Adoption of multiple sustainable land management practices among irrigator rural farm households of Ethiopia

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ID21648645
AutoresRahel Deribe Bekele (0000-0002-6279-9490, Department of Economic and Technological Change Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn Bonn Germany, autor de correspondencia), Alisher Mirzabaev (0000-0002-5223-7160, Department of Economic and Technological Change Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn Bonn Germany), Dawit Mekonnen (0000-0002-5279-7926, Environment and Production Technology Division International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Addis Ababa Ethiopia)
Año2021
Volumen32
Número17
Páginas5052-5068
Fecha de publicación2021-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLand Degradation and Development (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1085-3278 • E-ISSN: 1099-145X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/ldr.4091
OpenAlexW3196338701
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas41

Using a household and plot‐level survey conducted in Ethiopia, this study analyses the difference in farmers' adoption of sustainable land management (SLM) practices between their rainfed and irrigated plots. The paper also investigates the varying influence of different types of irrigation water management systems and associated irrigation technologies on the adoption of SLM practices in irrigated plots. After controlling for heterogeneity among different irrigation water management systems and technologies, we found that access to irrigation play major role in enhancing farmers' motivation to adopt more SLM practices. Furthermore, the combined effect of irrigation water management system and irrigation technology on type and number of SLM practices adopted is quite varied and very significant. The evidence highlights that farmers adopt more SLM practices in their plots with pump irrigation compared with those plots where gravity irrigation is applied because pump irrigation systems enhance complementarities with SLM practices. Finally, the findings underscore that the type of irrigation water management and the irrigation technology applied play an important role in restoring degraded lands and maintaining soil fertility, even when farmers' adoption of irrigation was not explicitly triggered by concerns for soil health

Agricultural economics · Agricultural engineering · Agricultural science · Agronomy · Business · Economics · Irrigation · Irrigation management · Water conservation · Water resource management · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Engineering · Environmental Science · Irrigation Practices and Water Management · Land Rights and Reforms