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

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作者
Albizua, Amaia [1 ,2 ]
Rahman, H. M. Tuihedur [3 ,4 ]
Corbera, Esteve [5 ,6 ]
Pascual, Unai [2 ,7 ,8 ]
机构
[1] Univ Basque Country, Dept Geog Prehist & Arqueol, C Tomas & Valiente S-N, Vitoria 01006, Spain
[2] Univ Basque Country, Basque Ctr Climate Change BC3, Sede Bldg 1,1st Floor, Leioa 48940, Spain
[3] Univ Saskatchewan, Dept Agr & Resource Econ, 51 Campus Dr, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8, Canada
[4] St Marys Univ, Dept Geog & Environm Studies, 923 Robie St, Halifax, NS B3H 3C3, Canada
[5] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Dept Geog, Bellaterra 08193, Spain
[6] Passeig Lluis Co, Inst Catalana Recerca & Estudis Avancats ICREA, Barcelona 08010, Spain
[7] Basque Sci Fdn, Ikerbasque, Maria Diaz Haro 3, Bilbao 48013, Spain
[8] Univ Bern, Ctr Dev & Environm, Bern, Switzerland
关键词
Agricultural intensification; Irrigation; Livelihoods; Sustainability; Climate change; Navarre; CLIMATE-CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; POLITICAL ECOLOGY; LAND; SUSTAINABILITY; ECONOMY; CONTEXT; POLICY;
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10.1016/j.envdev.2024.100987
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X [环境科学、安全科学];
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08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
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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