project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
Organizational and technological modeling of agro-environmental management of mountain pastures based on participation. Pilot experience in Gorbeia
Objectives
Development of a support system for decision-making in the management of mountain pastures in the area of the Gorbeia Massif in its Biscayan side with the proposal of management scenarios in accordance with the ecological potentials and the needs of users, contributing in this way to the revitalization of the rural environment.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
- Rural Development Programme
- 2014ES06RDRP015 Spain - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - País Vasco
Emplacement
- Main geographical location
- Vizcaya
- Other geographical location
- Álava
EUR 186 448.00
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
Project keyword
Ressources
Audiovisual Material
2 Practice Abstracts
Monitoring is a process of repeated observation in space and time of one or more elements of the medium, according to pre-established protocols, using comparable data collection methods. This means that this path begun must be continued, specifying and increasing objectives, identifying and completing the components of the socio-ecological system and its most important relationships that allow for a deeper understanding of its structure and operation, seeking indicators that characterize the system and make possible the detection of changes in their behavior, so that it is useful to managers.
Two aspects stand out in this monitoring plan:
- (i) the use of GPS technology in animals. The registered information of the geolocation of the animals overturned through a GIS in different layers of thematic information of interest (habitats of community interest, protected species, topography, cleared areas, strategic placement of livestock infrastructures, proportion of major / minor livestock, etc.) allows a spatial-temporal vision of great interest in the interpretation of the movement of animals, and its subsequent projection in the management of grazing areas.
- And the second aspect to highlight as an innovator is (ii) the participation of farmers in the monitoring plan, thus contributing to a high degree of involvement as well as greater training in the agricultural sector in our country.
The innovative nature of this project is based on the holistic vision of grazing systems as socio-ecological systems, where the link between the social and cultural component is very close to the ecological component. Understanding and managing this link is the key to the success of sustainable management of mountain grazing areas. In this context, the development of a new organizational model, as is the aim of this project, guarantees the presence of all the agents involved in the different phases from early stages. At the same time, multidisciplinary work will enrich the vision and solutions that contribute to the needs of users. Collaborators, key institutions in the management of consensual technical decisions, join all of this.On the other hand, the incorporation of a monitoring plan for pasture conservation actions, even though it is widely valued in improving management, can be considered as an innovative character in our territorial context.
Contacts
Project coordinator
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Gorbeialde LGA
Project coordinator
Project partners
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Asociación de ganaderos Basobaltz
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Asociación de ganaderos Gorbeiazpi
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Asociación de ganaderos Itzina
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Asociación de ganaderos Upokomakatza
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Lorra Coop
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Neiker
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