Publication: Innovation in Irrigated Fields in a Semi-arid Region: Southeastern Spain Case
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Gil Meseguer, Encarnación ; Bernabé Crespo, Miguel Borja ; Gómez Espín, José María
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SAGE Publications
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©2022. This document is the Accepted version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in International Journal of Rural Management (IJRM). To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1177/0973005222112012
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In Spain, in the last 25 years (1996–2020), more than a million and a half hectares of irrigated land have been modernised with irrigation systems. Almost half of this irrigated surface is immersed in a second generation of modernisation in order to be more efficient and save water and energy. This represents a strategic issue in a climate crisis scenario, to assure the quantity and quality of the productions of these irrigable areas, bases of market supply, agro-industries and sources of employment. Throughout this process, innovation was experienced (pressure irrigation, deficit irrigation, accurate irrigation, fertigation and nutrient solution, energy self-consumption, new crop varieties, hydroponic cultivation with or without substratum, etc.). The drivers of these innovations are the harvesting-exporting companies and the irrigation communities. This research is a diachronic study of regional geography; data are provided by official statistics and through extensive fieldwork and interviews with managers. The objective is to explain the irrigation innovation techniques undertaken in the semi-arid environment of Southeastern Spain, one of the driest regions in Europe.
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