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Heterogeneous preferences for water rights reforms among smallholder irrigators in South Africa

Bio-based and Applied Economics

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Title Heterogeneous preferences for water rights reforms among smallholder irrigators in South Africa
 
Creator Speelman, Stijn
Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan
 
Subject choice modelling
latent class model
water rights reforms
smallholder irrigators
 
Description In the light of growing water scarcity appropriate institutional arrangements are needed to complement technical interventions, in order to ensure more efficient use and allocation of water in agriculture. A theoretically interesting institutional intervention is the installation or improvement of water rights, but the benefits of such intervention and their distribution are insufficiently researched. This paper contributes to the water rights literature by applying a state-of-the-art valuation method to a case study in South Africa. Using a latent class choice modelling approach the heterogeneity in the benefits generated by changes in water rights is investigated. Two segments could be distinguished in the sample population. While one of the segments has a lot to gain from a water rights reform, benefits for the other seem rather limited. Furthermore they clearly differ in preference for specific improvements. Such considerations should be taken into account in policy design.
 
Publisher Firenze University Press
 
Date 2013-05-17
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/3238
10.13128/BAE-11074
 
Source Bio-based and Applied Economics; Vol. 2 No. 2 (2013); 131-149
2280-6172
2280-6180
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/bae/article/view/3238/3238