Water, Environmental and Agricultural Resources Economics (WEARE)

Professor

Biography

Born in Cordoba (Spain) in 1968, I got my degrees of B. Agricultural Engineer (1993) and Agricultural Economics, Ph.D. (1996), both in the University of Cordoba (Spain). From 1997 to the present I have worked at the Universities of Valladolid and Cordoba (Spain) as Associate Professor and Professor in the Departments of Agricultural Economics. In these professional posts I have reached a wide experience on teaching (20 academic courses in Agricultural Business Administration and Agricultural Policy) and research in agricultural and environmental policy and economics (more than 60 peer reviewed papers in international journals and a full array of other scientific documents).

Dealing with my research and consultancy work expertise, I could point out that I have been involved in +40 public-sector financed research projects and contracts, being the coordinator of these projects/contracts 15 times. Most of them aimed for public decision-making support, especially dealing with agricultural and environmental policy. The most recent and relevant ones were the projects FARMPERFORM (The green transition of agriculture: a microeconomic analysis to support policy decision-making, 2023-2027), IRRIDROUGHT (Climate change and sustainability of irrigated agriculture: new demand-side instruments for drought management, 2018-2022), PROVIDE (Providing smart delivery of public goods by EU agriculture and forestry, 2015-2018), MERCAGUA (Designing new water markets for Spain: Assessment as measures for the improvement of efficiency in water use and the adaptation to climate change, 2014-2017), and AGRIBOBERSOS (Composite indicators for sustainability assessment: an instrument to improve agricultural governance, 2009-2013), all of them financed by the EU Commission and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology.

Most relevant Peer-reviewed publications

2024

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Martín-García, J. and Granado-Díaz, R. (2024). Building a typology of farms based on their performance: a tool to support agricultural policy-making, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management doi: 10.1080/09640568.2024.2391060

Martín-García, J., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Arriaza, M. (2024). Conversion to organic farming: Does it change the economic and environmental performance of fruit farms?, Ecological Economics 220:108178 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108178

Polonio, D., Gómez-Limón, J.A., La Cal, J.A. and Villanueva, A.J. (2024). The circular bioeconomy of the olive oil industry: Deterministic and probabilistic profitability of olive mill by-product gasification, Biomass and Bioenergy 189:107350 doi: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2024.107350

Polonio, D., Villanueva, A.J. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2024). Rentabilidad del compostaje del alperujo como una alternativa bioeconómica, ITEA Información Técnica Económica Agraria 120(2):179-199 doi: 10.12706/itea.2024.004

2023
Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Granado Díaz, R. (2023). Assessing the demand for hydrological drought insurance in irrigated agriculture, Agricultural Water Management 276:108054. doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2022.108054

Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Sánchez-Cañizares, S.M. (2023). Forecasting the dynamics of farm income: The case of the olive sector in Spain, New Medit, A Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment, 3:1-22 DOI: 10.30682/nm2303a

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Sánchez-Cañizares, S.M., Hidalgo-Fernández, A. and Castillo-Canalejo, A.M. (2023). Profit and viability persistence: Evidence from the Spanish agricultural sector, Agribusiness 39(4):1300-1332 doi: 10.1002/agr.21822

Luque-Vílchez, M., Gómez-Limón, J.A., Guerrero-Baena, M.D. and Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, P. (2023). Deconstructing corporate environmental, social, and governance performance: Heterogeneous stakeholder preferences in the food industry, Sustainable Development 31(3):1845-1860 doi: 10.1002/sd.2488

Martín-García, J., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Arriaza, M. (2023). Conventional versus organic olive farming: which has a better economic performance?, Agricultural and Food Economics 11(1):51 doi: 10.1186/s40100-023-00292-5

Villanueva, A.J. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2023). Heterogeneity in the WTA-WTP disparity for irrigation water reliability, Water Resources and Economics 42:100219 doi: 10.1016/j.wre.2023.100219

2022

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Guerrero-Baena, M.D. and Fernández-Gallardo, J.A. (2022). Hedging the risk of hydrological drought in irrigated agriculture: the role of precautionary savings, International Journal of Water Resources Development  38(6):1089-1113 doi: 10.1080/07900627.2021.1949699

Granado-Díaz, R., Villanueva, A.J. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2022). Willingness to accept for rewilding farmland in environmentally sensitive areas, Land Use Policy 116:106052 doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106052

