Line of action:

Drivers of biodiversity loss

Status:

En ejecución

Execution date:

2023

Total budget:

180.500,00 €

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

126.350,00 €

According to SEAE, Malaga and Girona are territories with highly artificialized and overpopulated coasts, economies dependent on the tourist monoculture and exposed to extreme weather phenomena, but which include in their inland geographical areas agricultural territories with an industrial and mountain model at risk of depopulation or touristification. In addition, Mallorca shares the vulnerability due to the economic model and exposure to adverse climatic phenomena and includes, additionally, the fragility of the agri-food system due to agro-climatic conditions, insularity and degree of external dependence.

For this reason, this project focuses on these provinces to identify resilient and sustainable agri-food production and consumption practices and models that also contribute to the resilience of societies in territories that are highly vulnerable to climate change. These practices are expected to contribute to the development of an alternative tourism model that minimizes negative impacts and strengthens its economic base.

The general objective of the project is to identify, analyze, systematize and disseminate models of agri-food production and consumption that are territorialized, healthy, sustainable, replicable, resilient and with the capacity to generate new forms of tourist recreation that strengthen the model by minimizing negative impacts.

Specific goals include:

• To make the project known to the population of the territories within the scope of the work and involve them in the process, as well as to disseminate the results obtained at the state level in order to favor its replicability.
• Mapping agroecological and proximity tourism initiatives linked to the agri-food system in three territories especially vulnerable to climate change (Mallorca, Malaga and Girona).
• Analyze resilient livelihoods linked to agrifood systems identified in the vulnerable territories studied, identify possible impacts and systematize the processes followed.
• Promote and contribute to agroecological transition and improved governance through multi-agent cooperation, transfer of knowledge and know-how and the creation of synergies and networks at the local level.
• Facilitate the relationship with other territories to share lessons learned and offer the methodology and proposed protocols for their replicability.

• Design and implementation of the project’s communication strategy and dissemination of results to involve the local population and disseminate good practices towards resilience for replicability at the local, state and international levels.
• Mapping of territorialized, sustainable, healthy, fair, resilient and replicable agri-food production and consumption initiatives with tourism as a source of diversification, in Girona, Malaga and Mallorca.
• Identification of common elements in the practices identified in the three vulnerable territories studied (Girona, Malaga and Mallorca) and elaboration of a systematization proposal according to local socioeconomic characteristics.
• Preparation of proposals for best practice guidelines for their replicability.
• Participatory workshops in Girona, Malaga and Mallorca, with civil society, organic and non-organic producers, agri-food businesses, HORECA sector (hotels, restaurants and cafeterias), researchers, local, island and regional administrations.
• Virtual workshops with teachers involved in service-learning programs in order to identify activities and center strategies to disseminate and contribute to agri-food, social, economic and leisure resilience strategies.
• Virtual seminar for dissemination of results and replicability in other territories.