The Spanish path of agrarian change, 1950–2005: From authoritarian to export‐oriented productivism

Clar, Ernesto; Martín-Retortillo, Miguel; Pinilla, Vicente

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“…In Spain, the relative good climatic conditions (sunshine hours, mild temperatures, etc. ), despite the associated aridity, and the hydraulic infrastructure to store and distribute water resources have also favored the development of the agri-food system [40,41] involving pressures on water.…”

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Income, Economic Structure and Trade: Impacts on Recent Water Use Trends in the European Union

2018

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From the mid-1990s to the recent international economic crisis, the European Union (EU27) experienced a significant economic growth and a flat population increase. During these years, the water resources directly used by the EU countries displayed a growing but smooth trend. However, European activities intensively demanded water resources throughout the whole global supply chain. The growth rate of embodied water use was three times higher than the growth in water directly used by these economies. This was mainly due to the large upsurge of virtual water imports in the EU (e.g., about 25% of the change in water imports in the world was directly linked to the increasing imports in the EU27 countries). In this context, we analyze water use changes in the EU27 from 1995 to 2009, combining the production and consumption perspectives. To that aim, we use the environmentally extended input-output approach to obtain the volume of water embodied in domestic production and in trade flows at the sector and country levels. In the empirical analysis, we utilize multi-regional input-output data from the World Input Output Database. In addition, by means of a structural decomposition analysis we identify and quantify the factors explaining changes in these trends. We focus both on the role of domestic production and trade and estimate the associated intensity, technology and scale effects. This analysis is done for different clusters, identifying singular patterns depending on income criteria. Our results confirm the boost of demand growth in that period, the positive but negligible effect of structural change, and the decline in water intensity which, however, was not enough to compensate the effects on water associated to the economic expansion in the period. These findings also point at a gradual substitution of domestic water use for virtual water imports. More concretely, in most countries the food industry tended to reduce its backward linkages with the domestic agricultural sector, increasing the embodied water in agricultural imports from non-European regions.

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2018

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“…El dominio de los frutales y los productos hortícolas en la distribución de la producción agrícola ha sustituido con el paso de los años en la distribución del producto agrícola al de cereales. El cambio en la estructura de producción agrícola de España a lo largo del siglo XX y principios del XXI ha sido posible gracias a la importante inversión pública en infraestructura básica de agua y riego, tal y como describen Clar et al (2018). La gran expansión del regadío motivaría que más de dos terceras partes del aumento de la producción agrícola entre 1955 y 2006 se debiese a la extensión del riego, destacando las provincias de Murcia y Almería (Clar et al, 2018;pp.…”

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La inserción de China en el mercado internacional del ajo. Un análisis descriptivo, 1960-2014

Moruno

Preciado

Hidalgo

2020

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This article analyzes the changes in the global garlic business between 1960 and 2014, addressing both the global supply, concentrated in Asia especially since the 1990s, and the demand, the latter, although also led by Asia, much more dispersed in geographical terms, in line with the greater presence in the import trade of some European and American economies. In this context, Spain has managed to maintain its share in the world market, currently positioning itself as the second largest exporting country in the world, being surpassed only by China.

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“…During the Second Republic (1931)(1932)(1933)(1934)(1935)(1936)(1937)(1938)(1939) and the post-war years, governments pushed forward a large-scale vision which saw water resources as a crucial factor for the economic and social development (Molle, Mollinga, Wester, 2009), resulting in massive public investment aimed at expanding irrigation. In the second half of the 20 th century, "irrigation constituted the principal area of public agricultural investment" (Clar, Martín-Retortillo and Pinilla, 2018). The relationship with LIAs, however, remained ambiguous.…”

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Farmers’ autonomous management or state regulation? The consolidation of local irrigation associations in Spain (nineteenth to twentieth centuries)

Giner

D'amaro

2019

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The collective management of irrigation is an essential factor in agrarian development, both present and past. However, the relationship of irrigation associations with the state remains underexplored, despite the increasingly important role played by water policies in the modern world. The present article examines this relationship in Spain over the last two centuries. Our results suggest that, first, the state played a decisive part in the emergence and evolution of irrigation associations, and this belies the assumption of the traditional origin of these institutions; second, that farmers, despite being subject to the regulatory framework, enjoyed substantial autonomy in the management of water resources; and, third, that the relationship between local associations and the state changed over time, in response to political regime changes and the transformation of irrigation agriculture. When the state tried to impose authoritarian policies upon irrigation users, these reacted by developing unprecedented forms of organisation.

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The Spanish path of agrarian change, 1950–2005: From authoritarian to export‐oriented productivism

Cited by 25 publications

References 28 publications

Income, Economic Structure and Trade: Impacts on Recent Water Use Trends in the European Union

Income, Economic Structure and Trade: Impacts on Recent Water Use Trends in the European Union

La inserción de China en el mercado internacional del ajo. Un análisis descriptivo, 1960-2014

Farmers’ autonomous management or state regulation? The consolidation of local irrigation associations in Spain (nineteenth to twentieth centuries)

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