The approval of the Catalonia 2030 Bioeconomy Strategy is one of the topics highlighted in the latest BCN Smart Rural press briefing.
Green light to the Catalonia 2030 Bioeconomy Strategy
The Catalonia 2030 Bioeconomy Strategy is the roadmap for the territory's transition towards a more sustainable economic development model and has, as its main objective, the promotion of the production of biological, local and renewable resources . Among the new measures to be carried out, it stands out the improvement of forest management and the use of its resources, the creation of agroforestry landscapes resilient to climate change and providers of ecosystem services, the valorization of livestock droppings and organic waste , and the use of waste and surpluses in the agri-food chain.
The document 'Ubunto_22_ubunto 2030 Bioeconomy Strategy' is available at this link.
The Common Agrarian Policy at the time of truth
The new CAP will be in force until 2027 and states that 25% of direct payments must be allocated to the fight against climate change.
(Via Empresa)
Land banks: facilitating access to land from the local world
While the agricultural sector is aging, there are young people who would like to join but have difficulties in formalizing leases or other ways of linking to land that they do not own. It is in this context that local bodies play a key role in the design, creation, promotion and revitalization of land banks.
(Agrocultura)
Horticulture that wants to stop plowing
Practicing truly sustainable agriculture, which helps mitigate climate change and is not another source of greenhouse gas emissions, is a challenge that some farmers are facing. In this issue, they talk, among others, with Olivier Chantry, farmer from Cal Notari in Sant Boi de Llobregat, and Gilad Buzi, from the Aurora del Camp al Masnou estate.
(Agrocultura)
The number of hectares of this crop has doubled in five years and now represents 44% of the total of Catalan vineyards.
(Benvinguts a Rural)
Pastoring is easy if you know how
Guaranteeing the generational relay of the extensive livestock farming is the main objective of the School of Pastors of Catalonia.
(El Nacional)
How to contribute to forest fire prevention when filling the fridge
The 'Ramats de Foc' seal distinguishes meat and dairy products from cattle that graze in the forest and contribute to cleaning it.
(Arrels)
Owners of forests in Collserola join forces to prevent forest fires
The aim of the association Collserola Iniciatives is to develop forestry, agricultural and livestock uses that add value to the territories and help preserve the ecological, cultural and landscape values of the mountain range. As explained by Joachim Englert, technical forestry engineer of the Catalan Federation of Forest Owners' Associations, "currently there is only 1.6% of agricultural land" and the loss of this activity has increased the risk of fire.
(Tot Sant Cugat)
New guide for forest-water management
Forests and trees play a vital role in meeting the world's growing demand for water and must be managed to obtain water-related ecosystem services. This guide, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, reviews emerging techniques and methodologies and provides guidance and recommendations on how to manage forests for water ecosystem services.
(FAO)
The major scientific report on climate change is published
'Climate change 2021: the basis of physical science' is the first of a series of studies on this subject to be published in the coming months by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and represents the first major review of this environmental threat since 2013. The report states that the warming of the atmosphere, oceans and land is due to human action, and points out that one of the areas that will suffer the most from the climate crisis is the Mediterranean According to this document, there will be more heat waves, droughts and fires, and this extreme phenomenology will directly impact agricultural activity.
(El País
The climate crisis is a major threat to our food systems
A CGIAR study highlights the importance of sensitizing governments to prioritize the creation of healthier, sustainable and equitable food systems in the current climate emergency context.
(CCAFS)
Regenerative agriculture, an alternative to end emissions from the countryside
According to CREAF researchers , the change would fully offset the sector's CO2 emissions, in addition to increasing production, quality and water savings.
(CCMA)
The FAO presents some practical tools to increase the absorption of organic carbon in the soil
The two products announced are a world map illustrating the amount of CO2 that soils can capture and in which places, as well as a series of technical manuals of good practices to capture and maintain reserves in soils of organic carbon.
(FAO)
Mixed cereal and leguminous crops increase net CO2 uptake
Mixed crops of cereals and legumes, compared to monocultures of cereal, have higher productivity and net assimilation of CO2, according to research carried out by a team of researchers from the Forest Science and Technology Center of Catalonia, the University of Lleida, CREAF and ETH Zurich. The study has been published in the journal 'Fields Crops Research' and is the first evaluation of the CO2 flows of an intensively managed forage system in the Pyrenees.
(Benvinguts a Rural)
Meat accounts for almost 60% of greenhouse gases from food production
A study published in 'Nature Food ' confirms, worldwide, that the production of meat causes twice as many emissions as the production of plant-based foods.
(The Guardian)
Sustainable agro-food: Options from the Catalan reality
Agriculture becomes the favorite victim of climate change. But at the same time, agriculture and livestock farming are the cause of climate change. We are facing a problem of great complexity, which the economist Francesc Reguant analyzes in this technical article.
(Ruralcat)
Easy guide to sustainably feed us every day
Food causes a quarter of the total greenhouse effect gases emitted into the atmosphere . How can we change our diet to make it more sustainable? This article collects the reflections of three experts in the field: the farmer and publicist Marc Casabosch, the partner of the Arran de Terra cooperative, Anaïs Sastre, and the cook Ada Parellada .
(El Crític)
Biomass for the Climate in 2 minutes
Among the projects promoted by Barcelona Provincial Council to promote the use of forest biomass, the installation of fourteen boilers in municipal facilities by province in Barcelona stands out. The program is called ' Biomass pel Clima ' and aims to help close the natural cycle of fuel production and consumption at a local scale.
(Sostenible)
Urban agriculture is proliferating not only as a sustainable production system but as a tool to improve the environment.