Granado-Díaz, R., Villanueva, A.J. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2022). Spatial discounting in food products from high natural value agroecosystems, Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research 20(4):e0106 doi: 10.5424/sjar/2022204-18480

Gutiérrez-Martín, C., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Montilla-López, N.M. (2022). Priority water rights for irrigation at the river basin level. Do they improve economic efficiency during drought periods?, Water Resources Management doi: 10.1007/s11269-022-03228-8

Sánchez-Cañizares, S.M., Guerrero-Baena, M.D. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2022). Factors influencing the simultaneous adoption of risk management instruments in Mediterranean irrigated agriculture, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 65(6): 1088-1109 doi: 10.1080/09640568.2021.1922364

2021

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Gutiérrez-Martín, C. and Montilla-López, N.M. (2021). Priority water rights. Are they useful for improving water-use efficiency at the irrigation district level?, Agricultural Water Management 257:107145 doi: 10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107145

Guerrero‑Baena MD, Gómez-Limón, J.A., Sánchez‑Cañizares, S. (2021). Determinantes de la adopción de instrumentos de gestión del riesgo en la agricultura de regadío, ITEA‑Información Técnica Económica Agraria 117(4):449-473 doi: 10.12706/itea.2021.001

2020

Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2020). Hydrological drought insurance for irrigated agriculture in southern Spain, Agricultural Water Management 240:106271 doi: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106271

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Arriaza M. and Guerrero-Baena, M.D. (2020). Building a composite indicator to measure environmental sustainability using alternative weighting methods, Sustainability 12(11):4398 doi: 10.3390/su12114398

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Guerrero-Baena, M.D. and Sánchez-Cañizares, S.M. (2020). The predictive power of farmers’ risk attitude measures elicited by experimental methods, Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research 18(3):e0110 doi: 10.5424/sjar/2020183-15409

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Gutiérrez-Martín, C. and Montilla-López, N.M. (2020). Agricultural water allocation under cyclical scarcity: the role of priority water rights, Water 12(6):1835
doi: 10.3390/w12061835

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Gutiérrez-Martín, C. and Montilla-López, N.M. (2020). Recovering water for the environment during droughts through public water banks within a monopsony-monopoly setting, Water Resources and Economics 32:100163 doi: 10.1016/j.wre.2020.100163

Granado-Díaz, R., Gómez-Limón, J.A., Rodríguez-Entrena, M., and Villanueva, A.J. (2020). Spatial analysis of demand for sparsely located ecosystem services using alternative index approaches. European Review of Agricultural Economics 47(2):752-784 doi: 10.1093/erae/jbz036

Granado-Díaz, R., Villanueva, A.J. and Gómez-Limón, J.A.(2020). ¿Resultaría económicamente eficiente un programa de reconversión ecológica para el olivar de montaña andaluz?, Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales (Agricultural and Resource Economics) 20:103-129 doi: 10.7201/earn.2020.01.05

Gutiérrez-Martín, C., Gómez-Limón, J.A., and Montilla-López N.M. (2020). Self-financed water bank for resource reallocation to the environment and within the agricultural sector, Ecological Economics. 169:106493 doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.106493

2019

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Gutiérrez-Martín, C. and Villanueva, A.J. (2019). Optimal design of agri-environmental schemes under asymmetric information for improving farmland biodiversity. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 70(1):153-177 doi: 10.1111/1477-9552.12279

Guerrero-Baena, M.D., Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2019). Insuring water supply in irrigated agriculture: A proposal for hydrological drought index-based insurance in Spain. Water. 11(4):686 doi: 10.3390/w11040686

Guerrero-Baena, M.D., Villanueva, A.J., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Glenk, K. (2019). Willingness to pay for improved irrigation water supply reliability: An approach based on probability density functions. Agricultural Water Management. 217:11-22 doi: 10.1016/j.agwat.2019.02.027

Rodríguez-Entrena, M., Villanueva, A.J. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2019). Unraveling determinants of inferred and stated attribute non-attendance: effects on farmers’ willingness to accept to join agri-environmental schemes. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 67(1):31–52 doi: 10.1111/cjag.12169

2018

Montilla-López, N.M., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Gutiérrez-Martín, C. (2018). Sharing a river: Potential performance of a water bank for reallocating irrigation water, Agricultural Water Management. 200:47-59 doi: 10.1016/j.agwat.2017.12.025

