Line of action:

Terrestrial ecosystems

Status:

En ejecución

Execution date:

September 2025

End date:

August 2028

Total budget:

€1,999,750.29

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

€1,799,775.26 (90%)

The overall objective is to use generative agriculture and livestock principles based on scientific evidence to improve the sustainability of agricultural and livestock practices, restore biodiversity in agroecosystems, and foster a socioeconomic fabric that seeks resilience and environmental, cultural and socioeconomic sustainability through diversification and complementarity of uses.

Together, it seeks a deep and collective transformation of the landscape towards sustainable agroecosystems.

Doñana Regenera proposes three lines of actions that contribute to innovation in the agricultural sector and the restoration of biodiversity through scientific and technological knowledge.

The first line of actions is aimed at changing agricultural and livestock practices of high environmental cost in the main crops in the environment, including red fruits, vegetables, citrus fruits and olives. The aim is to improve the flow of services generated by agroecosystems and, at the same time, demonstrate the value of rainfed crops such as vines, annual plant crops and the recovery of native breeds.

In the second line of actions, it is expected to increase the biodiversity of vertebrate fauna and insects through the active restoration of natural vegetation, thus promoting the self-organization of ecological communities.

Finally, the third line of actions will synthesize the results of the experimental actions carried out and combine them with other similar experiences, so that they can be known, applied and their economic and social viability evaluated by a broad group of farmers, associations and companies.

• Innovation between the agricultural sector and the scientific and technological sector.
• Implementation and monitoring of experimental actions in the network of model and pilot farms.
• Training and training of personnel on farms for the management of water, soil and nature.
• Dissemination of results and promotion of new business models.
• Design, organization and dynamization of collaborative and interdisciplinary work tables.
• Identification of traditional knowledge and practices likely to incorporate a regenerative agriculture strategy for the restoration of natural and cultural values of Doñana.
• Reduction of water use in the construction of strawberry ridges.
• Efficiency in the use of water in the cultivation of woody species (olive, citrus, almond).
• Reduced erosion and increased soil fertility.
• Strengthening of soil food chains.
• Evaluation of the effect of wild pollinators on citrus and red fruit crops.
• Evaluation of the effect of the increase in wild pollinators on the reproduction of native vegetation within agricultural holdings.
• Evaluation of the type of olive grove management for soil carbon sequestration.
• Evaluation of olive grove management for net CO2 balances between soil, atmosphere and plant.
• Implantation and restoration of woody hedges and permanent vegetation.
• Annual plant season in areas of margins, boundaries, and plot centers.
• Identification of the species of greatest biological interest in the agricultural habitats present in the Doñana area.
• Cultivation of medicinal annuals in abandoned irrigated areas.
• Contribution to the technical and scientific improvement of livestock farms inside and outside the national park.
• Contribution to the recovery of native livestock breeds in danger of extinction compatible with the conservation of areas of high natural value.
• Development of a system of self-assessment and continuous learning for the improvement of livestock farms.