Agricultural water governance assesment in related government organizations

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Agricultural macro management group, Agricultural Planning Economic and Rural Development Research Institute (APERDRI), Jihad agricutural Ministry, Tehran,Iran.

2 Rural Planning Group, Geography Department, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran,Iran.

10.22059/jwim.2024.372511.1147

Abstract

Maintaining water security along with food security, as two civilization-building areas, requires water governance and agriculture governance assessment. The research was a mixed type and was done under action research approach, apply literature review, semi-structured interviews, workshops with agriculture and water experts. While introducing the governance features, the relevant indicators in the form of researcher-made questionnaire has been measured in two chains of water supply and agricultural water consumption. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and its reliability with Cronbach's alpha of 0.933. The results of the evaluation of nine governance indexes in the water supply chain was (Min=1.72, Max=2.11) and the evaluation of 9 governance indexes results in the agricultural production chain was (Min=2.09, Max=2.49). The results indicate, the average score of the water supply organization in the direction of balancing water resources in recent decades is 1.9 (out of 5) and the average score of the agricultural production organization in the direction of improving agricultural water productivity is 2.3 (out of 5). So it is suggested to improve the capacity of the National Supreme Water Council in such a way that the effective participation of other government and NGOs be reviewed for designing a road map for improving agricultural water productivity and balancing underground water resources.

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Water and Irrigation Management
Volume 14, Issue 3
December 2024
Pages 727-741

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