Line of action:

Drivers of biodiversity loss

Status:

En ejecución

Execution date:

2023

Total budget:

€264,496.00

Amount of aid from the Biodiversity Foundation:

€185,147.20

While scientific knowledge linked to agroecological and fisheries systems serves as the basis for designing policies for adaptation to climate change, traditional ecological knowledge (TEC) still remains invisible in these processes.
However, it contains knowledge accumulated over centuries that is key to ensuring local adaptation.
It is necessary to find convergences between both types of knowledge to strengthen alliances between academia, civil society, the private and public sectors, to make visible interconnections between different sectors of the food system and to be able to develop more holistic, articulated and effective policies and actions at the territorial level.
Simultaneously addressing the TEC as a resource and as an asset to be protected, the project responds to three challenges: adapting to the impacts of climate change in a country that is particularly vulnerable to its risks, promoting a sustainable low-emission food model and preserving a vast body of knowledge, practices and landscapes that are part of Spain’s biocultural heritage.

The general objective of the project is to value the traditional ecological knowledge of agroecological and fisheries systems useful for adaptation to climate change and to promote its implementation in research and public policies.

It has the following specific goals:

• Review existing information on traditional ecological knowledge linked to agroecological and fisheries systems.
• Carry out a harmonisation of knowledge (TEC and scientific knowledge) around adaptation to climate change.
• To explore the applicability of the TEC, to promote its incorporation into research and public policies on adaptation to climate change and to transfer the knowledge of the project.

• Review of scientific literature and educational and informative material (scientific articles, reports, workshop proceedings, documentation of national projects, etc.) on traditional ecological knowledge linked to agroecological and fisheries systems.
• Selection of informants.
  Definition of the coordination team and the scientific committee.
  Then, relevant people will be identified following two strategies: sample selection by theoretical criteria based on significant variables (e.g. type of activity, gender, age, etc.) and based on empirical criteria.
• Development of semi-structured interviews based on two questionnaires with the aim of collecting information on perceptions regarding climate change, solutions (techniques and knowledge) with adaptive potential and perceived barriers to their development or implementation.
• Systematization of information.
  The information collected will be synthesized into key ideas and in turn grouped around 10 major statements of adaptation to climate change.
  A report will also be written detailing the methodology and key research points of the activities, and from this report two dissemination publications will be produced for each of the thematic sectors (agroecological and fisheries).
• Organization of four workshops for the exchange of knowledge between informants and the scientific community (represented by the Scientific Committee of the project and an external collaborator) to validate the statements and associated key ideas and identify possible lines of research related to the theme of the project.
• Organization of four face-to-face territorial exploration workshops (one per territory). In addition, an attempt will be made to ensure commitment around working groups that can sow the seed for the subsequent establishment of territorial Living Labs.
• Development of an interim report and didactic sheets.
  After the workshops, the technical team will review and classify the information collected in the proceedings of the workshops, enriching the information in the initial report and the matrix of statements with more detailed contributions on the realities of the territories, TEC practices, shared experiences, interrelations between fisheries and agroecology and possible lines of research.
• Development of a toolkit for the application of traditional ecological knowledge (TEC) in research and policy action.
  It will contain the practices of the TEC identified in both sectors that contribute most to adaptation to climate change, policy recommendations aimed at meeting the needs of territorial actors, recommendations to involve these actors in lines of research on climate change and recommendations from the business sector to promote the adaptation and resilience of the agroecological and fisheries sector.
• Presentation of results in the closing webinar of the project.
  The two products that summarize the key points of the project (the informative comic and the CET Applicability Toolkit) will be presented in a webinar.
• Strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation of objectives.
• Communication and dissemination of project results.