SILVPAST: Cost-efficient implementation of silvo-pastoral mosaic systems of black oak

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Description: 

The Operational Group SILVPAST (GO SILVPAST) on the “Cost-efficient implementation of silvo-pastoral mosaics of Quercus pyrenaica” will test and develop a method for the implementation of silvo-pastoral mosaics, using remote sensing approaches, that supports agricultural and forestry activity in areas of Pyrenean oak, which typically have low agricultural value.

GO SILVPAST targets two levels of intervention. The farm or property level, where the main actors are the forest owners and managers, and the level of territorial management where the main actors are the policy makers, from the local to the national level.

The silvo-pastoral model being proposed, as well as the planning and management tools that will be developed, aim to address the current lack of cost-efficient management alternatives in these regions and to promote economic viability through greater multifunctionality and resilience, and lower management costs.

The main objectives are:

  • Test a cost-efficient production process that enables silvo-pastoral activity and guarantees its long-term sustainability
  • Deliver methods and tools for the replication of the proposed process
  • Support decision-making, and the evaluation and design of agri-environmental policy
  • Promote the restoration of Pyrenean oak forest
  • Contribute to control the risk of fire
  • Strengthen territorial resilience to environmental and socio-economic changes
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