期刊名称：Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics
电子版ISSN：2006-9774
出版年度：2014
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：12-21
DOI：10.5897/JDAE2013.0499
语种：English
出版社：Academic Journals
摘要：Poverty is of multidimensional characteristics affecting nearly a billion world population. Especially, a third of sub Saharans fall under poverty. The emergence of climate change coupled with the incidence of drought, are worsening the situation. The only option to escape this challenge is through the development of water resource projects. In attempting to do so, Ethiopia has yet developed not more than 5% of the irrigation potential. Much of this is owned and poorly managed by small holder farmers. The purpose of this study is thus to investigate whether small scale irrigation schemes contribute to poverty reduction or not. Based on 313 sample households from the Rift Valley Lake Basins, it was observed that irrigation improved household income and contributed to poverty reduction. However, the enhanced poverty impact of irrigation was constrained due to unsatisfactory performance and imperfect market. Thus, enhancing the capacity of water user associations through provision of training, market linkage and finance are a necessary step to improve irrigation performance towards poverty reduction.
