Temática: Agriculture

Sclerophyllous

Relating to plants or plant formations adapted to prolonged periods of drought and high temperatures. They exhibit adaptive mechanisms such as small, hard leaves, a globular crown, a thick, low trunk, and deep roots. The Mediterranean evergreen forest of holm oaks or cork oaks is an example.

Endemism

Relating to plant or animal species that are unique and exclusive to a specific geographical area. There are about 1,700 of them on the Iberian Peninsula, mostly mountain flora, and nearly 500 in the Canary Islands alone (for example, dragon tree or tabaiba).

Crop

Generically, it is the breeding and exploitation of living beings (in the case of agriculture, plants) for scientific, economic or industrial purposes.

Industrial crops

Those crops that require industrial processing prior to consumption, such as crops destined for textile manufacturing, sugar beets, oilseeds, tobacco, etc.

Cliserie

Schematic representation showing the distribution of agriculture in tiered levels based on altitude and orientation in mountainous areas, as well as climatic variation.

Irrigation community

They are public law corporations, attached to river basin organizations and composed of owners of agricultural land in an irrigated area, which are responsible for organizing the collective use of public, surface and groundwater that are shared by them.

Land consolidation

A procedure, generally organized by public administrations in smallholder areas, that encourages the grouping of plots within a single agricultural holding to improve productivity and yields. Their larger size allows for greater mechanization possibilities and easier access to farmland.

Bocage (closed fields)

A type of agricultural land division in which the boundaries are enclosed by walls, hedges, fences, slopes, etc., which gives it the name of closed field landscapes.

Deciduous

Relating to plants or plant formations that lose their leaves during the cold season. In Spain, these formations are characteristic of the oceanic climate and, consequently, of the Eurosiberian biogeographic region. They feature trees with straight, smooth trunks and broad leaves, such as oak or beech, and a sparse understory.

Sharecropping

A form of agricultural exploitation consisting of the transfer of land exploitation to a third party by the owner, in exchange for payment in the form of a portion of the profits obtained.