Household and plot level impact of Sustainable Land and Watershed Management (SLWM) practices in the Blue Nile
Land degradation and water shortages are major issues in developing countries, contributing to reduced economic output, lower growth potential and increased poverty. The immediate trade-off between short-term welfare and long-term agricultural development in the highland regions of Ethiopia represen...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Schmidt, Emily Tadesse, Fanaye |
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| description | Land degradation and water shortages are major issues in developing countries, contributing to reduced economic output, lower growth potential and increased poverty. The immediate trade-off between short-term welfare and long-term agricultural development in the highland regions of Ethiopia represents a challenge to successful economic development in a predominantly agricultural-based economy. Although previous studies investigated countrylevel economic costs of sustainable land and watershed management (SLWM) in Ethiopia, few quantitative assessments of household level SLWM adoption and maintenance, linked to benefit payoff horizons and magnitude, exist in recent literature. We employ nearest-neighbor matching techniques to measure the impact of adopting specific SLWM technologies on value of production. Results suggest that households that adopted terraces, bunds, or check dams within the first period of the study period (1992– 2002) experience a 15.2 percent higher value of production in 2010, while late adopters (farmers that adopted SLWM between 2003–2009) have no significant increases in value of production. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1539532025-11-06T05:45:48Z Household and plot level impact of Sustainable Land and Watershed Management (SLWM) practices in the Blue Nile Schmidt, Emily Tadesse, Fanaye sustainability sustainable land management soil conservation water conservation impact assessment statistical methods watersheds agricultural production livestock households Land degradation and water shortages are major issues in developing countries, contributing to reduced economic output, lower growth potential and increased poverty. The immediate trade-off between short-term welfare and long-term agricultural development in the highland regions of Ethiopia represents a challenge to successful economic development in a predominantly agricultural-based economy. Although previous studies investigated countrylevel economic costs of sustainable land and watershed management (SLWM) in Ethiopia, few quantitative assessments of household level SLWM adoption and maintenance, linked to benefit payoff horizons and magnitude, exist in recent literature. We employ nearest-neighbor matching techniques to measure the impact of adopting specific SLWM technologies on value of production. Results suggest that households that adopted terraces, bunds, or check dams within the first period of the study period (1992– 2002) experience a 15.2 percent higher value of production in 2010, while late adopters (farmers that adopted SLWM between 2003–2009) have no significant increases in value of production. 2012 2024-10-01T13:58:35Z 2024-10-01T13:58:35Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153953 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ethiopian Development Research Institute Schmidt, Emily; Tadesse, Fanaye 2012. Household and plot level impact of Sustainable Land and Watershed Management (SLWM) practices in the Blue Nile. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153953 |
| spellingShingle | sustainability sustainable land management soil conservation water conservation impact assessment statistical methods watersheds agricultural production livestock households Schmidt, Emily Tadesse, Fanaye Household and plot level impact of Sustainable Land and Watershed Management (SLWM) practices in the Blue Nile |
| title | Household and plot level impact of Sustainable Land and Watershed Management (SLWM) practices in the Blue Nile |
| title_full | Household and plot level impact of Sustainable Land and Watershed Management (SLWM) practices in the Blue Nile |
| title_fullStr | Household and plot level impact of Sustainable Land and Watershed Management (SLWM) practices in the Blue Nile |
| title_full_unstemmed | Household and plot level impact of Sustainable Land and Watershed Management (SLWM) practices in the Blue Nile |
| title_short | Household and plot level impact of Sustainable Land and Watershed Management (SLWM) practices in the Blue Nile |
| title_sort | household and plot level impact of sustainable land and watershed management slwm practices in the blue nile |
| topic | sustainability sustainable land management soil conservation water conservation impact assessment statistical methods watersheds agricultural production livestock households |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153953 |
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