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DOI	10.3390/su12218914
	Adoption of Road Water Harvesting Practices and Their Impacts: Evidence from a Semi-Arid Region of Ethiopia
	Gebru, Kebede Manjur; Woldearegay, Kifle; van Steenbergen, Frank; Beyene, Aregawi; Vera, Letty Fajardo; Gebreegziabher, Kidane Tesfay; Alemayhu, Taye
通讯作者	Gebru, KM
来源期刊	SUSTAINABILITY
EISSN	2071-1050
出版年	2020
卷号	12 期号:21
英文摘要	In the drylands of Ethiopia, several road water harvesting practices (RWHP) have been used to supplement rain-fed agriculture. However, factors affecting adoption of RWHP and their impacts were not studied systematically. Understanding the factors influencing the adoption of RWHP for sustainable agricultural intensification and climate resilience is critical to promoting such technologies. This paper investigates the impacts of using rural roads to harvest rainwater runoff and the factors causing farmers to adopt the practice. Road water harvesting is considered a possible mechanism for transformative climate change adaptation. By systematically capturing rainfall with rural road infrastructure, rain-related road damage is reduced, erosion and landscape degradation due to road development is lessened, and farm incomes increase due to the beneficial use of harvested water, resulting in an increased climate change resilience. This paper uses a binary probit model and propensity score matching methods based on a household survey of 159 households and 603 plots. The results of the probit model show that the education level of the household, family labor, access to markets, and distance of the farming plot from the farmer's dwelling are statistically significant in explaining farmers' adoption of RWHP in the study area. The casual impact estimation from the propensity score matching suggests that RWHP has positive and significant impacts on input uses (farmyard manure and fertilizer), crop yield, and farm income among the sample households.
英文关键词	adoption farmyard manure fertilizer income Northern Ethiopia road water harvesting yield
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000589346400001
WOS关键词	TECHNOLOGIES ; IRRIGATION ; MANAGEMENT ; POVERTY ; AREAS
WOS类目	Green & Sustainable Science & Technology ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/327510
作者单位	[Gebru, Kebede Manjur; Beyene, Aregawi; Gebreegziabher, Kidane Tesfay] Mekelle Univ, Dept Rural Dev & Agr Extens, POB 231, Mekelle, Ethiopia; [Woldearegay, Kifle] Mekelle Univ, Sch Earth Sci, POB 231, Mekelle, Ethiopia; [van Steenbergen, Frank; Vera, Letty Fajardo; Alemayhu, Taye] MetaMeta Res, Postelstr 2, NL-5211 EA Shertogenbosch, Netherlands
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gebru, Kebede Manjur,Woldearegay, Kifle,van Steenbergen, Frank,et al. Adoption of Road Water Harvesting Practices and Their Impacts: Evidence from a Semi-Arid Region of Ethiopia[J],2020,12(21).
APA	Gebru, Kebede Manjur.,Woldearegay, Kifle.,van Steenbergen, Frank.,Beyene, Aregawi.,Vera, Letty Fajardo.,...&Alemayhu, Taye.(2020).Adoption of Road Water Harvesting Practices and Their Impacts: Evidence from a Semi-Arid Region of Ethiopia.SUSTAINABILITY,12(21).
MLA	Gebru, Kebede Manjur,et al."Adoption of Road Water Harvesting Practices and Their Impacts: Evidence from a Semi-Arid Region of Ethiopia".SUSTAINABILITY 12.21(2020).