Sustainable agriculture in the Blue Nile Basin: Land and watershed management practices in Ethiopia

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dc.creatorSchmidt, Emily
dc.creatorTadesse, Fanaye
dc.date2014
dc.date2024-08-01T02:51:09Z
dc.date2024-08-01T02:51:09Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:44:37Z
dc.descriptionThe trade-off between short-term welfare and long-term agricultural development in the highlands of Ethiopia represents a challenge to successful economic development in a predominantly agriculture-based economy. We employ nearest neighbor and kernel-based matching techniques to measure the impact of sustainable land and watershed management (SLWM) on the value of production at the plot level. Analysis suggests that plots that received SLWM investments (terraces, bunds, check dams) within the first study period (1992–2002) had a 24 per cent higher value of production in 2010. In addition, continuous treatment effects analysis provides a robustness check and suggests that plots with existing SLWM infrastructure have a positive and increasing value of production seven years after construction. Although value of production increases over time, net benefits may not outweigh costs, and mechanisms to incentivize maintenance may be needed.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/150251
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/113361
dc.languageen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.rightsLimited Access
dc.sourceSchmidt, Emily; and Tadesse, Fanaye. 2014. Sustainable agriculture in the Blue Nile Basin: Land and watershed management practices in Ethiopia. Environment and Development Economics 19(5): 648-667. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1355770x13000570
dc.subjectland management
dc.subjectblue nile river
dc.subjectwatershed management
dc.subjectsustainable agriculture
dc.titleSustainable agriculture in the Blue Nile Basin: Land and watershed management practices in Ethiopia
dc.typeJournal Article

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