PAISACTIVO – Firebreak Landscapes: Activating Rural Areas

PAISACTIVO – Firebreak Landscapes: Activating Rural Areas for a Resilient Territory is a project whose actions set out to make rural areas more resilient to wildfire risk, improving the sustainable management of agroforestry land and protecting and revitalising rural settlements so they can sustain themselves. The project aims to identify the sustainable activities best suited to each territory, weighing several factors: the nature of the activity, market access, effective management (with a capable operator or entrepreneur in place) and how well the activity fits the territory. The end goal is to create biomass-free buffer mosaics at the interface between village and agroforestry land, and in the surrounding area, so as to increase fire resilience even in the areas furthest from the villages. Beyond that main effect, the project seeks to reverse depopulation and, where feasible, to increase the resident population, both permanent and seasonal.