Biodiversity Foundation Project: Climate change adaptation strategies for extensive livestock farming in Spain: a social perspective
- Type Project
- Execution 2018 -2019
- Scope Europeo
- Main source of financing Fundación Biodiversidad
- Project website Web proyecto (Fundación Biodiversidad)
Extensive livestock farming has been analyzed to determine strategies to address climate change and to disseminate its current situation to administrative bodies and the public at large. Extensive livestock farming is an activity with significant socio-environmental benefits that, despite its significant capacity to adapt to climate change, is seriously threatened by a series of factors (demographic, economic, political, etc.) that must be reversed to ensure the continuity of an activity that provides important ecosystem services to society as a whole.
The Balmes University Foundation was awarded the 2017 Grant Call for the project "Climate Change Adaptation Strategies in Spanish Extensive Livestock Farming: A Social Perspective." The aim was to identify climate change adaptation strategies being developed in the extensive livestock sector in Spain within a context of global change.
To begin delimiting and describing the pastoral areas studied, as well as to identify changes and adaptations, the organization conducted a literature review on the status of extensive livestock farming in the territories in question, especially in relation to global change.
Interviews were also conducted with key informants from the main pastoral regions and extensive livestock farmers from different Autonomous Communities. Once the research process and the study report were completed, the organization produced an executive summary for policymakers with recommendations affecting institutions at all levels (local, regional, and national) regarding the matter. In parallel with drafting the report for the presentation of the project results at the 2nd International ADAPTtoCLIMATE Conference, the team was invited to publish the results in the scientific journal Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration.
To disseminate the project's results to the general public, a video animation was created on "extensive livestock farming and climate change." It presented the main problems facing extensive livestock farming, highlighted its socio-environmental benefits, and suggested some of the actions that could be taken to reverse its current plight.
Identify climate change adaptation strategies being developed in the extensive livestock sector in Spain within a framework of global change.
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