The Regional Secretary for Energy, Environment and Tourism, Marta Guerreiro, participates in the 4th ITLA World Congress - Terraced Territories to take place on La Gomera, Canary Islands, next Tuesday, March 19, an event focused on the specificities of Macaronesian archipelagos: Canary Islands, Azores, Madeira and Cape Verde.
This edition will address the theme of landscape construction, the ways of making it habitable and its integration into the living conditions of the population.
Promoted by ITLA - International Terraced Landscapes Alliance, the international meeting is mainly focused on terraced landscapes - an expression of the tangible and intangible culture of the peoples inhabiting them - and how this knowledge was passed on from generation to generation throughout history.
With the participation of the Regional Government in this event, we intend to highlight the importance of landscape in the archipelago's identity and the strategy carried out in recent years, which acknowledges the need for a strong management in landscape policies.
The participation of the Azores in meetings such as this one is of the utmost importance as it promotes a global and shared reflection among archipelagos with similar features, creating synergies from the specific areas addressed by the congress.
The meeting aims to define the best ways to recover abandoned agricultural land under the European regulatory frameworks, to involve production sectors and to develop synergies between the public and private sectors for the management of abandoned areas.