Department d'Enginyeria Agroalimentària i Biotecnologia Escola Superior d‘Enginyeria Agrícola de Barcelona Luis Maldonado (ed.) COST Action Urban Agriculture Europe: Documentation of 2nd Working Group Meeting Castelldefels (Barcelona), 12-15/3/2013 COST Action Urban Agriculture Europe Documentation of 2nd Working Group Meeting Castelldefels (Barcelona), 12-15/3/2013 Editors: Prof. Arch. Luis Maldonado Escola Superior d'Agricultura de Barcelona (ESAB) Photography: Eduard Caldero (unless otherwise noted) Video stills: Xavier Pageo Illustrations and resources are under the responsability of the individual authors ISBN 978-84-695-8675-4 Organisation WG Meeting Castelldefels (Barcelona): Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC) Department of Agri-Food Engineering and Biotechnology (DEAB) Barcelona School of Agricultural Engineering (ESAB) Prof. Arch. Luis Maldonado (DEAB-UPC) Enric Ibarz (CTT-UPC) Xavier Recasens Eduard Caldero, Ferran Vilà, Olga Gener COST Action Urban Agriculture Europe is chaired by: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Lohrberg Chair of Landscape Architecture Faculty of Architecture RWTH Aachen University e-mail: [email protected] Professor Lionella Scazzosi PaRID - Ricerca e documentazione internazionale per il paessaggio Politecnico di Milano e-mail: [email protected] This publication is supported by COST ESF provides the COST Office through an EC contract COST is supported by the EU RTD Framework programme Luis Maldonado (ed.) COST Action Urban Agriculture Europe: Documentation of 2nd Working Group Meeting Castelldefels (Barcelona), 12-15/3/2013 COST Action UAE: 2nd WG Meeting Barcelona March 2013 Index Introduction 6 COST Action Urban Agriculture Europe: 2nd WGs Meeting 8 Program of the Barcelona Meeting Barcelona Stakeholders on UA Typologies 11 Agriculture in the Barcelona Area: a key issue, multiple landscapes and various solutions Dr. Valerià Paül, Santiago de Compostela University 21 Peri-urban Agriculture in Baix Llobregat‘s District Mr. Martí Sucarrats, Unió de Pagesos (Farmers Trade Union) 25 Agroterritori: the Foundation for the peri-urban Agricultural Areas Dr. Anna Roca, Girona University, Agroterritori Foundation Mrs. Cristina Tous, Agroterritori Foundation 29 Viticulture and Urban Wine Culture Mr. Oriol Guevara, Abicon Wines S.L. 35 The Baix Llobregat Agricultural Park: A Model to Re-connect the City and its Countryside? Mrs. Sònia Callau Berenguer, Baix LLobregat Agrarian Park (Barcelona’s Provincial Council) 47 The Urban Planning and the Management of Rural Undeveloped Land Prof. Dr. Carles Llop, UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona Tech) 55 The Gallecs Experience Mr. Xavier de Pablo, Gallecs Consortium (Generalitat de Catalunya) Prof. Luis Maldonado, UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona Tech) 63 Assessing and Valuing Ecosystem Services Provided by Urban Allotments: case studies in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Laura Calvet-Mir, UAB (Barcelona Autonomous University), COST Action TU 1201 UA 67 Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) in Barcelona Metropolitan Region Dr. Giulia Giacchè, Dr. Attila Toth, COST Action TD 1106 UAE 73 The Retired City: some notes on informal allotment gardens and autonomous urban practices Mr. Pau Faus, artist Working Group 1: Urban Agriculture Definitions and Common Agrarian Policy 77 Notes on Barcelona WG1 meeting Dona Pickard Working Group 2: Urban Governance and Local Policies 81 1 Notes on Barcelona WG2 meeting Mary Corcoran 86 2 Urban Agriculture Europe: governance models and policy contexts Mary Corcoran and Jöelle Salomon-Cavin 90 3 Policy innovation and implementation Mary Corcoran 93 4 Progress of WG2 Mary Corcoran and Jöelle Salomon-Cavin 4 COST Action UAE: 2nd WG Meeting Barcelona March 2013 Working Group 3: Entreprenurial Models of Urban Agriculture 97 1 Notes on Barcelona WG3 meeting Wolf Lorleberg 99 2 Macroeconomic benefits of urban and peri-urban agricultural activities 101 3 Standard questionnaire for case studies for urban agriculture activities Working Group 4: Spatial Visions of Urban Agriculture 107 1 Notes on Barcelona WG4 meeting Lilli Licka and Luis Maldonado 109 2 Charts Report of Barcelona WG4 Deniz Altay, Paola Branduini, Michel Dehaene, Axel Timpe and Attila Tóth 128 3 On WG4 Method Axel Timpe 131 Case Study Visits to Baix Llobregat Agrarian Park 132 Can Amat 132 Can Perol 133 Can Comas 134 The Parc Agrari del Baix Llobregat: an excuse to think about peri-urban agricultural spaces Josep Montasell i Dorda 147 Region Visits to Northern Metropolitan region of Barcelona 148 Torre Codina Community Gardens (Badalona) 149 Alta Alella Cellar (Alella) 151 Gallecs Rural Consortium (Mollet del Vallés) Impressions from Barcelona 153 (h)orthophotography: images captured from Google Maps