Results and conclusions from Stakeholder Workshop 2 "Selection and decision on technologies/approaches to be implemented", held in Totana, 26-27 June 2008.

Authors: Jorge López, Joris de Vente, Albert Solé

The workshop methodology was designed and coordinated through Research Theme 3: Potential prevention & mitigation strategies and consisted of three main elements:

• A participatory approach to guide and lead the workshop participants through a process of multi-criteria evaluation of different options which finally results in decision-making on strategies to be field-tested.
• The WOCAT database containing locally applied options as well as options from a number of other contexts.
• 'Facilitator', a Multi Objective Decision Support System (MODSS) software to support the single steps of the evaluation and decision-making process.

Target groups were the same as in the 1st workshop: local stakeholders (land users, representatives of local authorities, local NGOs) and external stakeholders (researchers, development professionals, NGOs, GOs).

As a result of the workshop, the following measures were selected for testing in field experiments.

	Measures	Specifications	Type	Land use
	Reduced tillage of dryland cereals	With disc-plough	agronomic	cropland
	Green manure in ecological agriculture of almonds	Seeding mixture of cereals and Vicia sativa	agronomic	cropland
	Reduced tillage in ecological agriculture of almonds	2 tillages instead of 3-5 per year	agronomic	cropland
	Traditional water harvesting	Earthen wall to divert water from a river bed	structural	cropland
	Organic straw mulch under almonds	To prevent losses by evapotranspiration	agronomic	cropland

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