Anastasio J. VILLANUEVA

Researcher

Dpt. of Agri-Food Economics
IFAPA-Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training
Centro IFAPA Camino de Purchil, Apdo 2.027, 18.080, Granada (Spain)
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Research interests

  • Environmental valuation
  • Choices and behaviours of farmers and consumers
  • Sustainability of agricultural systems

Within environmental economics and policy, Anastasio focuses on the analysis of public goods and externalities produced by agricultural systems. Particular research interests include the analysis of farmers’ preferences towards environmental policy, the sustainability of agricultural systems (especially irrigated and olive grove systems), and the use of integrated approaches to the analysis of the joint provision of private and public goods by agriculture.

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Economics (within the Postgraduate Program of Rural Development), University of Córdoba (Spain)
M.Sc. in Agrifood and Environmental Economy, Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain)
Degree in Agricultural Engineering (specialised in Environmental Engineering), University of Córdoba (Spain)

Research stays

Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Land Economy, Environment & Society Group (LEESG), Edinburgh (UK). Period: 03/2015-12/2015. Supervisor: Dr. Klaus Glenk
University of Bologna, Dpt. of Agricultural Sciences (DipSA), Area of Agricultural Economics, Bologna (Italy). Period: 11/2013-04/2014. Supervisor: Prof. Davide Viaggi

Currently research projects

    • PID2019-107693RR-C21. “PAGOs por Servicios Ecosistémicos basados en Resultados: análisis de diseños innovadores en política de agroambiente y clima” (PAGOSER-Eco). Periodo: 2020-2023. Responsable: Anastasio J. Villanueva (IFAPA). Financiado por: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICIN). Presupuesto: 72.600€.
    • Horizon 2020 (H2020-RUR-2019-2; Topic: RUR-01-2018-2019) Contract n° 862739. “Mountain Valorization through Interconnectedness and Green Growth” (MOVING). Periodo: 2020-2024. Coordinador: María del Mar Delgado (UCO). www.moving-h2020.eu . Financiado por: Comisión Europea. Presupuesto: 6M€.
    • Horizon 2020 (H2020-EU.3.2.4.1; Topic: RUR-09-2018) Contract n° 818351. “emPOWERing regional stakeholders for realising the full potential of european BIOeconomy” (POWER4BIO). Periodo: 2019-2021. Coordinador: Ignacio Martín (CIRCE). www.power4bio.eu. Financiado por: Comisión Europea. Presupuesto: 3M€.
    • RTI2018-095407-B-I00. “Cambio climático y sostenibilidad del regadío: nuevos instrumentos de demanda para la gestión de sequías” (IRRIDROUGHT). Periodo: 2019-2022. Responsable: J.A. Gómez-Limón (UCO). Financiado por: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) y Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER). Presupuesto: 3M€.

