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Water Pollution from Agriculture: Policy Challenges in a Case Study of Guanajuato

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In Mexico, as in many other countries, agriculture is the main user of water, and its prime polluter. Nevertheless, the country lacks an agro-environmental policy aimed at reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture. In many parts of the world the agricultural sector is not environmentally regulated due to: 1) the consideration that agriculture is a prioritized and sensitive sector and thus it should be protected and subsidized; 2) theoretical problems posed by the design of instruments for the environmental control of non-point sources; 3) the bias in support of and the resource allocation in favour of large-scale farmers with political influence who have traditionally been reluctant to allow regulation.

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Espejo, R.P. (2012). Water Pollution from Agriculture: Policy Challenges in a Case Study of Guanajuato. In: Oswald Spring, Ú. (eds) Water Resources in Mexico. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05432-7_31

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