Determinants of Households’ Willingness to Pay for Rehabilitation of Horuwa Watershed: The Case of Gombora District, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Shiferaw Teshale Erango

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Determinants of Households’ Willingness to Pay for Rehabilitation of Horuwa Watershed: The Case of Gombora District, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Shiferaw Teshale Erango

Published in International Journal of Business and Economics Research (Volume 11, Issue 4)

Received: 5 July 2022 Accepted: 16 August 2022 Published: 31 August 2022

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Communities benefit from a variety of ecosystem services provided by watersheds, which are often provided for free. Although these services have no monetary value, their economic value is debatable. As a result, natural resources are not used to their full potential, resulting in watershed deterioration. As a result, the purpose of this study is to apply the Double Bounded contingent valuation method, followed by open-ended questions, to assess households' willingness to pay for the rehabilitation of the Horuwa watershed. The study focuses on analysing households' willingness to pay decisions in order to elicit smallholder households' willingness to pay in terms of cash and labour, as well as to investigate determinants that influence smallholder households' maximum willingness to pay. Tobit regression models were used to assess data acquired via questionnaires, focus groups, and face-to-face interviews from 170 randomly selected households. The results showed that the first response is shared by 74.7% of Yes and 25.3% of No responses for watershed conservation in the double bounded contingent valuation of sampled households. According to the Tobit model, education level, household size, and annual income had a significant and positive effect on maximum willingness to pay, whereas non-farm income and initial bid had a significant and negative effect. As a result, the findings of the study imply that a household's perception of total watershed resource degradation is linked to Willingness to Pay. The findings suggest that policymakers at both the national and local levels should consider education level, annual income, household size, non-farm income, and initial bid variables when designing watershed conservation practices.

Published in	International Journal of Business and Economics Research (Volume 11, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijber.20221104.16
Page(s)	250-256
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Contingent Valuation, Rehabilitation, Tobit, Watershed, Willingness to Pay

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Shiferaw Teshale Erango. Determinants of Households’ Willingness to Pay for Rehabilitation of Horuwa Watershed: The Case of Gombora District, Hadiya Zone, Southern Ethiopia. Int J Bus Econ Res. 2022;11(4):250-256. doi: 10.11648/j.ijber.20221104.16

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