Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam

Manh Hung Do; Trung Thanh Nguyen

doi:10.1080/07900627.2023.2233645

Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam

Manh Hung Do
, Trung Thanh Nguyen^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute of Environmental Economics and World Trade

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Abstract

Water is critical for agriculture in developing countries and climate change has created more extreme weather events. In this study, we examine the role of villages’ year-round irrigation in ensuring households’ irrigation to cope with weather shocks and investigate the effects of irrigation on income and poverty of rural households. Our results show that the availability of villages’ year-round irrigation significantly increases the share of irrigated land area at the household level, which leads to higher crop income and household income, and lower poverty. Therefore, developing year-round irrigation is recommended.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	463-486
Number of pages	24
Journal	International Journal of Water Resources Development
Volume	40
Issue number	3
E-pub ahead of print	1 Aug 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2023.2233645
Publication status	Published - 2024

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Keywords

instrumental variable
irrigation water
multidimensional poverty
Thailand
Vietnam
weather shocks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Development
Water Science and Technology

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Weather shocks, irrigation development and poverty: evidence from rural Northeast Thailand and Central Vietnam

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