GRANGE

Generational Renewal (GR) is one of the key issues in the context of the future of agriculture. Yet, little systematic knowledge exists about which factors hinder GR and how it distributes geographically, in particular around the role of climate change in shaping GR dynamics. Building on and complementing previous perspectives around GR, and focused on the Spanish case, GRANGE aims to assess the inter-connected factors that make the GR problem considering prominently the role of climate change in shaping GR, as well as identifying possible future farming desertion hotspots. These hotspots are areas, given the interaction and compounded effects of environmental and socio-economic factors, more exposed to land abandonment and traditional knowledge loss.

GRANGE integrates qualitative and quantitative accounts of GR and farming desertion and put local people at the center of knowledge co-production and policy co-design by pursuing the following three objectives:

• To develop a systematic understanding of the inter-connected drivers of GR in Spain, including climate change and socio-economic factors (O1)
• To generate regional indexes to measure the vulnerability to farming desertion acknowledging for differences between crops (O2)
• To work with national and regional stakeholders to explore policies that reduce such vulnerability and that can preserve the traditional agricultural knowledge needed to adapt to future environmental changes (O3)