Despite the extremely important role that soils play at all scales and in very diverse areas, in Spain there is no specific basic regulation that protects their values and promotes their restoration and improvement in the event of loss, contamination or erosion.

• It is essential to protect and maintain fertile soils in all territories (periurban and rural) ensuring production anchored in the territory that allows populations to obtain fresh, quality fruit and vegetable products associated with Mediterranean and local diets, reducing transport costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
• Fertile soil is a strategic food reserve to support local agri-food policies, to promote both the local economy and the maintenance of agricultural landscapes and where educational activities can be carried out and outdoor enjoyment can be enjoyed.

Since 2015, the signing of the InterVegas Pact and the most recent version of the proposed law have changed some of the project's objectives and concepts. It has shifted from the idea of historical agricultural territories, which only included the most fertile orchards, to the concepts of soils of high agrological value (SAVA) and other soils of agricultural interest (SIA), which include concepts of ecological infrastructure and connectivity.
Thus, the InterVegas Pact is committed to recovering agricultural spaces of high cultural value from the principles of food sovereignty, co-evolution and sustainability of historical agricultural territories (TAH) through the following actions:

1. Promote and adapt regulations to classify TAHs in an agro-environmental manner and protect their soils from any other use not compatible with agricultural activity and recover degraded areas.
2. Stimulate agricultural activity and promote and finance the recovery of TAH:
   1. Promote short channels, crops of social interest, local product markets and the valuation of TAH products.
   2. Introduce best practices: diversify crops and forms of production through innovation, technical support, grouping, joint marketing and fiscal measures.
3. Recognizing the role of farming through:
   1. Aid aimed at the professionalization of the sector.
   2. The recovery and transmission of knowledge about land management and agricultural practices.
4. Work on TAHs and their historical values:
   1. Catalogue of territorial heritage assets, with a recovery and revitalization plan that prioritizes agricultural use.
   2. Strategic management and sustainable development plan for the definition and manifestation of the values of the TAH.
5. Maintain and preserve the territorial structure through recovery, correct signage, maintenance and preservation for both agricultural uses and for sustainable complementary uses of rivers, irrigation canals, roads and livestock tracks.
6. Encourage public administrations to develop an initial and ongoing professional training program, as well as education programs on biodiversity, sustainable production and environmental conservation:
   1. Employment for generational succession.
   2. Awareness, knowledge and appreciation of agricultural activity.
7. Disseminate the values of TAH to the general public.
8. Create a state council for the TAH network.

The law protects SAVAs and SIAs for their important functions through the following actions:

1. Establish a legal protection regime for SAVA and SIA throughout the territory of the State, respecting the powers of the autonomous communities and municipalities.
2. Establish regulations and criteria that guarantee the active conservation of SAVA and SIA and their multiple values.
3. Define specific figures for territorial management and promotion of agriculture in spaces in which SAVA and SIA are identified.
4. Contribute to the viability and maintenance of small and medium-sized agricultural holdings in SAVA and SIA.
5. Avoid pressures derived from urban expansion, infrastructure development and any other phenomenon that makes the soil more artificial (sealing, fragmentation or change of use).
6. Promote organic, differentiated and quality production.
7. Contribute to stopping rural depopulation and the abandonment of professional agricultural activity.
8. Improve the channels of participation of farm owners, professional agricultural and cooperative organizations in the consultative bodies of public administrations.
9. Establish measures to guarantee the incorporation of young people and women into agricultural activity.

• We are looking for a flexible and basic law that can be transferred to the various autonomous communities.
• The strength and weakness at the same time is that there is no official structure and that there are all kinds of people. Everyone's voice has been respected.
• Within the Federation there is great technical qualification.
• The Federation is a good example of self-organization to propose laws and change aspects that directly impact the transformation of the food system and the defense of natural capital.
• From the very beginning, there has been a desire to include all political groups in order to seek consensus.

As it is not a legal entity, it does not have an allocated budget. Some actions, such as meetings, are financed through subsidies and contributions from individuals and entities associated with the Federation.