This clip features the testimony by Luigi Fabbrini, a farmer who tills the land in Tuscany, Italy. It brings the spotlight on his use of cultivating tree crops in close proximity to herbaceous crops. This agroforestry practice is one of the agro-ecological practices promoted by Mara-Mediterra.

Watch how he explains how and why he is reintroducing the traditional agricultural practice of growing tree crops in close proximity to herbaceous crops. In this instance he is cultivating olive trees along with clover and barley as illustrated in the images below.

His testimony comes with subtitles in either English, French, Arabic, Greek or Turkish, which are the working languages in Mara-Mediterra’s hotspots of land and water degradation.

The testimonial forms part of an initial set of real-life stories of working with Nature-based Solutions by farmers in Italy, Greece and Malta.