TIERRAE-ITíNERA Operational Group: Itinerant agricultural and livestock entrepreneurship school with a focus on rural revitalization and professional inclusion
- Type Operational group
- Status Filled
- Execution 2018 -2021
- Assigned Budget 165.000,00 €
- Scope Autonómico
- Autonomous community Madrid, Comunidad de
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website GO TERRAE-ITINERA
Description
The depopulation of rural areas and the loss of the agricultural workforce. Disillusionment/unemployment in urban areas. Lack of agricultural training and support for entrepreneurship in highly sustainable agriculture. Difficulty in accessing land. The limited social impact of the RDP on groups at greater risk of exclusion. New market trends and consumer demands for local production, fresh, seasonal, and organic products. This context generates synergies between training, advice, agroecological entrepreneurship, rural settlement, and dynamism.
Description of activities
- RECEPTION. Preparation of the call for applications to municipalities, trainers, and interested students. Presentation and pre-training sessions with municipalities: land inventory and analysis of training facilities and rental housing available to the traveling school and new residents. Selection of the host municipality.
- LEARNING. Establishment of the learning community, ongoing training, monitoring.
- SETTLEMENT. Assessment. Inventory and registration of land in the Land Bank. Advice to agroecological entrepreneurs, student settlement.
Objectives
To provide a mobile agricultural training program and validate a new, stable, and mobile training program based on the locations and agricultural, livestock, and food content taught.
Results
- Increase the supply of agricultural and livestock land, and promote a land bank for agroecological use in the region.
- Settlement of the agricultural workforce in those municipalities with the greatest potential or with the least population, contributing to the repopulation of rural areas.
- Development of a more agroecological design and utilization of agricultural activities. Self-employment alternatives for unemployed groups, taking advantage of globally underutilized resources.
- Increased production capacity and supply of agroecologically based food, especially geared toward local markets in the Madrid region.
- Create a network of municipalities, professionals, rural communities, landowners, homeowners, and training users to train new farmers adapted to the municipality's agroecological potential, attracting population and boosting the agricultural and livestock economy.
- Design a traveling school experience for agroecological training.
Contact information
- Coordinator/entity name: Marina García Llorente
- Mailing address: Not available
- Coordinator/entity email: Not available
- Telephone: Not available
Coordinators
- Marina García Llorente
Collaborators
- Ayuntamiento Redueña - RED TERRAE-MADRID (reuena@madridsierranorte.com)
- AUPA - Asociación Unida de Productores Agroecológicos (secreaupa@gmail.com)
- ARACOVE - Asociación Desarrollo Rural Comarca de las Vegas y Acarria de Alcalá (roberto.prieto@aracove.com)
- GALSINMA - Asociación Grupo AcciónLocal Sierra Norte de Madrid (juan.montoya@galsinma.org)
- ADI Sierra Oeste - Asociación para el Desarrollo Integral de la Sierra Oeste de Madrid (sierraoeste@sierraoeste.org)
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (f.martin@uam.es / violeta.hevia@uam.es)
- IMIDRA (imidra@Imidra.org)
Beneficiaries
- Marina García Llorente
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