Villanueva, A.J., Granado-Díaz, R. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2018). La producción de bienes públicos por parte de los sistemas agrarios. Córdoba, UCOpress, Editorial Universidad de Córdoba. ISBN: 978-84-9927-370-9

Granado-Díaz, R., Villanueva, A.J., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Rodríguez-Entrena, M. (2018). Análisis de la heterogeneidad de la demanda de bienes públicos procedentes del olivar de montaña en Andalucía. ITEA-Información Técnica Económica Agraria. 114(2):158-182 doi: 10.12706/itea.2018.011X

2017

Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Parras, M. (2017). Economía y comercialización de los aceites de oliva. Factores y perspectivas para el liderazgo español del mercado global. Almería. Cajamar Caja Rural. ISBN: 978-84-95531-85-8

Montilla-López, N.M., Gutiérrez-Martín, C. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2017). Impacto de la tarifación del agua de riego en el Bajo Guadalquivir. ITEA. Información Técnica Económica Agraria. 113(1):90-111 doi: 10.12706/itea.2017.006

Villanueva, A.J., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Rodríguez-Entrena, M. (2017). Valoración de la oferta de bienes públicos por parte de los sistemas agrarios: el caso del olivar de montaña en Andalucía. Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales. 17(1):25-57 doi: 10.7201/earn.2017.01.02

Villanueva, A.J., Rodríguez-Entrena, M., Arriaza, M. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2017). Heterogeneity of farmers’ preferences towards agri-environmental schemes across different agricultural subsystems. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 60(4):684-707 doi: 10.1080/09640568.2016.1168289

2016

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Gutiérrez-Martín, C. and Riesgo, L. (2016). Modeling at farm level: Positive Multi-Attribute Utility Programming. Omega. 65(2016):17-27 doi: 10.1016/j.omega.2015.12.004

Montilla-López, N.M., Gutiérrez-Martín, C. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2016). Water banks: What have we learnt from the international experience?. Water. 8(10):466 doi: 10.3390/w8100466

Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Calatrava Leyva, J. (2016). Los mercados de agua en España. Presente y perspectivas. Almería, Cajamar Caja Rural. ISBN: 978-84-95531-73-5

2015

Villanueva, A.J., Gómez-Limón, J.A., Arriaza, M. and Rodríguez-Entrena, M. (2015). The design of agri-environmental schemes: Farmers’ preferences in southern Spain. Land Use Policy. 46:142-154 doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.02.009

Villanueva, A.J., Gómez-Limón, J.A., Arriaza, M. and Rodríguez-Entrena, M. (2015). Assessment of greening and collective participation in the context of agri-environmental schemes: The case of Andalusian irrigated olive groves. Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research. 13(4):e0108 doi: 10.5424/sjar/2015134-7376

Palomo-Hierro, S., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Riesgo, L. (2015). Water markets in Spain: A tool for drought mitigation. In Andreu-Álvarez, J., Solera, A., Paredes-Arquiola, J., Haro-Monteagudo, D. y Van Lanen, H. A. J., eds. Research and science-policy interfacing. Boca Raton, EEUU, CRC Press, 485-492.

Palomo-Hierro, S., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Riesgo, L. (2015). Water markets in Spain: Performance and challenges. Water. 7(2):652-678 doi: 10.3390/w7020652

Gerrero-Baena, M.D., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Fruet, J.V. (2015). A multicriteria method for environmental management system selection: An intellectual capital approach. Journal of Cleaner Production. 105:428-437 doi: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.07.079

2014 and previous

Villanueva, A.J., Gómez-Limón, J.A., Arriaza, M. and Nekhay, O. (2014). Analysing the provision of agricultural public goods: The case of irrigated olive groves in Southern Spain. Land Use Policy. 38:300-313 doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.11.018

Rodríguez-Entrena, M., Arriaza, M. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2014). Determining economic and social factors in the adoption of cover crops under mower control in olive groves. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems. 38(1):69-91 doi: 10.1080/21683565.2013.819478

Guerrero-Baena, M.D. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2014). Decomposing value creation when assessing investments: a multicriteria approach based on Analytic Hierarchy Process. International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process. 6(2) doi: 10.13033/ijahp.v6i2.236

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Vera-Toscano, E. and Garrido-Fernández, F.E. (2014). Farmers’ contribution to agricultural social capital: Evidence from southern Spain. Rural Sociology. 79(3):380-410 doi: 10.1111/ruso.12034

