This report presents a broad variety of land practices tending towards an agricultural, social and ecological transition. In this sense, the report assumes its normative character and the fact that it does not deal with the issue of access to land “in general”, but of access for specific agricultural models based on sustainable and community-connected approaches. In this report, “access to land” is used as a broad category, including first-time access for those who could not farm but also paying attention to the long-term aspect of access to land, which Ribot and Lee Peluso call “access maintenance” and define as “expending resources or powers to keep a particular sort of resource access open” (Ribot and Lee Peluso 2003). Access to land thus also concerns the ability for farmers to keep their activity viable in the long term. Preserving land and steering its use for sustainable and small-scale farming participates to this process, understood in a broad sense.

30/03/2021

RURALIZATION project investigates regeneration of rural areas in Europe. Regeneration is an ongoing process and it has many avenues ahead. Trend analysis is one way to get ideas of the possible ingredients of the updated rural Europe and related future developments. Trends provide opportunities to benefit from mainstream force fields (megatrends), from some context specific developments (trends) or from symptoms of change (weak signals). Trend is not a norm neither a promise of a certain kind of future, since every societal trend is valid only for a limited period of time and every trend will end. Identification and assessment of trends that have relevance for rural regeneration is an integral part of RURALIZATION process in which the opportunities are translated into promising practices and policies.

This report provides a documentation of the extensive trend analysis exercise that was carried out in 2019–2020 by the participants of the project.

31/01/2021

This report is a documentation for an extensive futures dreams inventory which was carried out by the RURALIZATION team. A diverse set of 20 regions in 10 countries was selected to be the study areas. A sample of young people (18–30 years) living in these areas was invited to describe the personal dream future in about 15 years (year 2035). The dream futures consisted of the livelihood recipe (how do you earn your living?), the accommodation recipe (where do you live?) and the lifestyle recipe (how do you live?) as well as the obstacles for realising the dream. The inventories were carried out in national languages and they followed a shared format.

31/01/2021

19/01/2021

The RURALIZATION project aims to look at ways to overcome rural decline issues that support rural regeneration and generational renewal. The empirical focus of the project is to develop, assess and disseminate novel instruments, strategies and policies that cater for rural regeneration, in relation to the future dreams of rural youth, facilitating rural newcomers, succession and new entrants into farming and by addressing the issue of access to land. RURALIZATION will also carry out a trend analysis to uncover relevant trends for rural regions. This knowledge base will culminate in generating effective policy tools, and through this RURALIZATION aims to contribute to the development of a new rural frontier that provides exciting opportunities to new rural generations for social and economic sustainability and to realise their dreams in a rural context. Overall, RURALIZATION develops a novel perspective for rural areas to trigger a process of ruralisation as a counterforce to urbanisation.

30/10/2020

El decàleg té per objectiu facilitar, a escala municipal, l’impuls d’iniciatives de promoció de la salut vinculades als espais naturals, tot identificant els actors i actius. Aquest document és d’especial interès per a tècnics municipals.

Juliol 2020

Al repositori trobareu un recull de documentació de recursos, estudis i experiències sobre salut i natura, amb especial atenció a l’àmbit municipal. Conté més de 60 entrades.

Juliol 2020

El objetivo de esta Guía es proporcionar una metodología innovadora
para la implementación de espacios test agrarios.

Los espacios test agrarios son una iniciativa que tiene por objetivo facilitar el relevo generacional en las explotaciones agrícolas, ganaderas y forestales, atrayendo y asentando a las personas jóvenes en los territorios rurales. Son espacios de experimentación de actividades agrarias en que la persona emprendedora puede probar su modelo de empresa en un entorno seguro, en el que puede simular como sería su actividad profesional en un futuro.

Mayo 2020

El informe analiza los mecanismos innovadores de financiación con potencialidad para aplicarse en el Estado Español para la conservación de la biodiversidad en la gestión forestal sostenible. Se ha explorado un amplio abanico de mecanismos públicos (medidas fiscales, fondos europeos, fondos verdes, etc.), privados (fondos de capital, certificaciones, responsabilidad social corporativa, etc.), o públicos/privados (mercados de carbono, bancos de biodiversidad, pago por servicios ambientales, etc.).

El documento también explora las posibilidades del uso del Índice de Biodiversidad Potencial (IBP), una herramienta práctica de medición indirecta de la biodiversidad forestal que se está adaptando al contexto mediterráneo en el marco del proyecto Life BIORGEST, para el diseño de instrumentos políticos y económicos orientados hacia una silvicultura que mantenga o mejore la biodiversidad.

Finalmente, se dan algunas orientaciones y recomendaciones para poder implementar estos mecanismos de financiación de forma más eficaz en el contexto español.

Marzo 2020

The first chapter describes why there is a need for these kinds of initiatives. The second chapter helps groups of people to start from scratch, define their goals and create a solid basis. The third chapter brings more advanced information on how to proceed as a land initiative buying farmland, working with farmers, landowners and local communities and so on. The fourth chapter presents the Access to Land Network.

February 2020

Informe que recull les iniciatives de custòdia, tant públiques com privades, existents a Catalunya. 

Les dades demostren la rellevància de les iniciatives de custòdia per a la conservació d’espais naturals protegits i hàbitats i espècies d’interès comunitari a Catalunya.

Febrer 2020