures. The research demonstrates the usefulness of these approaches to promote collective action and co-management in groundwater. It shows the key role that information and transparency play in gaining shared understanding and improving co-management; but also the difficulties of users in establishing agreements that question the current status quo on the aquifer.

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Regulating agricultural groundwater use in arid and semi-arid regions of the Global South: Challenges and socio-environmental impacts

Cited by 16 publications

References 54 publications

Identification of Optimal Groundwater Storage Sites in a Semi-Arid Region: A GIS-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Approach

Identification of Optimal Groundwater Storage Sites in a Semi-Arid Region: A GIS-Based Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Approach

Linking Institutions for Collective Action to Agrarian Change: Insights from Transformations in an Irrigation Community, Central Mexico

Advancing Co-governance through Framing Processes: Insights from Action-Research in the Requena-Utiel Aquifer (Eastern Spain)

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