A dynamic model of irrigation and land-use choice: application to the Beauce aquifer in France | Zendy

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A dynamic model of irrigation and land-use choice: application to the Beauce aquifer in France

Author(s) -

Julia de Frutos Cachorro,

Katrin Erdlenbruch,

Mabel Tidball

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

european review of agricultural economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.4

H-Index - 60

eISSN - 1464-3618

pISSN - 0165-1587

DOI - 10.1093/erae/jbw005

Subject(s) - irrigation , context (archaeology) , aquifer , water resource management , set (abstract data type) , construct (python library) , abstraction , dynamic programming , water table , center pivot irrigation , agricultural engineering , computer science , environmental science , economics , hydrology (agriculture) , mathematics , mathematical optimization , groundwater , geography , geology , engineering , ecology , philosophy , geotechnical engineering , archaeology , epistemology , biology , programming language

We set up a model of land-use and irrigation water choices to assess the impact of dry weather conditions and possible restriction policies on farmers' payoffs in the Beauce area in France. Given the informational context, we construct a dynamic two-period model in which farmers make conjectures on the water abstraction by other users and take into account variations in the height of the water table. We solve the problem using dynamic programming. We simulate different restriction policies, proposed in the literature and tested in the field. We show that these restrictions, although efficient with respect to hydrological criteria, result in serious economic losses for the farmers

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