Management strategies for sustainable agropastoralism
Enhancing the resilience of small traditional farms in the Mediterranean Area
Project Platform
The SUREPASTOR platform aims to showcase social feeds, pilot farms actions, and innovative solutions developed and tested within the Project. The platform presents tools, practices, and strategies for sustainable pasture management, described from both a scientific perspective and a socio-economic viewpoint, using indicators that illustrate their effectiveness, replicability, ease of adoption, and environmental and social impacts.
The main objective of the platform is to valorise the results achieved by the SUREPASTOR Project, supporting knowledge transfer and encouraging stakeholders to adopt and scale sustainable pastoral practices that enhance ecosystem services, resilience to climate change, and rural livelihoods.
The SUREPASTOR platform serves not only as a research dissemination and communication tool, but also as a bridge connecting researchers, farmers, pastoralists, policymakers, and local communities, fostering collaboration to address land degradation, biodiversity loss, and the long-term sustainability of pastoral systems.
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Experimental Virtual Fencing Trials Completed at Coveri Farm
This spring, the project team from DAGRI (UNIFI) carrie..
Virtual fencing and accelerometers trials: experimental design for Tuscany pilot farms
During the latest SUREPASTOR Technical Meeting, held in..
SUREPASTOR contributes to shaping the future of Mediterranean land and water management
In November 2025, SUREPASTOR representatives were invit..
First-Year SUREPASTOR Farm Monitoring Reveals Key Insights into Sheep Farming Profitability and Vulnerability in Morocco’s Chaouia Plain
As part of the ongoing SUREPASTOR project efforts to en..
SUREPASTOR Pilot Farm Spotlight: “Il Pecorino” by Luigi Farina – A Tradition of Excellence in Maremma
Fonteblanda, Tuscany – April 2025
Torrita di Siena, Tuscany – April 2025
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SUREPASTOR Project Meeting – Advancing Sustainable Pastoral Practices in the Mediterranean
📍 Live from Mograne, Tunisia
📅 5 February 2025..
Technologies
SUREPASTOR identifies, tests, and validates innovative digital and analytical technologies to support sustainable and resilient pasture-based systems. These include GPS collars and Virtual Fencing systems to enable adaptive grazing management, GIS-based tools for spatial analysis and decision support, pasture data collection tools for real-time monitoring, and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA) methodologies to evaluate environmental and social impacts.
Together, these technologies contribute to improving resource efficiency, reducing land degradation, and strengthening the sustainability and socio-economic viability of pastoral systems.
Related Projects
This section gathers projects related to SUREPASTOR, including initiatives funded under the PRIMA Programme, in which consortium partners are involved and which address complementary challenges related to sustainable pastoral systems and land management. These projects focus on sustainable grazing practices, climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation, and the prevention of land degradation, developing innovative and nature-based solutions tailored to Mediterranean environments.
Together, these initiatives foster interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange, contributing to more resilient pastoral landscapes, enhanced ecosystem services, and strengthened rural communities across the Mediterranean region.
FORECAST Project
FORECAST: Innovation and resilience for safeguarding agroforestry systems in the Mediterranean Area
Agroforestry systems combine trees, crops, and livestock, offering ecological and socio-
economic benefits but facing climate change challenges. The
FORECAST project develops resilient, science-based
solutions through a
multidisciplinary, international consortium across
Mediterranean countries
MARLAINE Project
MARLAINE: Circular
bioeconomy and
sustainability strategies for the development of the wool supply chain in cross-border territoriesMARLAINE, an Italy–France Maritime project, promotes
circular bioeconomy strategies to revitalise the wool value
chain across cross-border regions, transforming waste into
sustainable resources through innovation, collaboration, and
diversified applications.
MAX-SHEEP Project
MAX-SHEEP: Modelling and
Assessment of circular
scenarios in local conteXts.Applications in the sheep supply chain
This research project, inspired by Industrial Ecology, develops
dynamic models supporting circular solutions, testing the potential circular and bio-economic transition of sheep supply chains in Italian Hybrid Local Economic Systems across southern Italian regions, namely Abruzzo, Sardegna and
Puglia.
MoreMediDiet Project
MoreMediDiet: More on the adoption
MoreMedDiet tackles declining adherence to the Mediterranean
diet by co-creating healthy, appealing local MD recipes, raising awareness of its
benefits, and fostering lasting dietary change with Living Labs,
education, health impact tests and sustainable business
models.
SALAM-MED Project
SALAM-MED
Sustainable Approaches to LAnd and water Management in MEditerranean DrylandsSALAM-MED project involves 15 partners from eight Mediterranean countries and uses six Living Labs to co-create
and test nature-based solutions that restore degraded drylands,
enhance resilience, improve land and water management, engage stakeholders, and
generate sustainable business opportunities.
Scientific Publications
Here you can find the scientific publications related with SUREPASTOR project, showcasing innovative management strategies, tools, and evidence developed to enhance the sustainability and resilience of Mediterranean agro-pastoral systems under climate change, based on pilot farms and partner institutions across four countries.