Programs and Initiatives

Weekly Slow Food farmers’ market at Barcelona’s Jardins de les Tres Xemeneies, connecting local sustainable producers directly with consumers and combining seasonal food sales with workshops, tastings and public education around responsible consumption and food sovereignty.

LIFE ECOREST restores around 30,000 hectares of high-value deep-sea habitats off the Girona and Barcelona coasts by recovering and transplanting habitat-forming benthic species, combining research and conservation with fishing-sector participation, capacity building and governance.

Proposed coordination table bringing municipalities, farmers, industries and other water users together to decide conservation measures, allocation and compensation during severe water scarcity.

Consortium created in 2011 by 19 municipalities to coordinate river conservation, sustainable development, cross-boundary issues and joint funding proposals across the Fluvià basin.

Eco CAT+ — transboundary Catalan eco-label reflecting the standard of sustainable excellence. POCTEFA-CAT program initiative.

A cooperative inter-cooperation project in Catalonia aimed at consolidating initiatives, preserving agricultural heritage, promoting agroecological transition, and fostering inclusive, sustainable food systems with social transformation capacity.

A cooperative inter-cooperation project in Catalonia aimed at consolidating initiatives, preserving agricultural heritage, promoting agroecological transition, and fostering inclusive, sustainable food systems with social transformation capacity.

A long-term project with indicators grouped across food sovereignty dimensions including rural life, productive sector, women’s rights, popular control, agroecology, education, right to food, and natural resource conservation.

Projecte Rius is a Catalunya river-monitoring and environmental-volunteering programme connected to Associació Hàbitats, focused on observing, conserving, and improving river ecosystems.

Catalan territorial matchfunding initiative connected to Goteo and comarcal councils.

Catalan coastal bioblitz and marine biodiversity citizen-science initiative.

Catalan bat-monitoring and citizen-science programme connected to MCNG.

Catalan environmental donation platform for nature-protection projects and organizations.

Catalan butterfly monitoring programme connected to MCNG and long-term biodiversity tracking.

Catalan environmental-volunteering portal coordinated around conservation participation and citizen action.

Catalonia-wide food-system initiative connecting local producers and elaborators with local shops to make healthy local food more accessible while strengthening pagesia and local commerce.

Garrotxa-based initiative coordinated by Resilience.Earth and Associació Núria Social, using participatory processes to support territorial transformation.

Fluvià watershed regeneration initiative combining biodiversity recovery and monitoring, citizen science, volunteering, environmental education, land and river stewardship, support for small projects along the river, and inclusive governance across municipalities, public agencies, communities, and other local actors.

Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona climate-emergency initiative and action framework for responding to climate change across the Barcelona metropolitan territory.

RAIN — Regenerative Agriculture Innovation Network — is a Catalunya-facing initiative to coordinate, accelerate, and scale the transition toward regenerative agriculture.

ImpulsaRuralESS is a collective initiative strengthening rural entrepreneurship through needs diagnosis, tailored training, resources, and peer networks for people driving projects with social, ecological, and territorial values.

RegeneraCat is a CREAF-led research project expanding regenerative agriculture and viticulture across Catalunya by comparing regenerative and conventional plots in several Catalan farms.