Expanded second edition of When we were sustainable. Learning from Barbanza: shaping our future from our roots

This publication gathers the conclusions of the first three years of work of the Barbanza Ecosocial Lab, a project created to learn about and disseminate the activities and processes that made rural communities sustainable and self-sufficient in the past and to evaluate which one of these can be replicated and adapted to the current context in order to promote the reactivation and stop the abandonment of these areas.

In 2021, after a year of activity in the Barbanza Ecosocial Laboratory, was published When we were sustainable as the result of the first phase of the Lab’s work, which focused on research into local knowledge and the historical management of the territory.

The second phase of the Barbanza Ecosocial Laboratory began with the implementation of the actions that were drawn from the first phases’ research, through the announcement of an open call for the promotion of sustainable and innovative initiatives -called seed projects- in the Barbanza peninsula.

Given the huge interest generated by the publication in its first edition, in 2023 we are launching a second, expanded edition that also includes the experience of the first three seed projects of the Barbanza Ecosocial Lab and sets out a roadmap for its future.