2.1. Assessment of environmental impacts, including quantification of carbon footprint, associated with commercial products of the dehesa/montado

The dehesa/montado is the source of a wide range of commercial products: beef, sheep, pig, goat, fighting bull or equine meat, fish (tench), bee products (honey, pollen, wax), wild products for human food (game meats, fungus and mushrooms, asparagus, acorns), aromatic and medicinal plants, processed meat products or sausages, textile products (wool, leather), products derived from cork, biomass (wood, coal), tourist products (photo safaris, bird watching), etc. In many of these products the organoleptic and healthy value is well recognized, but the environmental values associated with their production have never been evaluated. In many of these products the organoleptic and healthy value is well-known but the environmental values associated with their production have never been assessed.

In recent years an extensive discipline has been developed that formalises procedures for the evaluation of the environmental impacts (positive and negative) associated to different products. Life-cycle assessment includes (i) inventory of energy and materials consumed and generated; (ii) assessment of the potential impacts of energy and materials consumed and by-products generated; (iii) interpretation of the results to help consumers to make decisions based on the information. Among the assessments that have received the most attention is the analysis of the carbon footprint, which seeks to quantify the carbon balance (difference between carbon emission and sequestration) derived from the production of each unit of the product (including the agrosystem in which it occurs).

The market value of the products tends progressively to internalise environmental impacts and values associated with them and increasingly more commercial brands and consumers demand information. Consumers and producers drive the market and the price of its products. Those products associated with greater public environmental services (positive) and lower environmental impacts will be able to receive better prices and incorporate their added value in their price.

A list of products and producers will be selected (as a priority linked to the members) and with greater commercial scope or that are new in both the field phase and in the industrial processing phase.

	1. Regulatory framework of the dehesa/montado
	1.1 Creation of a competent Committee to work on the regulatory framework adapted to current needs and characteristics of dehesas and montados.
	1.2 Analysis of the regulatory framework that affects both dehesas and montados
	1.3 Tools for the effective implementation of a participatory process throughout the Project
	2. Environmental valorisation of the dehesa/montado
	2.1. Assessment of environmental impacts, including quantification of carbon footprint, associated with commercial products of the dehesa/montado
	2.2 Valorisation of the dehesa/montado habitat through natural heritage (RED Natura 2000) and cultural heritage (formulating an UNESCO candidacy)
	2.3 Ecosystem services of the Dehesa (economic and social valorisation...)
	3. Identification and transfer of innovation for production and product management
	3.1 Modernisation/Adaptation of productive processes (identification of good practices, knowledge transfer and innovation)
	3.2 Production and promotion of products and services emerging from the dehesa
	3.3 Cooperation and Professionalisation in the dehesa/montado
	4. Valorisation and marketing
	4.1 Quantification of added value of products and services of the dehesa
	4.2 Marketing and commercialisation of products and services from the Dehesa
	4.3 Training for consumers and producers

Activities

2.1. Assessment of environmental impacts, including quantification of carbon footprint, associated with commercial products of the dehesa/montado