Promoting the economic development of rural areas by generating a responsible market for innovative forest products
- Type Grupo operativo
- Status Filled
- Execution 2020 -2023
- Assigned Budget 562.281,83 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Aragón; Castilla - La Mancha
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://copade.es/nuestros-proyectos-y-beneficiarios/proyecto-feader-go-prorura…
Description
PRORURAL promotes the design and verification of a new profitable business model for the sustainable use of public forests with innovative forest products, in such a way that wealth and employment are generated and the forest is preserved.
Objectives
- To design in detail a forestry business model that is economically viable, environmentally sustainable, socially responsible, tested by potential clients, ready to implement and replicable in other regions of the country.
- Provide consumers with sufficient traceability information to make conscious and responsible purchasing decisions based on social and environmental criteria.
Results
- Design of a mixed-ownership business model for the use of high-value public utility forests.
- The economic viability of the business model has been confirmed and the minimization of environmental impact has been verified.
- Measurement of the Environmental Footprint of the production system: favorable, fulfilling the hypothesis that wood products are carbon sinks and, therefore, can contribute significantly to reducing the impacts of the industry on the natural environment.
- Identification of ecosystem services or environmental benefits in project areas verified by FSC.
- Measuring the Social Footprint and contribution to the SDGs of wood product manufacturing.
- Implementation of a traceability system based on blockchain technology so that consumers know the steps that the wood has taken and that it serves as a guarantee of its sustainable management and to know the certifications, such as FSC®, Fair Wood and the measurement of the Social Footprint.
Contact information
info@copade.org
Coordinators
- Ayuntamiento de Orea
- Ayuntamiento de Orihuela del Tremedal
- Fundación Comercio para el Desarrollo (COPADE)
- Forest Stewarship Council España (FSC)
- Fundación Centro de Servicios y Promoción Forestal y de su Industria de Castilla y León (CESEFOR)
- Leroy Merlin España S.L.U.
- Azentúa (Valor Ambiental y Sostenible S.L.)
Beneficiaries
- Ayuntamiento de Orea
- Ayuntamiento de Orihuela del Tremedal
- Fundación Comercio para el Desarrollo (COPADE)
- Forest Stewarship Council España (FSC)
- Fundación Centro de Servicios y Promoción Forestal y de su Industria de Castilla y León (CESEFOR)
- Leroy Merlin España S.L.U.
- Azentúa (Valor Ambiental y Sostenible S.L.)
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