Line of action:

Drivers of biodiversity loss

Status:

Finalizado

Execution date:

2019

End date:

2021

Total budget:

63.818,70 €

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

44.673,20 €

This initiative complements a demonstration project of the 2018 Catalonia rural development program, which has allowed for a greater magnitude of the actions carried out. Specifically, the initiative works in Collserola, within the framework of the “Alimentamos Collserola” project, promoted by the Collserola Natural Park Consortium.

The overall objective of the project is to adapt peri-urban agricultural soils to climate change by promoting carbon sequestration and microbial diversity based on local composting.

To this end, it has these specific goals:

• To determine the effects of climate change on agriculture in the Collserola Natural Park (Barcelona).
• Increase carbon sequestration and the quality and quantity of microbiota in the park’s agricultural soils.
• Use urban organic waste to make quality compost suitable for organic agriculture.
• Promote participatory research as a way to involve farmers in project management.
• Apply innovative scientific techniques to determine the diversity of soil microorganisms and soil fertility.
• Disseminate the project and its objectives.

• Apply a proprietary mathematical model of adequacy and calculation of gross irrigation requirements.
• Design a system for the utilization of the municipal vegetable and organic fraction.
• Generate an annual production of compost.
• Accompany and advise farmers in the collection of data from various experimental plots through participatory research.
• Monitoring soil fertility using innovative formulas and evaluating how they affect productive yields and the efficient use of water on farms (adaptability to climate change).
• Disseminate project results, educate and train farmers.

• It has contributed to climate change adaptation of peri-urban agricultural soils by promoting carbon sequestration and microbial diversity based on local composting.
• It has been established how to improve the agronomic efficiency of agriculture in the Collserola area by recycling urban organic waste to obtain compost.
• It has been shown that the application of C/N20-rich compost can promote plant production, functional microbial diversity, increased organic matter and soil carbon sequestration.
• The knowledge generated has been transferred to farmers and technicians of the Collserola park and local associations of farmers and land stewardship, together with the local administration, have contributed to the dissemination of the results for the promotion of sustainable agriculture and bio-waste recycling.