Live Carob. Multifunctional Dryland Agriculture in the Campo de Cartagena.

FEDER

The project aims to recover and enhance the dryland of Campo de Cartagena by promoting carob cultivation and its demand. To this end, actions will be carried out related to the planting of carob trees on private farms and on municipal land, promoting multifunctional landscapes and regenerative agriculture. In addition, a bioproduct bank, an identifying brand and the Dryland Landscape Office will be created, complementing these measures with a boost to policies to favour rainfed farming at the regional level. With all this, the aim is to achieve results related to restoration and management of rainfed land (60 ha on private farms, 30 ha with grazing, 22 ha municipal), transfer and replicability (replicator farms of 2 ha), and bioeconomy/tourism (Dryland Landscape Office).

Project

Line of action:

Terrestrial ecosystems

Status:

En ejecución

Location:

Region of Murcia

Geographic scope:

España

Execution date:

2026

End date:

2028

Duration:

18/02/2026 - 30/09/2028

Total budget:

€1,630,199.97

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

€978,119.98

Entity / grouped entities

Business Association Energy and Environment Technology Center of the Region of Murcia (CETENMA)

Association of Naturalists of the Southeast (ANSE)

Association for the Recovery of the Native Forest of Cartagena (ARBA)

Strategic importance

It considers the planting of rainfed land on municipal land, improving connectivity between urban, peri-urban, rural, agricultural and industrial areas, capitalizing on the results of the BOSQUE ROMANO (PRTR 2021) project. Bioeconomy, employment and green entrepreneurship initiatives, productive use and cost reduction on municipal land (22 ha) will be supported. Creation of a bank of dryland bioproducts in Cartagena supported by a GIS viewer. An identifying brand will be created with the collaboration of companies. Feasibility study of the recovery of by-products and viable business models. Transfer of results through replicator farms (2ha). Promotion of policies to favour rainfed farming at the regional level. Creation of the Dryland Landscape Office focused on tourism in a historic building, with an exhibition, tastings and visits to the project’s farms.

Objectives

To recover and value the dry land of Campo de Cartagena by promoting the cultivation of carob trees and their demand.

Actions

Promotion of rainfed woodland crops on private land in the Campo de Cartagena.
To improve ecological connectivity through the multifunctional rainfed landscape.
Promote the governance of a dual social bioeconomy model.
Promotion of the demand for rainfed bioproducts through innovative uses.
Multi-stakeholder training.
Replicability and transfer of results.
Communication, dissemination and awareness-raising activities.
Technical coordination and monitoring of the project.

Results

Involve farmers.
To strengthen rainfed agriculture in the Campo de Cartagena.
Green infrastructure created or improved through the multifunctional rainfed landscape.
Replicable solutions.
Creation of a digital tool to support the social bioeconomy.
Development of bioeconomy governance models.
Availability of business studies.
To promote knowledge of the carob.
To promote the long-term continuity of the actions.
Train rural women.
To increase the capacities for the recovery of hail.
Promote the return to traditional crops such as carob trees, compatible with the protection of the Mar Menor.
To bring citizens and tourists closer to the environmental, cultural, ethnographic, artistic and productive values of the rainfed landscape.
Execution of the project in time, quality and cost.

Live Carob. Multifunctional Dryland Agriculture in the Campo de Cartagena.

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