This study uses Tobit and Logit models to examine the impacts of selected small-scale irrigation schemes in the Lake Tana basin of Ethiopia on household income and the likelihood of poverty, respectively.
Data for these analyses were collected from a sample of 180 households. Households using any of the four irrigation systems had statistically significantly higher mean total gross household income than households not using irrigation. The marginal impact of small-scale irrigation on gross household income indicated that each small scale-irrigation user increased mean annual household income by ETB 3353 per year, a 27% increase over income for non-irrigating households.
A Logit regression model indicated that access to irrigation significantly reduced the odds that a household would be in the lowest quartile of household income, the poverty threshold used in this study. Households using concrete canal river diversion had higher mean cropping income per household than those using other irrigation types.
Key challenges to further enhancing the benefits of irrigation in the region include water seepage, equity of water distribution, availability of irrigation equipment, marketing of irrigated crops and crop diseases facilitated by irrigation practices.
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This paper was first presented at the Nile Basin Development Challenge Science meeting. The NBDC Science meeting was held on 9 and 10 July 2013 at the ILRI-Ethiopia campus, with the objectives to exchange experiences and research results across NBDC scientists involved in the NBDC projects and to discuss challenges and possible solutions.
February 12, 2014 at 11:39 am
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February 23, 2014 at 4:31 pm
Dear authors, could you please share your findings (PDF) ?
am working similar work here in Southern Ethiopia, “impacts of irrigation schemes on household income and livelihood”
Thanks,
Genene (genenetseg@gmail.com)
February 24, 2014 at 2:59 am
Dear Genene,
If you click on the link provided in the post above: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/33929
You can download the PDF (under ‘Files in this item’).
The direct link to download the PDF version of this paper is: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/bitstream/handle/10568/33929/NBDCtechReport5.pdf?sequence=1
March 12, 2014 at 6:18 am
Thank you Ewen, I got the whole proceeding and the paper am interested on. Am looking at impact of irrigation on household income using odds ratio and marginal effect. I will ask you some technical aspects while am finishing the data collection. Of course mine is focus on impacts of traditional and small-scale irrigation schemes, taking the rainfed agriculture/non-user as control.
October 6, 2015 at 1:32 pm
Dear authors, could you please share your findings (PDF) ?
am working similar work here in Horo Guduru Wellega, “impacts of irrigation schemes on household income and productivity”
Thanks,