Farmers' preferences for irrigation water demand management tools: a Bayesian analysis of choice behaviour of farmers in Krishna river basin, India
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- Prakashan Chellattan Veettil (UGent) , Aymen Frija (UGent) , Stijn Speelman (UGent) , Jeroen Buysse (UGent) and Guido Van Huylenbroeck (UGent)
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- Policy designers have various water demand management (WDM) strategies to achieve efficient water use and allocation at their disposal, such as setting the price of water, decentralizing irrigation water management or improving the quality of water rights. Interestingly, most of these strategies have been applied individually without focusing on the relations between them. This paper uses a discrete choice model to analyse the scope for and the farmers acceptance of combinations of irrigation WDM tools. In terms of local irrigation water governance the presence or absence of collective irrigation water management among farmers in the form of water user association (WUA) is considered. Water rights are specified by the duration of the title, by their transferability and by the quality of title. Finally, four types of water pricing methods (area, crop, quota and volumetric pricing) are selected for the experimental design. Using the choice experiment we can elicit the most preferred water pricing method under different water rights, water prices and local irrigation water governance contexts. Our results indicated that under conditions of improved water rights, preference for volumetric pricing increases, while the presence of a WUA decreases this preference. We also showed that making the right combination of WDM tools considerably increases the willingness to pay for a change in scenario.
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- local water governance, water rights, complementarity, water pricing method, choice experiment, willingness to pay, VALUATION, PRICING POLICIES, MULTINOMIAL PROBIT MODEL
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-3162298
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- Chellattan Veettil, Prakashan, et al. “Farmers’ Preferences for Irrigation Water Demand Management Tools: A Bayesian Analysis of Choice Behaviour of Farmers in Krishna River Basin, India.” WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, edited by CA Brebbia et al., vol. 134, WIT Press, 2010, pp. 27–38, doi:10.2495/SII00031.
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- Chellattan Veettil, P., Frija, A., Speelman, S., Buysse, J., & Van Huylenbroeck, G. (2010). Farmers’ preferences for irrigation water demand management tools: a Bayesian analysis of choice behaviour of farmers in Krishna river basin, India. In C. Brebbia, A. Marinov, & H. Bjornlund (Eds.), WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment (Vol. 134, pp. 27–38). https://doi.org/10.2495/SII00031
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- Chellattan Veettil, Prakashan, Aymen Frija, Stijn Speelman, Jeroen Buysse, and Guido Van Huylenbroeck. 2010. “Farmers’ Preferences for Irrigation Water Demand Management Tools: A Bayesian Analysis of Choice Behaviour of Farmers in Krishna River Basin, India.” In WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, edited by CA Brebbia, AM Marinov, and H Bjornlund, 134:27–38. Southampton, UK: WIT Press. https://doi.org/10.2495/SII00031.
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- Chellattan Veettil, Prakashan, Aymen Frija, Stijn Speelman, Jeroen Buysse, and Guido Van Huylenbroeck. 2010. “Farmers’ Preferences for Irrigation Water Demand Management Tools: A Bayesian Analysis of Choice Behaviour of Farmers in Krishna River Basin, India.” In WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, ed by. CA Brebbia, AM Marinov, and H Bjornlund, 134:27–38. Southampton, UK: WIT Press. doi:10.2495/SII00031.
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- 1.Chellattan Veettil P, Frija A, Speelman S, Buysse J, Van Huylenbroeck G. Farmers’ preferences for irrigation water demand management tools: a Bayesian analysis of choice behaviour of farmers in Krishna river basin, India. In: Brebbia C, Marinov A, Bjornlund H, editors. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment. Southampton, UK: WIT Press; 2010. p. 27–38.
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- [1]P. Chellattan Veettil, A. Frija, S. Speelman, J. Buysse, and G. Van Huylenbroeck, “Farmers’ preferences for irrigation water demand management tools: a Bayesian analysis of choice behaviour of farmers in Krishna river basin, India,” in WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, Bucharest, Romania, 2010, vol. 134, pp. 27–38.
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abstract = {{Policy designers have various water demand management (WDM) strategies to achieve efficient water use and allocation at their disposal, such as setting the price of water, decentralizing irrigation water management or improving the quality of water rights. Interestingly, most of these strategies have been applied individually without focusing on the relations between them. This paper uses a discrete choice model to analyse the scope for and the farmers acceptance of combinations of irrigation WDM tools. In terms of local irrigation water governance the presence or absence of collective irrigation water management among farmers in the form of water user association (WUA) is considered. Water rights are specified by the duration of the title, by their transferability and by the quality of title. Finally, four types of water pricing methods (area, crop, quota and volumetric pricing) are selected for the experimental design. Using the choice experiment we can elicit the most preferred water pricing method under different water rights, water prices and local irrigation water governance contexts. Our results indicated that under conditions of improved water rights, preference for volumetric pricing increases, while the presence of a WUA decreases this preference. We also showed that making the right combination of WDM tools considerably increases the willingness to pay for a change in scenario.}},
author = {{Chellattan Veettil, Prakashan and Frija, Aymen and Speelman, Stijn and Buysse, Jeroen and Van Huylenbroeck, Guido}},
booktitle = {{WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment}},
editor = {{Brebbia, CA and Marinov, AM and Bjornlund, H}},
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keywords = {{local water governance,water rights,complementarity,water pricing method,choice experiment,willingness to pay,VALUATION,PRICING POLICIES,MULTINOMIAL PROBIT MODEL}},
language = {{eng}},
location = {{Bucharest, Romania}},
pages = {{27--38}},
publisher = {{WIT Press}},
title = {{Farmers' preferences for irrigation water demand management tools: a Bayesian analysis of choice behaviour of farmers in Krishna river basin, India}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.2495/SII00031}},
volume = {{134}},
year = {{2010}},
}
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