Study on the management of rural common property resources in developing countries

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26450326
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Agricultural science in rural society and development
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: KONDO Takumi 北海道大学, 農学研究院, 教授 (40178413)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 共有資源 / 灌漑システム / インドネシア

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We investigated the provision and the maintenance of common property resources, where the supply of goods and services tends to constitute a "tragedy of the commons" situation. We selected a water users’ association in Indonesia, in Central Java Province, as case studies. In recent years, new organization of irrigation management systems have been spreading rapidly in this area. Under this new organization, the irrigation association chief is elected based in the size of contribution competitively. Those who contribute the maximum investment to a village's infrastructure, can become the irrigation association chief. The irrigation association chief has incentives to supply irrigation services in order to acquire irrigation fees as income. We estimate the internal rate of return for chief’s investment. We found that the internal rate of return was 41%, higher than the average interest rate of 36% in the village financial market, revealing that it is economically rational behavior.

Free Research Field

農業経済学