The project aims to build a strong peer to peer learning and support community for pastoralists, cheesemakers and their wider networks, while strengthening partner organisations’ capacity to design innovative learning spaces and creating clear educational pathways into economically and socially sustainable pastoralist livelihoods for young people. For ALPA, this is directly beneficial as it reinforces its mission of agroecology, land stewardship and bioregional regeneration by strengthening pastoral value chains, supporting future generations of land based practitioners and increasing public recognition of extensive, climate resilient farming systems.

The project transdisciplinary and systemic approach and addresses the problems and challenges of agro-food systems in Europe and beyond. It is based on existing and new Agroecology Living Labs (ALL) with multi-actors and focuses on agroecological practices of diversification in farming and food systems to evaluate their impact on ecosystem services at the landscape level as well as evaluate and develop governance approaches and policies for their sustainable upscaling to the territorial level

The SPADES (Spatial Planning And DEsign with Soils) project aims to integrate soil health considerations into spatial planning and design processes to promote sustainable land management. The project focuses on enhancing soil ecosystem services, mitigating land degradation, and supporting EU goals like Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) and No Net Land Take by 2050.

ALPA supports the work of its board member, Szocs Boruss Miklos Attila during his Bertha Foundation Fellowship year in 2025 that focuses on empowering rural communities in Tara Calatei/Kalotaszeg and advocating towards the transformation of our bioregional food system in response to climate and biodiversity crises.

ALPA has become the beneficiary of an “Idea Accelerator” through the support of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture and Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) for Pilot Farms in the bioregion of Tara Calatei/Kalotaszeg.

ALPA’s general strategy and actions in 2024-2025 are significantly supported by the Fred Foundation and the Forest Peace Foundation, whose financial and strategic contributions help strengthen ALPA’s efforts in regenerative land stewardship, biodiversity conservation, and rural regeneration across the region.

ALPA’s strategy and actions in securing land and human capacity is supported through the generous donations from the Fredrick Mulder Foundation.