Exploring the concept of virtual water exports: Case of Mexican strawberry

Authors

  • Salvador Peniche Camps Departamento de Economía. Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas. Universidad de Guadalajara. Periférico Norte 799, esq. Parres Arias, C. P. 45100. Modulo K, 3er piso, cubículo 13. Tel. 01-33-37703300, Ext: 25346
  • Patricia Ávila García Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas. UNAM campus Morelia. Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8701 Ex Hacienda de San José de la Huerta. C. P. 58190. Morelia, Michoacán. Tel. 01 4433222786

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v3i8.1322

Keywords:

hydro agricultural model, international market, strawberry export, virtual water

Abstract

In the present work discusses the concept of virtual water as a useful tool for understanding the biophysical limits of the process of social production. So with the help of this theoretical tool, we explore the impact of international trade on water reserves in the case of exports of strawberries grown in the agricultural valley of Zamora, Mexico.

The research provides the means to identify some of the processes that generate the appropriation of the last reserves of subsoil pristine water from the agricultural valley of Zamorano to world strawberry market. This is relevant because the characteristic processes of this fertile region of the state of Michoacán represent a model that is being implemented in various agricultural regions of the country. The research was conducted between 2000 and 2006.

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2018-06-13

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Peniche Camps, Salvador, and Ávila García Patricia. 2018. “Exploring the Concept of Virtual Water Exports: Case of Mexican Strawberry”. Revista Mexicana De Ciencias Agrícolas 3 (8). México, ME:1579-90. https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v3i8.1322.

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Vol. 3 No. 8 (2012)

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