Previous research projects

    • Horizon 2020 (H2020-ISIB-2014-2; Topic: ISIB-01-2014) Contract n° 633838. PROVIDE project. “PROVIding smart DElivery of public goods by EU agriculture and forestry” . Period: 2015-2018. Project Coordinator: Davide Viaggi (Univ. of Bologna). Spanish Coordinator: José A. Gómez-Limón (University of Córdoba). www.provide-project.eu. Financed by: European Commission.
    • RTA2013-00032-00-00. MERCAOLI “Análisis del comportamiento del consumidor en el mercado interno del aceite de oliva: potenciales repercusiones de la aplicación de una reforma del etiquetado” [Analysis of consumer’s behaviour in the Spanish olive oil market: potential impacts of the implementation of the label policy reform]. Period: 2015-2017. Project Coordinator: Macario Rodríguez-Entrena (IFAPA). Financed by: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO).
    • AGL2013-48080-C2-1-R. MERCAGUA “Diseño de nuevos mercados de agua para España: Evaluación como medidas para la mejora de la eficiencia en su uso y la adaptación al cambio climático” [Designing new water markets for Spain: Assessment as measures for the improvement of efficiency in water use and the adaptation to climate change]. Period: 2014-2018. Project Coordinator: José A. Gómez-Limón (University of Córdoba). Financed by: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
    • P10-AGR-5892. SUSTANOLEA “Sostenibilidad de las explotaciones de olivar: Construcción y análisis de indicadores sintéticos como herramienta para la gestión pública de los territorios de olivar”. [Sustainability of olive grove farm: Developing and analysing composite indicators as a tool for the public management of olive grove territories]. Period: 2011-2015. Project Coordinator: Manuel Arriaza Balmón (IFAPA). Financed by: Regional Government of Andalusia.
    • 7th F.P. for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under Contract n° 289578. CLAIM project. “Supporting the role of the Common Agricultural Policy in Landscape valorisation: Improving the knowledge base of the contribution of landscape management to the rural economy”. Period: 2012-2014. Project Coordinator: Davide Viaggi (Univ. of Bologna). Spanish Coordinator: Manuel Arriaza Balmón (IFAPA). www.claimproject.eu. Financed by: European Commission.
    • AGL2010-17560-C02-01. AGRIGOBERSOS “Indicadores sintéticos de sostenibilidad: un instrumento para la mejora de la gobernanza del sector agrario andaluz” [Sustainability composite indicators: A tool for improving the governance of the agricultural sector of Andalusia]. Period: 2011-2014. Project Coordinator: José Antonio Gómez-Limón (Univ. of Córdoba). Financed by: Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Peer-reviewed publications

2024
Granado-Díaz, R., Villanueva, A.J. and Colombo, S. (2024). Land manager preferences for outcome-based payments for environmental services in oak savannahs, Ecological Economics 220:108158 doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2024.108158

Villanueva, A.J., Granado‐Díaz, R. and Colombo, S. (2024). Comparing practice‐ and results‐based agri‐environmental schemes controlled by remote sensing: An application to olive groves in Spain, Journal of Agricultural Economics doi: 10.1111/1477-9552.12573

2023

Targetti, S., Marconi, V., Raggi, M., Piorr, A., Villanueva, A.J., Häfner, K., Kurttila, M., Letki, N., Costica, M., Nikolov, D. and Viaggi, D. (2023). Provision of public goods and bads by agriculture and forestry. An analysis of stakeholders’ perception of factors, issues and mechanisms, Bio-based and Applied Economics 11(4):351-371 doi: 10.36253/bae-12843

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

Villanueva, A.J., Vernaza-Quiñónez, L. and Granado-Díaz, R. (2023). Disentangling the heterogeneity of mangrove managers’ perception of ecosystem services, Ecological Economics 213:107969 doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2023.107969

2022
Casillas González, A.C., Pérez Camacho, M.N., García López, M., Cátedra Cerón, M.M., Capote, C., Martín Jiménez, I. and Villanueva, A.J. (En prensa). Estrategias de bioeconomía circular. Un análisis comparativo a nivel europeo. ITEA‑Información Técnica Económica Agraria doi: 10.12706/itea.2022.016

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

Parron, L.M., Villanueva, A.J. and Glenk, K. (2022). Estimating the value of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes amid intensification pressures: The Brazilian case, Ecosystem Services 57:101476 doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101476

2021

Granado-Díaz, R., Villanueva, A.J., Rodríguez-Entrena, M., Salazar-Ordóñez, M., Estévez, M., Sanz, A., and Manrique, T. (2021). ¿Existe un patrón de preferencias del consumidor diferente según el tipo de jamón ibérico?, ITEA-Información Técnica Económica Agraria 117(5):557-579 doi: 10.12706/itea.2021.002

Guerrero-Casado, J., Carpio, A.J., Tortosa, F.S. and Villanueva, A.J. (2021). Environmental challenges of intensive woody crops: The case of super high-density olive groves, Science of The Total Environment 798:149212 doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149212

Salazar-Ordóñez, M.; Rodríguez-Entrena, M.; Villanueva, A.J. (2021). Exploring the commodification of biodiversity using olive oil producers’ willingness to accept, Land Use Policy 107:104348 doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104348

