Funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3, Theme 10.
Funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3, Theme 10.
Water management policies for food security
Coordinator
Coordinator
Sustainable accountancy and accountability approaches for selected value chains with definition of tools, indicators, and data (primary and secondary) for measuring sustainability, short and long-distance value chains, and food environments (e.g., Life Cycle Assessment, CHG protocol, Risk-Benefit Assessment, Local Multiplier3, FAO-SAFA).
The last decades have seen a surge in policies promoting healthy and sustainable diets. T74.1 will: (1) review existing ex-post evaluations of public policies at the international level; (2) generate new evidence, using robust methods, evaluating international, European, and Italian national, regional policies.
Production of a set of policy-oriented guidelines and set of recommendations based on: (a) current national and international evidence-based; (b) findings and inputs from all tasks and activities, especially WP7.2, WP7.3 and Task 7.3.3; (c) proposals to modify existing legislation; (d) feedback from stakeholders and policymakers.
Technical report + dissemination document on policy recommendations (M36)
Water shortages and floods are increasingly common in developing and emerging economies. While there is an extensive literature on the socio-economic consequences of climate fluctuations, the impact of climate adaptation policies and technologies has received much less attention in empirical microeconomics.
We investigate the manifold effects of water management policies and technologies on various types of rural and behavioral outcomes. Specifically, we use the latest techniques in program evaluation and causal analysis to examine the impact of large-scale water and flood management projects such as dams – including dams for irrigation, rainwater containment, and electricity production.
In the empirical analysis, we focus on Brazil, as it provides both an interesting laboratory to evaluate specific policy interventions and extensive access to high-quality data.
The operational plan consists of three main phases:
The main objective of this project consists of furthering our understanding of the various types of consequences that water management interventions (e.g. dam construction) can have on rural life and rural livelihoods, and draw conclusions relevant beyond the context of Brazil.
Previous studies examined the impact of dams on agricultural output and rural incomes. This project will widen considerably the scope of potential outcomes – exploring effects on population (e.g. births), rural conflict, education, food security, and gender, amongst others.
Our findings will contribute to the (emerging) literatures on dams in agricultural and development economics. They will also lead to policy-relevant insights on how to mitigate the often-unintended consequences of dam construction in both emerging and advanced economies.
