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- Title
Farmers' vulnerability to global change in Navarre, Spain: large-scale irrigation as maladaptation.
- Authors
Albizua, Amaia; Corbera, Esteve; Pascual, Unai
- Abstract
Agricultural landscapes are dynamic environments which change in response to cropping and trade opportunities, available technologies and climatic conditions. In this article, we investigate farmers' vulnerability to climate-related stressors and crop price volatility in rural Navarre, Spain. Specifically, we analyse the extent to which livelihood differences and vulnerability can be partly explained by the development of a large-scale irrigation project promoted by the Spanish and regional governments. Grounded on qualitative and quantitative data gathered across 22 villages, we demonstrate that small-scale diversified farmers appear the most vulnerable and least able to adapt to climate-related stressors and crop price volatility. In contrast, more market-driven, large-scale intensive farmers, who participate in the irrigation project, are the least vulnerable to these stressors. We argue that the irrigation project has increased the short-term adaptive capacity of irrigation adopters while establishing the institutional conditions for the displacement of small-scale farming. Therefore, we suggest that farmers' vulnerability in Navarre can be explained by maladaptive irrigation policies designed to favour large-scale and market-driven agriculture.
- Subjects
NAVARRE (Spain); FARMERS' attitudes; GLOBAL environmental change; PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability; SOCIAL adjustment; IRRIGATION
- Publication
Regional Environmental Change, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 4, p1147
- ISSN
1436-3798
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10113-019-01462-2