Benefits

In social terms the first and most important positive effect is given by the virtuous processes that are triggered by local people in accepting new technologies and new ways of working the land. Everywhere we have seen active participation in the integrated operations which are essential for the success of the interventions.
In the cases where the work was articulated over several years, joint interaction between the local population and operators has been reached.
The local villages are involved in the care and defense of the new plantations and crops, creating stable improvement and efficiency of the land.
In areas where nomadic pastoralism is practiced, people are seeking new ways of compromise between the villages and the shepardes that meet both the traditional rights of nomads to graze and the need to preserve, at least in part, the new plantations.