Dehesas de Sierra Morena y políticas agroambientales comunitarias

Abstract

This paper tries to think about the environmental and agricultura european policies applied to the montainous «dehesas» of Sierra Morena. After setting up the regulation principles of the traditional dehesas its breaking up after the economic development stage was analized. The opportunities of reequilibrium for this agrosystem making use of the european community policy were also investigated. The main conclusion of this study was that the european applied measures have not produced, so far, the expected positive effects. The programs that fall most heavily on this system (cattle aids, reforestation programs, compensating indemnifications...) have not been conceived for the dehesas recuperation as a whole. This is why the effect can only be noticiable separately on each element without looking at the repercussions over the system alltogether. Finally, positions are taken towards a wide sense strategy for this agrosystem recuperation based on the ancient wisdom of its inhabitants about this landscape and territory.