The impact of social networks on electric pump adoption and irrigation access in Bangladesh's informal water markets

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Water Management Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeTransforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia
cg.coverage.countryBangladesh
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BD
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.creator.identifierAvinash Kishore: 0000-0003-4625-4922en
cg.creator.identifierBanerjee, Anurag: 0000-0002-8072-7423en
cg.creator.identifierAditi Mukherji: 0000-0002-8061-4349en
cg.creator.identifierJoel Botai: 0000-0002-0695-2489en
cg.creator.identifierSHREYA CHAKRABORTY: 0009-0009-3611-8135en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategies and Governance Uniten
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden
cg.identifier.urlhttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5076299en
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
dc.contributor.authorDeepak Varshneyen
dc.contributor.authorBanerjee, Anuragen
dc.contributor.authorChakraborty, Shreyaen
dc.contributor.authorKishore, Avinashen
dc.contributor.authorManikanta Radhakrishnaen
dc.contributor.authorMukherji, Aditien
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-26T22:18:46Zen
dc.date.available2025-01-26T22:18:46Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/170018
dc.titleThe impact of social networks on electric pump adoption and irrigation access in Bangladesh's informal water marketsen
dcterms.abstractThis study examines the role of social networks in the adoption of electric pumps and water buyers' access to irrigation water through electric pumps in Bangladesh. Despite government efforts, adoption rates have remained low (2.5%), especially among small and marginal farmers. Using a "networks within sample" approach, we surveyed 1,225 farmers in 60 villages across Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions of Northwest Bangladesh, gathering information on social interactions among the surveyed farmers within each village. Our analysis reveals significant positive network effects: having an electric pump owner in one's social network increases the likelihood of adoption. Network effects on irrigation market access are more pronounced within the same land size class compared to social interactions across different classes. Notably, the impact on water buyers' access to irrigation through electric pumps is less pronounced when small farmers socially interact with large farmer pump owners in their social network than when the situation is reversed.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2024-10-30en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationVarshney, D., Banerjee, A., Chakraborty, S., Kishore, A., Radhakrishna, M., & Mukherji, A. (2024) The impact of social networks on electric pump adoption and irrigation access in Bangladesh's informal water markets. https://ssrn.com/abstract=5076299en
dcterms.issued2024en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseOther
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.subjectsocial networksen
dcterms.subjectirrigationen
dcterms.subjectwater marketsen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectirrigation equipmenten
dcterms.subjectpumpsen
dcterms.typePreprint

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