Beltrán-Esteve, M., Gómez-Limón, J.A., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J. and Reig-Martínez, E. (2014). A metafrontier directional distance function approach to assessing eco-efficiency. Journal of Productivity Analysis. 41(1):69-83 doi: 10.1007/s11123-012-0334-7

Vera-Toscano, E., Garrido-Fernández, F.E., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Cañadas-Reche, J.L. (2013). Are theories about social capital empirically supported? Evidence from the farming sector. Social Indicators Research. 114(3):1331-1359 doi: 10.1007/s11205-012-0205-7

Guerrero-Baena, M.D., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Fruet-Cardozo, J.V. (2013). La valoración de inversiones productivas: Una aproximación metodológica basada en la creación de valor financiero e intelectual. Intangible Capital. 9(4):1145-1169 doi: 10.3926/ic.426

Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Reig-Martínez, E. (2013). La sostenibilidad de la agricultura española. Almería, Cajamar Caja Rural. ISBN: 978-84-95531-56-8

Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Martin-Ortega, J. (2013). The economic analysis in the implementation of the Water-Framework Directive in Spain. International Journal of River Basin Management. 11(3):301-310 doi: 10.1080/15715124.2013.823977

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Arriaza, M. y Villanueva, A.J. (2013). Typifying irrigated areas to support policy design and implementation: The case of the Guadalquivir river basin. Irrigation and Drainage. 62(3):322-329 doi: 10.1002/ird.1747

Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Arriaza, M. (2013). What does society demand from rural areas? Evidence from southern Spain. New Medit 12(1):2-12

Rodríguez-Entrena, M., Barreiro-Hurlé, J., Gómez-Limón, J.A., et al. (2012). Evaluating the demand for carbon sequestration in olive grove soils as a strategy toward mitigating climate change. Journal of Environmental Management. 112:368-376 doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.08.004

Picazo-Tadeo, A.J., Beltrán-Esteve, M. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2012). Assessing eco-efficiency with directional distance functions. European Journal of Operational Research. 220(3):798-809 doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2012.02.025

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Vera-Toscano, E. and Rico-González, M. (2012). Measuring individual preferences for rural multifunctionality: The importance of demographic and residential heterogeneity. Journal of Agricultural Economics. 63(1):1-24 doi: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2011.00325.x

Gómez-Limón, J.A. and L. Riesgo (2012). Agriculture and economics in the Water Framework Directive: Progress and limitations. Water Policy. 14(1):31-44 doi: 10.2166/wp.2011.091

Gómez-Limón, J.A., Picazo-Tadeo, A.J. and Reig-Martínez, E. (2012). Eco-efficiency assessment of olive farms in Andalusia. Land Use Policy. 29(2):395-406 doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.08.004

Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Picazo-Tadeo, A.J. (2012). Irrigated agriculture in Spain: Diagnosis and prescriptions for improved governance. International Journal of Water Resources Development. 28(1):57-72 doi:10.1080/07900627.2012.640876

Gómez-Limón, J.A. and M. Arriaza (2011). Evaluación de la sostenibilidad de las explotaciones de olivar en Andalucía. Málaga, Analistas Económicos de Andalucía.. ISBN: 978-84-92443-16-1

Gallego-Ayala, J. and Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2011). Future scenarios and their implications for irrigated agriculture in the Spanish region of Castilla y Leon. New Medit. Mediterranean Journal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment. 10(1):4-16

Gómez-Limón, J.A. and G. Sanchez-Fernandez (2010). Empirical evaluation of agricultural sustainability using composite indicators. Ecological Economics. 69(5):1062-1075 doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.11.027

Gómez-Limón, J.A. and L. Riesgo (2010). A Composite Indicator to Measure Agricultural Sustainability: Alternative Approaches. In B. Manos, K. Paparrizos, N. Matsatsinis and J. Papathanasiou eds. Decision Support Systems in Agriculture, Food and the Environment: Trends, Applications and Advances: Trends, Applications and Advances. Hershey (USA), Information Science Reference: 219-245 doi: 10.4018/978-1-61520-881-4.ch011

García-Álvarez-Coque, J.M. and Gómez-Limón, J.A., Eds. (2010). «Chequeo médico» de la PAC y perspectivas de la Política Agraria Común tras 2013. Madrid, Eumedia-Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino. ISBN: 978-84-8476-392-5