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

Julia de Frutos Cachorro, Katrin Erdlenbruch and Mabel Tidball ()

European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2017, vol. 44, issue 1, 99-120

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: groundwater management; hydro-agro-economic model; dynamic programming; irrigation; Beauce aquifer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 Q15 Q25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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