The Use of Water in Agriculture in Mexico and Its Sustainable Management: A Bibliometric Review

Claudia A Ochoa-Noriega,Alejandro Álvarez-Bejar,Juan F Velasco-Muñoz,José A Aznar-Sánchez

doi:10.3390/agronomy10121957

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Abstract

The development of agricultural activity in Mexico is generating environmental externalities that could compromise its future. One of the principal challenges facing the Mexican agricultural sector is to find a way to continue growing without jeopardising the availability and quality of its water resources. The objective of this article is to analyse the dynamics of the research on the use of water in agriculture in Mexico and its sustainable management. To do this, a review and a bibliometric analysis have been carried out on a sample of 1490 articles. The results show that the research has focused on the pollution of water bodies, climate change, the quality of water, the application of technology in order to make water use more efficient, biodiversity, erosion, agronomic practices that reduce water consumption, underground water sources, and conservation agriculture. Although research focusing on sustainability is still in its infancy, it has become a priority field. A gap in the research has been detected in terms of the economic and social dimensions of sustainability. There is also a lack of holistic studies that include all three of the pillars of sustainability (environmental, economic, and social).

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Today’s society must face a series of challenges in order to guarantee the survival of a constantly growing population, ensuring the same opportunities for future generations based on the principal of sustainability [1,2]
If wepink analyse the research on SAWMM, we find four differentiated clusters
If we analyse the research on SAWMM, we find four differentiated clusters (Figure 3) with three sustainability these focused on theof fields of crops

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Today’s society must face a series of challenges in order to guarantee the survival of a constantly growing population, ensuring the same opportunities for future generations based on the principal of sustainability [1,2]. These include the supply of water and food, the eradication of hunger and poverty, and the conservation of a healthy natural environment [3,4]. Agriculture is an economic activity that connects the different objectives proposed It is the principal supplier of food on a global level. Agriculture is a source of environmental pollution and is too large of a degree responsible for the over-exploitation and degradation of water sources [10,11]

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