BIOLIVAR Operational Group

The project is based on a key need in the olive sector: understanding how to improve management at the farm level, with strategies that are valid for multiple types of olive groves, to ensure sustainable, profitable, and high-quality production with improved biodiversity and sustainable use of soil and water.

In the current situation, this need can only be met for certain specific types of olive groves (by production system, soil type, slope, climate, landscape), and even in these, many farms do not have the tools to make management decisions appropriate to their reality and the specific conditions of a campaign.

Expected results

1. Development of a natural capital improvement action guide applicable to the specific characteristics of each olive farm. Although designed for integrated olive groves, this guide could be extrapolated to the vast majority of other olive grove production systems.
2. Development of a digital tool available to technicians and farmers to guide decision-making for improving the natural capital of olive groves that are no longer under exploitation.
3. Improving ecosystem services (biodiversity, soil, water, carbon sequestration) and the circular bioeconomy on the network of collaborating farms and on other farms whose owners participate in the dissemination efforts.
4. Development of a natural capital valuation tool at the farm level for monitoring and/or certification.