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Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) 2011-02-02T10:05:17Z 2011-02-02T10:05:17Z 2005 Genre/Form: info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Material Type: Internet resource Document Type: Internet Resource, Archival Material All Authors / Contributors: Calatrava Leyva, Javier; Sayadi, Samir OCLC Number: 828883251 Language Note: English Notes: application/pdf Abstract: [ENG] This paper reports a survey of how 64 tropical fruit growers from the Granada coast of Spain use and value their water resources. This area produces crops of high added value. The agricultural demand for water is ever increasing and is much greater than the actual supply. This problem is worsened by the infiltration of seawater into the aquifers that provide most of the irrigation water for the area. Moreover, the population increases five-fold in the summer due to tourism, further aggravating the problem of water scarcity. Technical innovations, especially the reuse of urban wastewater, and economic solutions, namely increasing the price of water, have been proposed under the European Union Water Framework Directive. The main questions in the survey are described and the responses analysed. The productive, technological and resource management characteristics that determine the growers’ expressed willingness to pay for the water they use, as well as their attitude towards the use of alternative sources (such as residual water) are examined. Finally, the marginal product value of irrigation water in the area is calculated. [This paper reports a survey of how 64 tropical fruit growers from the Granada coast of Spain use and value their water resources. This area produces crops of high added value. The agricultural demand for water is ever increasing and is much greater than the actual supply. This problem is worsened by the infiltration of seawater into the aquifers that provide most of the irrigation water for the area. Moreover, the population increases five-fold in the summer due to tourism, further aggravating the problem of water scarcity. Technical innovations, especially the reuse of urban wastewater, and economic solutions, namely increasing the price of water, have been proposed under the European Union Water Framework Directive. The main questions in the survey are described and the responses analysed. The productive, technological and resource manageThis work was performed as part of INIA Project SC99-061

Title : Economic valuation of water and «willingness to pay» analysis with repect to tropical fruit production in southeastern Spain
Author : Calatrava Leyva, Javier; Sayadi, Samir
Language : en
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