Remuinan, Alberto Gonzalez ， Gomes, Ines ， Freire, Dulce
2025 AGUA Y TERRITORIO 2025 null(卷), 28(期), (233-248页)
Meeting the water requirements for crops such as maize through irrigation can conflict with the increasing demand for efficient water management. This paper aims to contribute to the search for solutions to achieve a more rational water use for this crop in the Iberian Peninsula. It analyses written sources and unpublished oral testimonies to highlight the value of peasant and scientific knowledge in managing water resources through farming techniques other than irrigation used before the Green Revolution. However, the logic of productivity led to the introduction of hybrids and greater water availability through the construction of irrigation infrastructures. As a result, some of these techniques fell into oblivion, thereby losing this administrative aspect of moisture. In the current environmental context, reconsidering them is both logical and necessary.