TY  - JOUR
N2  - Contingent valuation is used to elicit irrigators? willingness to pay for soil moisture tools in irrigation schemes in Africa, with various
econometric methods employed to mitigate potential bias. Key
results include that there is a neighbourhood effect influencing adoption, and that being located downstream and spending more on irrigation water positively and statistically significantly influenced
willingness to pay for tools. The result suggests that
although focusing on economic incentives and promoting farmer learning by those using the tools may promote greater adoption, there is likely to still be a need for co-investment by other bodies.
N1  - The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research financed this research through the
Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa (TISA) projects FSC/2013/006 and LWR/2016/137. We also
thank all TISA project team members from Australia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Mozambique for
collecting the survey data and other contributions. Constructive comments from two anonymous
reviewers are also gratefully acknowledged.
AV  - public
KW  - Tanzania
KW  -  Zimbabwe
KW  -  Mozambique
KW  -  Irrigation
KW  -  Contingent
KW  -  Valuation
method; hypothetical bias
A1  - Abebe, F
A1  - Zuo, A
A1  - Ann Wheeler, S
A1  - Bjornlund, H
A1  - van Rooyen, A
A1  - Pittock, J
A1  - Mdemu, M
A1  - Chilundo, M
TI  - Irrigators? willingness to pay for the adoption of soil moisture monitoring tools in South-Eastern Africa
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2020.1755956
JF  - International Journal of Water Resources Development (TSI)
SP  - 1
Y1  - 2020/06//
ID  - icrisat11568
EP  - 22
SN  - 0790-0627
PB  - Routledge
ER  -