NBS short description
From 2016 a social movement in Madrid Region (urban+rural)
start promoting virtuous organic circles among neighbourhood and local councils engagement.
There is a substantial leap from mere waste management to
designing virtuous cycles of organic matter to “feed the land
that feeds us”. A major change that will be never done without
a deep socioecological citizen engagement.
Governance of the case
Comunidad de Madrid Region (urban and rural)
Challenges raised during the preparatory meetings
One of the main concerns is that our assessment case comprised two different territories rural and urban areas that are
far from each other.
Is going to be challenging to get the people involved in the
project Madrid Agrocomposta from the beginning in 2016,
but we count on the EBR contacts to reach them.
Geographic area
Comunidad de Madrid Region in both Urban (Madrid City) and
rural area (Torremocha del Jarama - Sierra Norte) are the territories that are involved in this assessment case.
Who owns the land?
In the urban area the land is owned by the municipality of
Madrid.
In the rural territory, the CSA land is owned by the Madrid
Regional government,, ceded by agreement to the rural city
council of Torremocha del Jarama that loan it to the CSA
Vega de Jarama association to work on it. The first agreement began in 2015 and was renewed in 2020 until 2025.
Relevance for the lighthouse
Organic matter management is essential to close the loop and
the virtuar circle that will help to recycle and give value as a
natural fertilizer to organic waste. In this case strengths and
weaknesses of different composting project (urban and rural)
will be assess and will be target to learn about governance,
participation processes, leadership, engagement, community
identity and Social and Solidarity Economy.
The idea of assess a BioRegional system rather than local
isolated process will allow us to confront different ecosystems
(Urban and Rural) and different dimensions of governance (Top
Down Vs Bottom Up processes) as well as to analysed the opportunities and the challenges involved on both experiences.
The learning obtained by the assess of this process will be
a powerful and valuable knowledge to transfer this experience
to the pilot case in Cáceres province (Extremadura Region)
that will be implemented by BioRegional Economies (EBR).
Related projects with synergies
CSA project is related to other CSA initiatives in Spain. The
link with the Popular Solidarity Network is relevant to give to people-families in need the baskets that are not collected on time, or that are donated by members.
Local partners, associations, initiatives and champions engaged
Madrid Regional government (Comunidad de Madrid) /
Madrid municipality / CSA Vega del Jarama / BioRegional
Economies