Barcelona – Fighting rural poverty, weak economy, loss of soils and arable lands, and loss of biodiversity, the Centre Civic La Sedeta, Mediterranean Eco-operation Program, SODEPAU and Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon urge to set up a community of practices (research, actions and capacity building) in the field of Hima (Agro-ecology & ecosystems restoration) & similar community-led initiatives in the Euro-Mediterranean region. An ambitious Consortium set to start next year
If last year we dedicated the Cultural Week “Gràcia with the Mediterranean” to the planetary ecological crisis with a critical look from our region Mediterranean (limits to growth, the great differences in energy and resource consumption, waste generation and polluting emissions, the necessary interrelation between countries to cover the problems and strategies to be developed), this year we want discussed at Espai Joves la Fontana (Gràcia-Barcelona) the current challenges that concern us the most at our communities: hunger, water deficit, energy, depopulation and the actions to address them. With the support of Barcelona City (District of Gràcia) we organized this round table within the framework of the XXIX Cultural Week “Gràcia with the Youth of the Mediterranean” held from 18 to 27 November 2022, with a particular focus on agroecological local responses, hima and homat al-hima, rural and coastal intangible cultural heritage, localized agrifood systems, involvement of young professionals, people-centered development, Nature-based solutions, ecological restoration, territorial approach, businesses with social, cultural and environmental values.
