Rural livelihoods displacement and mal-adaptation due to large-scale modern irrigation in Navarre, Spain

IF 4.7 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Environmental Development Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI:10.1016/j.envdev.2024.100987
Amaia Albizua , H.M. Tuihedur Rahman , Esteve Corbera , Unai Pascual
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The introduction and expansion of large-scale modern irrigation technology is often justified on the grounds of agricultural productivity and, more recently, climate change adaptation. However, the impacts of its accompanying process of agricultural intensification are seldom analysed from a social-ecological lens. Here we explore the effects of a large-scale modern irrigation (LSMI) project on farming livelihoods in Navarre, Spain. We identify farmers’ main livelihood and land management strategies to show how they are affected by the adoption of LSMI technology. We show that the development of the LSMI project contributes to change farm management practices in ways that simplify cropping patterns while displacing some farmers towards drylands and forcing others to sell their arable lands. Furthermore, we suggest that the LSMI project adopters may become more sensitive to climate change in the long term. In light of these findings, we argue that LSMI projects, and irrigation policy more broadly, may be inadvertently eroding traditional and less intensive small-scale farming while contributing to land accumulation by large-scale and pro-intensification farmers. These processes may be sowing the seeds of future rural vulnerabilities under accelerating climate change.

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西班牙纳瓦拉大规模现代灌溉导致的农村生计转移和适应不良
引入和扩大大规模现代灌溉技术的理由通常是为了提高农业生产率,最近则是为了适应气候变化。然而,人们很少从社会生态学的角度分析与之相伴的农业集约化进程的影响。在此,我们探讨了大规模现代灌溉(LSMI)项目对西班牙纳瓦拉地区农业生计的影响。我们确定了农民的主要生计和土地管理策略,以说明他们如何受到 LSMI 技术的影响。我们的研究表明,LSMI 项目的发展有助于改变农业管理方式,简化种植模式,同时将一些农民赶往旱地,迫使另一些农民出售耕地。此外,我们还发现,从长远来看,LSMI 项目的采用者可能会对气候变化更加敏感。鉴于这些发现,我们认为,LSMI 项目以及更广泛的灌溉政策可能在无意中侵蚀了传统的、集约程度较低的小规模耕作,同时助长了大规模和支持集约化的农民的土地积累。在气候变化加速的情况下,这些过程可能会为未来农村的脆弱性埋下种子。
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Environmental Development
Environmental Development Social Sciences-Geography, Planning and Development
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62
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74 days
期刊介绍: Environmental Development provides a future oriented, pro-active, authoritative source of information and learning for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and managers, and bridges the gap between fundamental research and the application in management and policy practices. It stimulates the exchange and coupling of traditional scientific knowledge on the environment, with the experiential knowledge among decision makers and other stakeholders and also connects natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences. Environmental Development includes and promotes scientific work from the non-western world, and also strengthens the collaboration between the developed and developing world. Further it links environmental research to broader issues of economic and social-cultural developments, and is intended to shorten the delays between research and publication, while ensuring thorough peer review. Environmental Development also creates a forum for transnational communication, discussion and global action. Environmental Development is open to a broad range of disciplines and authors. The journal welcomes, in particular, contributions from a younger generation of researchers, and papers expanding the frontiers of environmental sciences, pointing at new directions and innovative answers. All submissions to Environmental Development are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, originality, precision, importance of topic and insights, clarity of exposition, which are in keeping with the journal''s aims and scope.
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