Pau Faus 158 Cases of study and visits situation map 160 Photo report Barcelona Declaration 162 Barcelona Declaration on Urban Agriculture and the Common Agricultural Policy COST Action TD 1106, WG1 COST Action UAE: 2nd WG Meeting Barcelona March 2013 5 Introduction COST Action Urban Agriculture Europe: showing Urban Agriculture diversity After starting the working process at Aachen, the COST Action 1106 Urban Agriculture Europe (UAE) held its second working group meeting in Castelldefels (Barcelona), 12th-15th of March 2013. The Department of Agri-Food Engineering and Biotechnology (DEAB) and the Barcelona School of Agricultural Engineering (ESAB) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona Tech (UPC) were pleased to host the Action members. The list of attendants included representatives from Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia and Slovakia that recently joined the Action. It was also possible to have representatives Prof. Luis Maldonado from Turkey. UPC Local Organizer After the welcome speech by Lourdes Reig, head of the ESAB, and the introduction speeches by Frank Lohrberg (Chair of the action) and Luis Maldonado (Event Organiser) the meeting begin with the open session of presentations by the stakeholders of the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona. According to the reports of the first Working Group meeting the action had a good start that highlighted the need to develop a previous definition of Urban Agriculture concept that all working groups, from different points of view, educations and national or geographical situations, arose at the same time. To focus the work of the various groups and collaborate and discuss the previous definition to be developed by Working Group 1 was raised searching for an initial group of key characteristics and types through various approaches and working methods specific to the knowledge fields intervening in each of the groups. It was also agreed the drafting of the Barcelona Declaration, a summary document about the potentials of UA for European Policies with a particular emphasize on CAP, to be presented at the end of the second meeting in Barcelona. Hence, the purpose of the open session and of the field trips and visits of the meeting was offering to the attendants a wide range of different types, situations, approaches, opinions and stakeholders that can be found at the hosting region to feed the discussion on Urban Agriculture definition and types and the work to be developed by the working groups. The selection included from farmers or producers as Martí Sucarrats and Oriol Guevara and people involved in the management of two of the three existing agrarian parks of the region: Sonia Callau and Xavier De Pablo; to researchers: Valerià Paül, Cristina Tous and urban researchers and planners as Carles Llop. It included also other realities that are being strongly discussed at the region, as the informal allotment gardens arising along the rivers and transport infrastructures around Barcelona, by the contribution of Pau Faus who lent his voice to that always odd and silent group. Laura Calvet-Mir from the COST Action TU1201 (Urban allotment gardens in European cities: Future, challenges and lessons learned) was invited to foster the cooperation between the two Actions but also to clarify the subject of work of each of them and avoid possible overlaps. Finally, the STSMs Giulia Giacchè and Attila Tóth explained their work giving an outer vision from the region case of study. In the same sense, the visit to two different companies (that can be understood also as two different models) at the Baix Llobregat Agraian Park, to its offices and the trip to Badalona, Alella and Mollet samples fulfilled the bottom-up approach including social, economic and natural issues for further discussions. Let me stand out that both visits included ‘eating the parks’ as a simple and pleasant way of summarizing the complex and multiple benefits for cities and its citizens that Urban Agriculture provides. 6 COST Action UAE: 2nd WG Meeting Barcelona March 2013 Introduction The working process of the groups and the final summary of results at the end of the meeting proceed as that followed at Aachen. Throughout the days of the meeting the draft of the Barcelona Declaration remained exposed so meeting attendees could leave the comments they deemed appropriate. This volume includes the final version submitted to Brussels and summarizes the main issues of the meeting. Acknowledgments I want to express my sincere gratitude to all those who contributed for the organization of the meeting or attended to it: to the speakers for their contribution to the open session and their later work; to Joan Amat and Laia Mateu for hosting the Action and sharing their experience with us during the visit to their enterprises