(Món sostenible)
The Ecological and Community Gardens of Manresa turn two years old
The Culla orchards are divided into 16 plots of 80 or 150 square meters. They are multifunctional spaces, which provide a sustainable supply, and which generate links with the environment, the community and learning.
(Sostenible)
There are more than 500 varieties of wild and edible plants in Catalan forests. Since 2016, the Eixarcolant project has been promoting research and knowledge.
(Directa)
Jorba will host the future workshop of the Conca d'Òdena Agricultural Park
The new space will be used for vegetable, dairy and meat workshop tasks produced in the Òdena Basin. The installation will allow the small production of transformed products to contribute to local development, agroecology and food sovereignty. From County Council de l'Anoia, the drafting of the executive project for the adaptation of this space to the new workshop uses will soon be tendered. The tasks will be done with the support of Jorba's Barcelona Provincial Council and City Council.
(InfoAnoia)
They get 95,000 euros to show that a new food model is possible
Eixarcolant will allocate the proceeds to the project that wants to explain where food comes from and how the money they cost is distributed. Its center of operations is the Jorba oven, a business that has been managed by this collective for a few months and which serves as a basis for putting into practice what they enact.
(Arrels)
The County Council of Vallès Occidental advises artisanal producers and processors
The professional advice aims to help county producers and developers to be able to develop their business. That is why strategies are addressed to boost sales, how to innovate, how to improve positioning and how to make a financial or commercial action plan. The service is offered to agri-food companies affiliated to the Land Products Network of Vallès Occidental, a program promoted by the Barcelona Provincial Council.
(Terrassa Digital)
This award aims to distinguish projects aimed at the field of food and that include in their program parameters linked to the objectives of sustainable development, such as the use of renewable energies, rural development, the promotion of innovation and resistant infrastructures, the maintenance of biodiversity, gender equality, among others. Nominations can be submitted to agrònoms@agronoms.cat before October 10, 2021.
(Ruralcat)
More than 32,000 people participate in 'Benvinguts a Pagès'
The great festival of the Catalan peasantry regains presence in an edition in which the vast majority of holdings in Bages, Osona, Anoia, Maresme and Berguedà have exhausted the available places.
(El Punt Avui)
Igualada hosts the most crowded Gastronomic Festival of Forgotten Plants
From the organization, they highlight the large influx of people, and above all the fact that approximately 70% of the participants were from outside county, thus denoting the attraction capacity of an initiative that in a few years has consolidated as the reference event of a sector that claims forgotten plants as a tool to change the model of food production and consumption.
(La Veu de l'Anoia)
The defense of the rural world in 10 points
The College of Agricultural Engineers of Catalonia presents a decalogue that lists the main demands to ensure the future of rural areas.
(Arrels)
The transformative proposal of La Rural de Collserola is getting bigger
The agricultural cooperative is starting a new stage in which it will turn the farmhouse in Can Ferriol into a home for four families, an educational athene and a children's school.
(Arrels)
Replace crop fields with airstrips
20% of Catalonia's total vegetable production is obtained from the fields of the Llobregat delta. The economic growth model of the Llobregat delta based on infrastructure and mega-projects puts this agricultural activity at risk.
(Directa)
Neighbors Cornellà and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat are mobilizing to save their agricultural spaces
The mobilizations to save Ricarda and the natural spaces of the Delta de Llobregat have recently occupied many front pages. But the territory is also concerned about several urban projects that threaten the last agricultural areas of Cornellà and L'Hospitalet de Llobregat.
(Lo mejor)
Farmers are asking to stop using the offer milk as a claim
The agricultural unions continue with the actions to get the big supermarket chains to buy the milk at a fair price.
(Arrels)
A territory without fields: how is the metropolitan population fed?
This article analyzes the dependence of the metropolitan area of Barcelona on the rest of the country in order to obtain its food resources and warns of the progressive loss of agricultural areas.
(Línia Xarxa)
Cal Pauet de l'Espunyola fights so that the extension of the C-26 does not damage the estate
The project compromises the future of this agro-livestock farm in Berguedà, a pioneer in ecological agriculture and which is now evolving towards regenerative farming.
(Arrels)
Marc Talavera: "What you eat is politics"
The president of the Eixarcolant collective talks about the importance of transforming the agri-food model and recovering forgotten plants.
(Ara)
The head of climate change and biodiversity countyl of Unió de Pagesos al Baix Llobregat denounces the threats that weigh on the farming of the Llobregat delta.
(Directa)
Mireia Franch: "Agricultural activity is regenerative and healthy for people"
Sambucus is a cooperative in Osona that develops a labor integration project and, among others, it does so through agriculture. Its manager tells us about a project that includes an agricultural estate in Sant Pere de Torelló, a vegetable garden and a restaurant in Manlleu. From the field to the table.
(Arrels)
Activist Liz Castro promotes the Eskocells movement to landscape the area around Barcelona's trees and help make the city greener.
(Arrels)
Bernat Torras: "We drive modern animal traction with today's technology and looking to the future"
Bernat Torres currently works for several wineries after discovering the work with horses and throwing himself into it fully.
(Vadevi)
Interview with a pastor and writer who wants to challenge the world to eat better.
(La Vanguardia)
Xavier Xortó: "Fires don't go out when they burn, they go out in winter"
The coordinator of the Forest Defense Groups of Penedès-Garraf assures that creating opportunities in the rural world would serve to prevent fires
(Arrels)
Agrarianism, a philosophy or a necessity for food production?
The agricultural engineer Carles Folch advocates in favor of a new agrarianism that defends the interests of the primary sector in the face of urban planning devouring farmland.
(Agricultura de Catalunya)
IRTA's strategic development coordinator, Anna Palli, explains that the problems we currently suffer in relation to food will increase in the future: everything points to the fact that the climate crisis will transform into a food crisis.
(Do Better)
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