To structure comprehensive agricultural rejuvenation programmes adapted to the new economic and social reality of the Catalan countryside

It is essential to structure comprehensive agricultural rejuvenation programmes, both when family agricultural businesses are passed down within the family or sold to third parties, adapted to the new economic and social reality of the Catalan countryside. It is important to organise comprehensive programmes on a supramunicipal scale to address the challenge of agricultural rejuvenation from a comprehensive standpoint, delivering innovative new tools and facilitating the transition to agroecology. These programmes must be defined locally, in coordination with the organisations involved (offices of the Catalan Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, local action groups, county councils, town councils, professional agricultural organisations, agricultural cooperatives, agricultural consultancy organisations, agricultural training academies, etc.) to ensure the diagnosis is accurate and in keeping with reality, making it possible to launch various solutions, such as a land bank, an agricultural test site to enable the incorporation of new farmers, or projects such as support when passing down the family agricultural business. A mentor figure is also suggested in order to promote knowledge transfer linked to farming.