Using a randomized evaluation in Kenya, we measure health impacts of spring protection, an investment that improves source water quality. We also estimate households' valuation of spring protection and simulate the welfare impacts of alternatives to the current system of common property rights in water, which limits incentives for private investment. Spring infrastructure investments reduce fec...

Water scarcity constitutes a crucial constraint for agriculture productivity. High-throughput approaches in model plant species identified hundreds of genes potentially involved in survival under drought, but few having beneficial effects on quality and yield. Nonetheless, controlled water deficit may improve fruit quality through higher concentration of flavor compounds. The underlying genetic...

Abstract Water scarcity poses one of the most prominent threats to well-being smallholder farmers around world. We studied association between rural livelihood capitals (natural, human, social, financial, and physical) resilience water scarcity. Resilience was denoted by farmers’ self-reported capacity have avoided, or adapted to, Proxies for were collected from two-hundred in South Sulawesi, I...