Line of action:

Drivers of biodiversity loss

Status:

Finalizado

Execution date:

2023

End date:

2025

Total budget:

180.500,00 €

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

126.350,00 €

Project web page:

https://agroecologia.net/ecoterres/

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.

• It has directly contributed to strengthening knowledge about local agri-food ecosystems and their adaptive capacity, as well as generating practical and transferable proposals to promote the resilience of these systems to adverse climate scenarios.
• A mapping of agroecological initiatives in the three study territories has been carried out, identifying 90 initiatives that were interviewed and georeferenced on a public interactive map.
• Based on this diagnosis, common patterns have been identified in terms of adaptation practices, governance models and marketing strategies, evidencing the relevance of agroecology as a structural approach for climate resilience.
• A comparative analysis between territories has been developed to identify differentiated strengths and challenges: Malaga as a resilient agroecological ecosystem, Girona with strong technical coherence and Mallorca with high internal organization.
• This analysis provided solid evidence on the factors that condition the adaptation of local agri-food systems. On this basis, the Guide to Good Practices for the climate resilience of agri-food systems has been developed, structured in four modules that address management practices, tourism strategies, multi-stakeholder cooperation and public policy recommendations.