Understanding farmers’ adaptation to water scarcity: a case study from the western Nile Delta, Egypt
This study was undertaken to analyze farmers’ adaption to water scarcity in the command area of a secondary canal in the Nile Delta of Egypt. The results revealed that farmers’ responses were driven by a multiplicity of factors, beyond water scarcity or profit maximization. These additional factors...
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International Water Management Institute
2014
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| author | Ghazouani, Wafa Molle, Francois Swelam, A. Rap, Edwin Abdo, A. |
| author_browse | Abdo, A. Ghazouani, Wafa Molle, Francois Rap, Edwin Swelam, A. |
| author_facet | Ghazouani, Wafa Molle, Francois Swelam, A. Rap, Edwin Abdo, A. |
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| description | This study was undertaken to analyze farmers’ adaption to water scarcity in the command area of a secondary canal in the Nile Delta of Egypt. The results revealed that farmers’ responses were driven by a multiplicity of factors, beyond water scarcity or profit maximization. These additional factors include food security of the family, risk management, social capital and history of farmers, and most unexpectedly the collective dimension of crop choice. The findings of this study expose the limitations of projects, modeling exercises or policy recommendations that are too often based on the oversimplified view of profit maximization as the basis of farming system dynamics. |
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| spelling | CGSpace653572025-11-07T08:58:32Z Understanding farmers’ adaptation to water scarcity: a case study from the western Nile Delta, Egypt Ghazouani, Wafa Molle, Francois Swelam, A. Rap, Edwin Abdo, A. water scarcity water availability deltas canals farmers adaptation conflict crop management yields irrigation water irrigated farming food security drainage water pumps cost benefit analysis profitability case studies This study was undertaken to analyze farmers’ adaption to water scarcity in the command area of a secondary canal in the Nile Delta of Egypt. The results revealed that farmers’ responses were driven by a multiplicity of factors, beyond water scarcity or profit maximization. These additional factors include food security of the family, risk management, social capital and history of farmers, and most unexpectedly the collective dimension of crop choice. The findings of this study expose the limitations of projects, modeling exercises or policy recommendations that are too often based on the oversimplified view of profit maximization as the basis of farming system dynamics. 2014 2015-04-30T13:44:10Z 2015-04-30T13:44:10Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/65357 en Open Access application/pdf International Water Management Institute Ghazouani, Wafa [IWMI]; Molle, Francois [IWMI]; Swelam, A.; Rap, Edwin [IWMI]; Abdo, A. [NARS]; 2014. Understanding farmers’ adaptation to water scarcity: a case study from the western Nile Delta, Egypt. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 31p. (IWMI Research Report 160) 10.5337/2015.200 |
| spellingShingle | water scarcity water availability deltas canals farmers adaptation conflict crop management yields irrigation water irrigated farming food security drainage water pumps cost benefit analysis profitability case studies Ghazouani, Wafa Molle, Francois Swelam, A. Rap, Edwin Abdo, A. Understanding farmers’ adaptation to water scarcity: a case study from the western Nile Delta, Egypt |
| title | Understanding farmers’ adaptation to water scarcity: a case study from the western Nile Delta, Egypt |
| title_full | Understanding farmers’ adaptation to water scarcity: a case study from the western Nile Delta, Egypt |
| title_fullStr | Understanding farmers’ adaptation to water scarcity: a case study from the western Nile Delta, Egypt |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding farmers’ adaptation to water scarcity: a case study from the western Nile Delta, Egypt |
| title_short | Understanding farmers’ adaptation to water scarcity: a case study from the western Nile Delta, Egypt |
| title_sort | understanding farmers adaptation to water scarcity a case study from the western nile delta egypt |
| topic | water scarcity water availability deltas canals farmers adaptation conflict crop management yields irrigation water irrigated farming food security drainage water pumps cost benefit analysis profitability case studies |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/65357 |
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