Biodiversity Foundation PASTURE+ Project: Livestock products that restore natural capital, mitigate climate change, and promote rural development
- Type Project
- Execution 2022
- Scope Europeo
- Main source of financing Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia (PRTR)
- Project website Web proyecto (Fundación Biodiversidad)
Project to promote good agricultural and livestock practices in pastures, woody crops, and Mediterranean and mountain pastures, with the aim of restoring soils and biodiversity, promoting climate change mitigation and rural development by promoting the marketing and added value of the products generated.
To this end, the project will first implement and monitor best practices using a comprehensive management approach (adaptive management plans, rotational grazing, and the implementation of technological innovations). In addition, the marketing of products with environmental value will be promoted, along with training and green job promotion, as well as the transfer and creation of networks. Best practices will be implemented on 36 farms (5,800 ha), where increases are expected in environmental indicators (pollinators, soil fauna, vegetation, and carbon content in vegetation and soil) and in the quantity of dry matter per hectare and pasture quality, as well as decreases in GHG emissions and the carbon footprint. Furthermore, the project is expected to increase the gross margin per activity by 20% by reducing feed costs and increasing animal production. Three new meat products with environmental value will be marketed, and 15 PASTURE+ farms will be recognized in other differentiation frameworks by the end of the project.
Pastures represent more than a third of terrestrial ecosystems, half of Spain's usable agricultural land, and if traditionally dryland woody crops (olive trees, grapes, nuts) are managed with permanent cover, the area could increase to two-thirds.
They play a key role as carbon sinks in biodiversity conservation and rural development. Currently, many of them show signs of degradation, mainly due to the intensification and simplification of management in some cases, and the abandonment of activities in others, thereby threatening the supply of environmental goods and services.
The PASTURE+ bioeconomy project aims to contribute to soil and biodiversity restoration, as well as to assist in climate change mitigation and rural development. To this end, it will implement good agricultural and livestock practices by defining the management context and planning grazing land—financial and land—in dehesa, Mediterranean, and mountain pastures.
- FUNDACIÓN AAP PARA LA ACOGIDA DE ANIMALES EXÓTICOS (AAP PRIMADOMUS)
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