The Quípar Valley is a 30,000-hectare semi-arid landscape in northwest Murcia, Spain. Decades of agricultural overexploitation and rural depopulation have left the land degraded and its communities fragmented. Since 2023, Regeneration Academy has been building the conditions for a 30-year regeneration — working with farmers, artists, scientists and local institutions to restore soil, water, biodiversity and cultural life. The project operates through a Territorial Agreement signed by 13 organisations, and has already impacted 1,600 hectares, planted 2,600 native trees, and involved 200 people from the valley.
A programme accompanying farmers in the Alto Quípar Valley through a progressive process of soil and water restoration — adapting each intervention to the farm’s specific conditions, the farmer’s knowledge, and the realities of dryland agriculture in a semi-arid landscape.
The Valley has the landscapes, the stories, and the people — but decades of rural depopulation have hollowed out its cultural life. This programme rebuilds it from the inside: bringing artists to live and work in the territory, reviving the memory of its villages, and creating events that draw people in from outside — new faces, new ideas, new energy.
