Fire Flocks: Participating Farmers’ Perceptions after Five Years of Development

Nowadays, extensive livestock farming faces substantial threats in the Mediterranean region, provoking a setback dynamic in the sector. In 2016, the Fire Flocks (FF) project was conceived and implemented as a regional strategy to revert this situation and revalue the sector in Catalonia, in the NE o...

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Autores: Nuss Girona, Sergi, Soy Massoni, Emma, Canaleta Garcia, Guillem, Olay, Ona, Domènech, Rut, Prat-Guitart, Núria
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Data de publicação:2022
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
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Palavra-chave:Incendis forestals -- Prevenció i control
Forest fires -- Prevention and control
Boscos -- Gestió
Forest management
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spelling Fire Flocks: Participating Farmers’ Perceptions after Five Years of DevelopmentNuss Girona, SergiSoy Massoni, EmmaCanaleta Garcia, GuillemOlay, OnaDomènech, RutPrat-Guitart, NúriaIncendis forestals -- Prevenció i controlForest fires -- Prevention and controlBoscos -- GestióForest managementNowadays, extensive livestock farming faces substantial threats in the Mediterranean region, provoking a setback dynamic in the sector. In 2016, the Fire Flocks (FF) project was conceived and implemented as a regional strategy to revert this situation and revalue the sector in Catalonia, in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula. FF promotes forest management through extensive livestock farming, and more specifically silvopastoralism, to reduce vegetation load and wildfire risk. The initiative also works on fire risk awareness with the aim of promoting extensive livestock products through FF label and valorization strategies. Five years after its initial implementation, the project managers detected several weaknesses and potential improvements directly affecting the economic and environmental performance of the participating farms. It was therefore considered necessary to conduct targeted qualitative interviews with the farmers participating in the project in order to gather their opinions on the project’s functioning and further steps. To this end, 17 farmers were interviewed with the aid of a qualitative questionnaire. The farmers stated that although FF is not providing them with any direct financial benefits, it does present an opportunity to belong to a group of farmers working on wildfire prevention, thereby lending them a voice as a group, and reaching more social visibility. The qualitative analyses elucidate key elements to be promoted in FF, such as redesign of the operational structure, expansion to a regional scale and action lines to facilitate grazing activityThis research was funded by Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso (grant numbers 2‐AD‐2016 and 2‐AD‐2018) and Fundación Caja de Ingenieros (collaboration agreement)MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)2022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpeer-reviewedapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10256/21866http://hdl.handle.net/10256/21866Land, 2022, vol. 11, núm. 10, p. 1718Articles publicats (D-G)reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)Inglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3390/land11101718info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/eissn/2073-445XAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10256/218662026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title Fire Flocks: Participating Farmers’ Perceptions after Five Years of Development
spellingShingle Fire Flocks: Participating Farmers’ Perceptions after Five Years of Development
Nuss Girona, Sergi
Incendis forestals -- Prevenció i control
Forest fires -- Prevention and control
Boscos -- Gestió
Forest management
title_short Fire Flocks: Participating Farmers’ Perceptions after Five Years of Development
title_full Fire Flocks: Participating Farmers’ Perceptions after Five Years of Development
title_fullStr Fire Flocks: Participating Farmers’ Perceptions after Five Years of Development
title_full_unstemmed Fire Flocks: Participating Farmers’ Perceptions after Five Years of Development
title_sort Fire Flocks: Participating Farmers’ Perceptions after Five Years of Development
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Nuss Girona, Sergi
Soy Massoni, Emma
Canaleta Garcia, Guillem
Olay, Ona
Domènech, Rut
Prat-Guitart, Núria
author Nuss Girona, Sergi
author_facet Nuss Girona, Sergi
Soy Massoni, Emma
Canaleta Garcia, Guillem
Olay, Ona
Domènech, Rut
Prat-Guitart, Núria
author_role author
author2 Soy Massoni, Emma
Canaleta Garcia, Guillem
Olay, Ona
Domènech, Rut
Prat-Guitart, Núria
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Incendis forestals -- Prevenció i control
Forest fires -- Prevention and control
Boscos -- Gestió
Forest management
topic Incendis forestals -- Prevenció i control
Forest fires -- Prevention and control
Boscos -- Gestió
Forest management
description Nowadays, extensive livestock farming faces substantial threats in the Mediterranean region, provoking a setback dynamic in the sector. In 2016, the Fire Flocks (FF) project was conceived and implemented as a regional strategy to revert this situation and revalue the sector in Catalonia, in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula. FF promotes forest management through extensive livestock farming, and more specifically silvopastoralism, to reduce vegetation load and wildfire risk. The initiative also works on fire risk awareness with the aim of promoting extensive livestock products through FF label and valorization strategies. Five years after its initial implementation, the project managers detected several weaknesses and potential improvements directly affecting the economic and environmental performance of the participating farms. It was therefore considered necessary to conduct targeted qualitative interviews with the farmers participating in the project in order to gather their opinions on the project’s functioning and further steps. To this end, 17 farmers were interviewed with the aid of a qualitative questionnaire. The farmers stated that although FF is not providing them with any direct financial benefits, it does present an opportunity to belong to a group of farmers working on wildfire prevention, thereby lending them a voice as a group, and reaching more social visibility. The qualitative analyses elucidate key elements to be promoted in FF, such as redesign of the operational structure, expansion to a regional scale and action lines to facilitate grazing activity
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dc.source.none.fl_str_mv Land, 2022, vol. 11, núm. 10, p. 1718
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