Fundación Monte Mediterráneo

Rural topic(s): Sustainable forestry, Agroecology and agroforestry

City: Santa Olalla del Cala

Country: Spain

Web site: https://www.fundacionmontemediterraneo.com/

Fundación Monte Mediterráneo, Andalusia. The foundation was created in 1992 animted by the World Exposition EXPO’92 in Seville. The aim was to put into practice with a concrete example what had been declared in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 as “sustainable development”. The adventure of a sustainable and ecological development in an Andalusian ecosystem – the Dehesa – had begun. Since then it follows the tradition of managing the dehesa: the Spanish name for grazed oak groves, which are mainly found in the southwest of Spain.

Scale of intervention : Local

Keywords: agroforestry, agroecology, pastoralism, direct selling, biodiversity conservation

Places: Spain

Actors: fundation, association

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Fundación Monte Mediterráneo, a foundation dedicated to the management of “Dehesa”, an agroforestry ecosystem in Andalusia, Spain.