Viaggi, D., Raggi, M., Villanueva, A.J. and Kantelhardt, J. (2021). Provision of public goods by agriculture and forestry: Economics, policy and the way ahead, Land Use Policy 107:105273 doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105273

Villanueva, A.J. and Glenk, K. (2021). Irrigators’ preferences for policy instruments to improve water supply reliability, Journal of Environmental Management 280:111844 doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111844

Villanueva, A.J., Salazar-Ordóñez, M., Granado-Díaz, R. and Rodríguez-Entrena, M. (2021). Consumers’ preferences for traditional meat products: production system and objective quality cues in Iberian ham, Italian Journal of animal Science 20(1):1987-2001 doi: 10.1080/1828051X.2021.1982419

2020
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

2019
Gómez-Limón, J.A.; Gutiérrez-Martín, C.; 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., 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

2018

Granado-Díaz, R.; Villanueva, A.J.,; Gómez-Limón, J.A.; 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.2018.011

Rodríguez-Entrena, M.; Villanueva, A.J.; Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2018). 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. DOI: 10.1111/cjag.12169

Schaller, L.; Targetti, S.; Villanueva, A.J.; Zasada, I.; Kantelhardt, J.; Arriaza, M.; Bal, T.; Bossi-Fedrigotti, V.; Giray, H.; Häfner, K.; Majewski, E.; Malak-Rawlikowska, A.; Nikolov, D.; Paoli, J.C.; Piorr, A.; Rodríguez-Entrena, M.; Ungaro, F.; Verburg, P.; van Zanten, B.; Viaggi, D. (2018). Agricultural landscapes, ecosystem services and regional competitiveness – assessing drivers and mechanisms in nine European case study areas. Land Use Policy. 76: 735-745. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.03.001

Targetti, S., Villanueva, A.J., Parra-López, C. and Viaggi, D. (2018). The use of the analytic network process for the analysis of public goods supply from agricultural systems: advances and challenges ahead. In Berbel, J., Bournaris, T., Manos, B., Matsatsinis, N. and Viaggi, D. (eds.), Multicriteria analysis in agriculture. Current trends and recent applications. 99-132. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-76929-5_4

Villanueva, A.J., Granados-Díaz, R. y Gómez-Limón, J.A. (2018). La producción de bienes públicos por parte de los sistemas agrarios. Córdoba, UCOpress, Editorial Universidad de Córdoba.

2017

Villanueva, A.J., Gómez-Limón, J.A., Arriaza, M. and Rodríguez-Entrena, M. (2017). How best to implement agri-environment schemes? Spanish olive growers’ preferences revealed. in Policy, S.F.E. (ed.), Agri-environmental schemes: How to enhance the agriculture-environment relationship. Thematic Issue 57. doi:10.2779/633983

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.

Villanueva, A.J., Glenk, K. and Rodríguez-Entrena, M. (2017). Protest responses and willingness to accept: Ecosystem services providers’ preferences towards incentive-based schemes, Journal of Agricultural Economics, 68(3): 801-821.

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 sub-systems. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 60(4): 684-707.

Zasada, I., Piorr, A., Novo, P., Villanueva, A.J. and Valánszki, I. (2017). What do we know about decision support systems for landscape and environmental management? A review and expert survey within EU research projects. Environmental Modelling & Software, 98: 63-74.

2015
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, 16 pages.

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.

Villanueva, A.J., Targetti, S., Schaller, L.L., Arriaza, M., Kantelhardt, J., Rodriguez-Entrena, M., Bossi-Fedrigotti, V. and Viaggi, D. (2015). Assessing the role of economic actors in the production of private and public goods in three EU agricultural landscapes. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 58(12): 2113-2136.

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.

Villanueva, A.J., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Arriaza, M. (2014). Influencia de los factores de gestión en la producción de bienes públicos en el olivar de regadío. Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros, 237: 81-105.

Gómez-Limón, J.A.; Arriaza, M. and 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.