Inspira Territorio – Sierra de Aracena

Inspira Territorio (IT) is a motto, an alliance and a process. Our motto is to “inspire” local inhabitants, and visitors of the Sierra de Aracena to value local agrifood products, the knowledge and the landscapes that support our traditional farming system. The alliance is composed of diverse actors including activists for food sovereignty, researchers, farmers, small local companies, the local development group and public administrations, who share a common pathway of collaborations and mutual support to further advance agroecology and food sovereignty in the Sierra de Aracena. The process, resulting from decades of agroecological initiatives in the Sierra de Aracena, catalysed into “Inspira Territorio” in 2019 and has, since then, articulated research, public and technical events, farm visits, trainings and contests and policy incidence to promote a territorialised agroecological agrifood system.

The aim of Inspira Territorio is to promote a localised and agroecological agrifood system, preserving and valorising traditional ecological knowledge while incorporating innovations to support farmers and other relevant actors of the agrifood system. Our research largely follows a participatory-action-research approach, bottom-up driven and aimed at fulfilling the requirements identified by the alliance step by step.