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Farmers and biodiversity, allies for nature

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This project proposes the management and recovery of biodiversity as a source of innovation in agricultural farms, especially in those that are located in fragile environments such as the wetlands of the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula.

This project proposes the management and recovery of biodiversity as a source of innovation in agricultural farms, especially in those that are located in fragile environments such as the wetlands of the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula.

Aimed mainly at small and medium-sized farmers, this initiative has as its fundamental objective the conversion of farms, through advice and/or training, towards production methods compatible with the conservation of the environment, which in turn include specific actions to improve biodiversity.

In this sense, it proposes the search, dissemination and development of alliances between intensive agriculture and biodiversity conservation, which report mutual benefit, providing solutions to environmental problems.

When it is not possible to convert to an ecological regime or even in addition to the change of production system, alternatives can be put in place such as the implementation, conservation and improvement of hedges, management to favour populations of invertebrates that act as auxiliary fauna in crops, the recovery of traditional agricultural varieties, good practices for the conservation of fauna on farms or collaboration in containment of Invasive Alien Species.

Line of action:

Terrestrial ecosystems

Status:

Finalizado

Execution date:

2011

End date:

2012
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Farmers and biodiversity, allies for nature