Line of action:

Terrestrial ecosystems

Status:

En ejecución

Location:

Cuenca (Castilla- La Mancha), León, Segovia (Castilla y León), Lugo, Ourense (Galicia)

Geographic scope:

España

Execution date:

2024

Duration:

01/01/2024 - 31/12/2025

Typology:

Sustainable forest management

Total budget:

1,632,747.36 euros

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

1,551,109.99 euros

Agroforestry systems are key ecosystems for the maintenance of people in rural areas, food security, environmental sustainability and resilience to climate change. Its sustainable management is essential for the bioeconomy of the territory and the conservation of its biodiversity. In Spain, the management and conservation of these ecosystems is compromised. Among its limiting factors are its low profitability, the masculinization of the sector, the scarce culture of associationism, the lack of visibility of the rural reality and the absence of valorization of its ecosystemic services (water regulation, biodiversity conservation, carbon sequestration, soil protection, landscape maintenance or cultural heritage…). The NATUR-SMART project was created to address these issues through the promotion of the rural bioeconomy.

This project promotes the rural bioeconomy from a gender perspective through the creation and application of an integral, sustainable and specific management model for agroforestry systems, which focuses on partnerships, the linking of agroforestry owners with their territory and the activation of green employment opportunities, giving priority to women. The results will translate into increased biodiversity and the resilience of agroforestry systems to forest fires, pests or other natural disasters, and ultimately, in the maintenance of the population.

To conserve and mobilize agroforestry ecosystem services through the creation of an integrated and sustainable management model that increases biodiversity, resistance and resilience of agroforestry stands, activates the rural bioeconomy from a gender perspective and creates an associative fabric among key actors in the territory by linking supply and demand through a digital network to strengthen the market for goods and services offered by natural ecosystems.

• Technical study and analysis of agroforestry management models, proposal of new multifunctional models.
• Analysis and socio-cultural promotion with a gender perspective of the associative fabric and the agroforestry sector.
• Logic chains and value parameters on the provision of ecosystem services by agroforestry ecosystems to design integrated agroforestry management models.
• Implementation of the multifunctional management models created.
• Multifunctionality in pilot areas based on integrated agroforestry management models, ecosystem services. Trade-offs between them.
• Promotion of green jobs from a gender perspective.
• Creation of an intelligent network for the transmission of generated knowledge.
• Design and development of the AL(i)DEA Market Place.
• Gender-sensitive project coordination, monitoring and evaluation.
• Dissemination of the project according to gender.
• Training.