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 ()
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Julia de Frutos Cachorro: UGENT - Universiteit Gent = Ghent University = Université de Gand
Mabel Tidball: LAMETA - Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - UM1 - Université Montpellier 1 - UPVM - Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - UM - Université de Montpellier - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier

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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: NAPPE; DE; BEAUCE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-01-06
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Published in European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 44 (1), pp.99-120. ⟨10.1093/erae/jbw005⟩

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DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbw005

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