Livestock water productivity in the Blue Nile Basin: assessment of farm scale heterogeneity

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.countryEgypt
cg.coverage.countrySudan
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2EG
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2SD
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionNorthern Africa
cg.creator.identifierAmare Haileslassie: 0000-0001-5237-9006
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1071/rj09006en
cg.issn1036-9872en
cg.issue2en
cg.journalRangeland Journalen
cg.river.basinNILEen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCK-WATERen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.ilriWATERen
cg.subject.ilriRANGELANDSen
cg.volume31en
dc.contributor.authorHaileslassie, Amareen
dc.contributor.authorPeden, Donald G.en
dc.contributor.authorGebreselassie, S.en
dc.contributor.authorAmede, Tilahunen
dc.contributor.authorWagnew, A.en
dc.contributor.authorTaddesse, G.en
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-28T17:32:11Zen
dc.date.available2009-11-28T17:32:11Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147
dc.titleLivestock water productivity in the Blue Nile Basin: assessment of farm scale heterogeneityen
dcterms.abstractA recent study of the livestock water productivity (LWP), at higher spatial scales in the Blue Nile Basin, indicated strong variability across regions. To get an insight into the causes of this variability, we examined the effect of farm households’ access to productive resources (e.g. land, livestock) on LWP in potato–barley, barley–wheat, teff–millet and rice farming systems of the Gumera watershed (in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia). We randomly selected 180 farm households. The sizes of the samples, in each system, were proportional to the respective system’s area. Then we grouped the samples, using a participatory wealth ranking method, into three wealth groups (rich, medium and poor) and used structured and pre-tested questionnaires to collect data on crops and livestock management and applied reference evapotranspiration (ET0) and crop coefficient (Kc) approaches to estimate depleted (evapotranspiration) water in producing animal feed and food crops. Then, we estimated LWP as a ratio of livestock’s beneficial outputs to water depleted. Our results suggest strong variability of LWP across the different systems: ranging between 0.3 and 0.6 US$ m-3 year-1. The tendency across different farming systems was comparable with results from previous studies at higher spatial scales. The range among different wealth groups was wider (0.1 to 0.6 US$ m-3 year-1) than among the farming systems. This implies that aggregating water productivity (to a system scale) masks hotspots and bright spots. Our result also revealed a positive trend between water productivity (LWP and crop water productivity, CWP) and farm households’ access to resources. Thus, we discuss our findings in relation to poverty alleviation and integrated land and water management to combat unsustainable water management practices in the Blue Nile Basin.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHaileslassie, A., Peden, D., Gebreselassie, S., Amede, T., Wagnew, A., & Taddesse, G. (2009). Livestock water productivity in the Blue Nile Basin: assessment of farm scale heterogeneity. The Rangeland Journal, 31(2), 213. https://doi.org/10.1071/rj09006en
dcterms.extentp. 213-222en
dcterms.issued2009
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherCSIRO Publishingen
dcterms.replaceshttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/40613en
dcterms.subjectlivestocken
dcterms.subjectfeedsen
dcterms.subjectwater productivityen
dcterms.subjectfarming systemsen
dcterms.subjectcrop managementen
dcterms.subjectevapotranspirationen
dcterms.subjectriver basinsen
dcterms.subjectland useen
dcterms.subjectpovertyen
dcterms.subjectwater depletionen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjectsurveysen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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