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contact_email: Library-ICRISAT@CGIAR.ORG
creators_name: Nedumaran, S
creators_name: Singh, N P
icrisatcreators_name: Nedumaran, S
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
affiliation: ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research (New Delhi)
country: India
title: Trade-offs between non-farm income and on-farm soil and water conservation investments of smallholder farmers in the semi-arid tropics of India
ispublished: pub
subjects: GL1
subjects: S21
subjects: S40006
subjects: s2.14
subjects: wa1
divisions: CRPS4
full_text_status: restricted
keywords: Land degradation, soil and water conservation, non-farm income, bio economic model, Telangana, Kothapally watershed, Trade-off, Soil and water conservation (SWC), SAT region
note: The authors are thankful to the anonymous referees
for the comments on the earlier version of this paper.
abstract: This paper has examined the trade-off between non-farm income and on-farm soil and water conservation (SWC) investment by smallholder farmers in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) of India. A dynamic bio-economic simulation model has been used to assess the impact of improved off-farm employment opportunities on household welfare, land degradation and labour allocation for SWC activities. The simulation results has revealed that improved non-farm employment opportunities increase the household welfare but reduce the households’ incentives to deploy labour for soil and water conservation measures, leading to higher levels of soil erosion and rapid land degradation. The study has suggested that there is the need of other complementary policy interventions to protect the natural resource base because improvement in non farm income opportunities does not produce a win-win solution in the watershed in the SAT region.
date: 2017-07-17
date_type: published
publication: Agricultural Economics Research Review
volume: 30
number: 1
publisher: Agricultural Economics Research Association
pagerange: 47-56
id_number: 10.5958/0974-0279.2017.00004.0
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0971-3441
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0974-0279.2017.00004.0
related_url_url: https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?q=Trade-offs+between+Non-farm+Income+and+On-farm+Soil+and+Water+Conservation+Investments+of+Smallholder+Farmers+in+the+Semi-arid+Tropics+of+India&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2017
related_url_type: pub
citation:   Nedumaran, S and Singh, N P  (2017) Trade-offs between non-farm income and on-farm soil and water conservation investments of smallholder farmers in the semi-arid tropics of India.  Agricultural Economics Research Review, 30 (1).  pp. 47-56.  ISSN 0971-3441     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/10112/1/aerr-30-1-004.pdf