Information provision and willingness to pay irrigation water in Tunisian local associations for agricultural development: an experimental economics study

Fourniture d’information et consentement à payer l’eau d’irrigation dans les groupements de développement agricole tunisiens. Une étude par l’économie expérimentale

Stefano Farolfi (), Dimitri Dubois (), Sylvie Morardet (), Imen Nouichi and Serge Marlet ()
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Sylvie Morardet: UR IRMO - Irrigation - CEMAGREF - Centre national du machinisme agricole, du génie rural, des eaux et forêts
Imen Nouichi: UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - AgroParisTech - IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
Serge Marlet: UMR G-EAU - Gestion de l'Eau, Acteurs, Usages - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - AgroParisTech - IRSTEA - Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier

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Abstract: Irrigation water is a crucial resource for economic and social development in Tunisia. In a context of decentralization and State devolution, the local associations for agricultural development or 'Groupements de Développement Agricole (GDA)' manage today a large share of irrigation water in the country. However, these institutions are experiencing a lack of acknowledgment by water users, resulting in a low willingness to pay (WTP) for water. In this article we study to what extent information provided to users on the functioning of the system (« institutional » information) and/or on the decisions taken by other users (« social » information) can affect their WTP. Our analysis is twofold. A field survey first revealed the farmers' demand for better information provision. A laboratory experiment allowed then to isolate the impact of the two types of information on subjects' decisions through a game with similar properties to those observed in the field. Data collected in the lab confirm the existence of a causality relation between information provided to users and their WTP for a common resource such as irrigation water.

Keywords: information; irrigation; Tunisie; économie expérimentale; eau (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Cahiers Agricultures, 2018, 27 (2), pp.25001. ⟨10.1051/cagri/2018007⟩

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DOI: 10.1051/cagri/2018007

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