These days the cross-border seminar “Adaptation to climate change in the management of agrosilvopastoral systems in Spain and Portugal: pastures and montados” has been held in Lisbon within the framework of LIFE SHARA.

On 29 and 30 April, the cross-border seminar “Adaptation to climate change in the management of agrosilvopastoral systems in Spain and Portugal: pastures and montados” was held in Lisbon, a conference that is part of the LIFE SHARA project, which we coordinate from the Biodiversity Foundation and which aims to strengthen the governance of adaptation to climate change and increase resilience to it in Spain and Portugal.

The attendees of the seminar have addressed issues such as the most recent studies on the impacts of climate change on pastures and associated ecosystems, including livestock, and the economic and social consequences that climate change has on these ecosystems. The policies and measures aimed at improving the adaptation to climate change of the dehesas is another of the aspects that has been analysed in these conferences.

This seminar brought together 40 people in the Portuguese capital, including experts in adaptation and agriculture, researchers related to the management of agrosilvopastoral systems and other actors, both Spanish and Portuguese.

The objectives of the meeting were to reflect on the challenges of adaptation to climate change, in particular in relation to the management of agrosilvopastoral systems between Spain and Portugal, and to present recent studies on the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and pastures, which will help to provide a joint analysis of the social and economic effects of climate change.

In addition, the seminar has served as a forum for the exchange of views on strategies to increase resilience to climate change in agrosilvopastoral systems, as well as for compiling lessons learned from legislation on the subject and aspects related to financing.

Another objective of these sessions is to propose synergies and measures aimed at improving adaptation to climate change in these ecosystems.

The LIFE SHARA project has a budget of more than 1.5 million euros, 57% co-financed through LIFE funds, and has as partners the Spanish Office for Climate Change, the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), the Autonomous Agency of National Parks -through the National Center for Environmental Education (CENEAM)- and the Portuguese Agency for the Environment.

Its main objective is to collaborate in the construction of a society better adapted to climate change, cooperating with all the actors involved, generating knowledge and increasing social awareness.

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