COMPIGRA offers an end-user approach for validating a common methodology in the process of development and consolidation of an on-site–Soil Health Living Lab (LL) in rainfed semi-arid Mediterranean agricultural areas.
The concept is built on a bottom-up approach to link the aspirations for a better technical knowledge and socioeconomic development of farmers in rural areas with a healthier soil for agricultural production and the provision of ecosystem services for hillslope woody crops. Empowering the next generation of stakeholders to consolidate a LL and lead a program of innovations to augment soil health, facing water scarcity, reducing soil health deterioration due water erosion and leaching, and increasing soil-organic C, which will be led to enhance drought resilience and economic prospects of farmers. Concretely, COMPIGRA ambition is to foster the drought resilience and economic prospects based on crop productivity enhancement, concretely, in mountainous areas to link the improvement of soil health with the enhancement of sustainability prospect of farms, particularly small and medium ones in Granada province.