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This policy brief summarises the MEMOLA project findings regarding the role agrobiodiversity has in reactivating Mediterranean agricultural systems. Traditional varieties are the best ambassadors of the landscape in which they are cultivated. Preserving them by intergenerational knowledge transfer may be a way to reactivate traditional agroecosystems creative cycles and to improve social and cultural resiliency. The brief also presents policy development recommendations to establish mechanisms and criteria to define its values and for their protection.

MEMOLA project, in collaboration with Sierra de Lugros Irrigators Community, cleaned and put back in use several high mountain irrigation channels with the help of 15 volunteers. 

MEMOLA cleaned and put back in use 2 medieval irrigation channels in Cáñar (Granada), with a total of 3,5 km, together with the local irrigator #community and 30 volunteers.

Cáñar Irrigators Community and 60 volunteers cleaned Barjas medieval irrigation channel. Its maintenace is crucial to reactivate the agrarian production. (Granada).

Cáñar Irrigators Community and the volunteers clean Barjas medieval irrigation channel. Its maintenace is crucial to reactivate the agrarian production.

After 35 years of abandonment, UGR recovered 5 traditional irrigation channels with Lugros, Guadix and Graena local irrigators communities and volunteers.

UGR and Arqueo, in collaboration with Pro Loco Calatafimi Segesta, attended a teaching activity with the Classic (Cielo d'Alcamo) and Scientific (G. Ferro) institutes of Alcamo, within the framework of the “Alternating School-Work” initiative.

This policy brief summarises recently developed perspectives on soils that have emerged from the findings of the MEMOLA project. The critical environmental dependency of soils is well-established yet to date soils have been undervalued and poorly recognised as cultural materials. MEMOLA has demonstrated that soils are an extensive cultural resource and form part of Europe’s rich cultural heritage.

Through a series of photographs, the exposition shows the work developed for the recovery of traditional irrigation systems in Sierra Nevada, by the irrigators communities and volunteers working within the MEMOLA project. The recovery techniques were carried out following traditional knowledge and practices, involving different ONGs, associations and stakeholders.

After 35 years of abandonment, UGR recovered 3 traditional irrigation channel with the Lugros, Guadix and Graena local irrigators communities and 40 volunteers. 

During two weekends the University of Grananada recovered three traditional irrigation channel of High Mountain in Lugros along with the irrigators communities of Lugros, Guadix and Graena, with the participation of 40 volunteers and the collaboration of Lugros city council.

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