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The 3C urban agriculture programme takes a step back
27-10-2025
The 3C urban agriculture programme, 3C Cultivemos el Clima y la Comunidad (Let's Cultivate the Climate and the Community), has decided to take a step back. Largely financed with funds from Humana from the management of used textiles, it has become present in a dozen municipalities in Catalonia, the Community of Madrid and Andalusia. However, the uncertain situation facing the second-hand sector has forced a rethink of the programme, which will now focus solely on two urban gardens.
The 3C Programme remains active in Rivas-Vaciamadrid and Ciempozuelos, municipalities in the Community of Madrid. Until last month, 3C Cultivemos el Clima y la Comunidad was also present in San Agustín del Guadalix and Daganzo de Arriba (Madrid) and Premià de Dalt, l'Ametlla del Vallès, Palau-solità i Plegamans, and Tordera (province of Barcelona).
‘Much to our regret, we have stopped providing the service in these municipalities, as the situation in the sector does not allow us to continue co-financing this urban agriculture activity,’ say sources from the 3C Programme, adding: "It has been proposed to the respective local councils that they cover the cost of managing their respective gardens, and not just partially, but they have not agreed. We have therefore decided to keep those spaces that are financially sustainable active."
The experience gained in the agriculture and rural development programme in southern countries, through the so-called Farmers Clubs, is the basis for 3C Cultivemos el Clima y la Comunidad, which was launched in 2014 with the aim of enabling users or activists to work in a vegetable garden where they could grow organic produce for their own consumption and also strengthen social relations among themselves.
Pilot tests were carried out in Lliçà d'Amunt (Barcelona) and Leganés (Madrid) with a view to replicating them in other municipalities if they proved successful. They were successful, and those experiences gave rise to a map that has brought together organic gardens in a dozen municipalities in Catalonia, the Community of Madrid and Andalusia.
The 3C Programme remains active in:
- Rivas-Vaciamadrid. There are three gardens in this municipality: one in the Luna neighbourhood, which began in March 2022; a year later, two more were started in Saramago and Paseo de las Provincias. They have the collaboration of the Spanish Commission for Refugee Aid (CEAR) and the Aloe Vera association. In the past, they have collaborated with AMAL-Cañada and the Asociación Mujeres Árabes Luchadoras (Association of Arab Women Fighters).
- Ciempozuelos. This is in the initial phase, with earthworks and preparation of the plots underway, with 33 activists already active and several local associations involved.
