SEDRD Guest Lecture
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
The Pit, Landscape Architecture building

Sonia Callau-Berenguer, Director of the Agricultural Spaces Unit of the Natural Spaces Department of Barcelona's Provincial Council.  She will be speaking about the Baix Llobregat Agricultural Park in Barcelona, Spain.

The Baix Llobregat Agricultural Park is located in the Llobregat Delta, 10 minutes west of Barcelona. The region has been the main supplier of fresh produce to Barcelona for many centuries. The park was founded in 1998 by a diverse group of organisations seeking to ensure the continuity of sustainable agriculture on Barcelona’s urban fringe in the face of increasing urban pressure. These organisations included the Provincial Council of Barcelona; the County Council of El Baix Llobregat; the Farmer’s Union in Catalonia and the 14 municipalities that have land in the region The park contains 2,930 hectares of high-quality fruit and vegetable crops, in both open air and greenhouse production.