Introduction
This document constitutes the Terra Agora Foundation (FTA) Action Plan
for the 2026 financial year, setting out the strategic priorities, operational targets,
team structure and financial resources required for its implementation.
This plan is framed by the 2026–2030 Strategic Plan, approved by the Board
of Directors in October 2025.
2025 was a year of strategic consolidation, capacity building and preparation
for growth. In 2025, FTA restructured its governing bodies,
expanded the executive team, developed the Strategic Plan
2026–2030, implemented essential operational systems and began
structuring the three capacity-building programmes.
2026 marks the year in which the Terra Agora Foundation fully launches itself across the country. It is the
year in which we launch programmes, scale up the network of stewards and begin to
transform Portugal’s relationship with the land.
Context
Mission: To transform our relationship as landowners with the land into one of
perpetual regeneration under the leadership of local stewards.
Vision: A world where the Earth belongs only to itself.
Purpose: To cultivate a new relationship with the Earth: from owners to guardians.
Long-term ecological stewardship: The Terra Agora Foundation assumes the role of
institutional guardian of strategic territorial assets, ensuring that land
donated or placed under protection remains dedicated to ecological regeneration
in perpetuity. In this model, the FTA guarantees the ecological integrity and
continuity of the land’s regenerative purpose, whilst local Guardian Entities
— collectives rooted in the territory — design and implement plans for
socio-ecological regeneration and associated regenerative economic activities.
In this way, the Foundation cares for the land without assuming control, protecting the
ecological purpose of the land whilst strengthening the autonomy and responsibility of the
communities that regenerate it.
The 2026–2030 Strategic Plan sets out six priorities that guide all of the
FTA’s actions during this period. For 2026, the first year of implementation, these priorities
translate into concrete actions at different stages of maturity:
Strategic Priority Focus in 2026 Horizon
Build a network of
protected lands and guardians
Formalise processes; finalise 3
land donations; begin active scouting
Short term
Support Idanha-a-Vida as a
demonstration model
Finalise the Guardian Agreement and 7-Generation
Vision by Q3 2026
Short term
Launch 3
training programmes
2 editions of the Academy; 1 Lab initiative; 1
Network initiative
Short term
Establish a sustainable
revenue model
Build a Circle of Friends (≥250
members); diversify sources
Short/Medium
Position FTA as a
national benchmark
10 institutional partnerships;
national media presence
Medium term
Achieve Public Benefit
Status
Preparation of application
for 2027
Medium term
Key Targets of the Strategic Plan (2026–2030)
The quantifiable targets of the Strategic Plan for the full period include the
approval of 25 strategic guardian entities, the establishment of a
of 10 guilds, the creation of a €300k Endowment Fund for Guardians
and the establishment of a Land Investment Fund with an initial target of
€1m. In 2026, the focus will be on laying the foundations for each of these goals.
This work progressively positions the Terra Agora Foundation as an
emerging player in ecological regeneration and the protection of rural landscapes in Portugal,
contributing to the restoration of ecosystems, the revitalisation of
rural communities and the development of new models of territorial stewardship
aligned with national and European objectives for the restoration of
nature.
Alignment with European ecological restoration policies
The work of the Terra Agora Foundation is also aligned with the
emerging guidelines of European environmental policy, namely with the
objectives of the European Nature Restoration Regulation and the
European Union Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, which call for the restoration of
degraded ecosystems and the strengthening of landscape resilience.
By promoting models of territorial guardianship, the FTA contributes to the protection and
regeneration of strategic ecological assets, creating conditions for
local communities — organised into Guardian Entities — to develop
regenerative practices that restore soils, biodiversity and water cycles,
whilst strengthening the social and economic vitality of rural areas.
Introduction
This document constitutes the Terra Agora Foundation (FTA) Action Plan for the 2026 financial year, setting out the strategic priorities, operational targets,
team structure and financial resources required for its implementation.
This plan is framed by the 2026–2030 Strategic Plan, approved by the Board of Directors in October 2025.
2025 was a year of strategic consolidation, capacity building and preparation for growth. In 2025, FTA restructured its governing bodies, expanded the executive team, developed the Strategic Plan 2026–2030, implemented essential operational systems and began structuring the three capacity-building programmes.
2026 marks the year in which the Terra Agora Foundation fully reveals itself to the country. It is the year in which we launch programmes, scale up the network of guardians and begin to transform Portugal’s relationship with the land.
Context
Mission: To transform our relationship as landowners with the land into one of
perpetual regeneration under the leadership of local guardians.
Vision: A world where the Earth belongs only to itself.
Purpose: To cultivate a new relationship with the Earth: from owners to guardians.
Long-term ecological stewardship: The Terra Agora Foundation assumes the role of institutional guardian of strategic territorial assets, ensuring that land
donated or placed under protection remains dedicated to ecological regeneration in perpetuity. In this model, the FTA guarantees the ecological integrity and
continuity of the land’s regenerative purpose, whilst local Guardian Entities— collectives rooted in the territory — design and implement plans for socio-ecological regeneration and associated regenerative economic activities. In this way, the Foundation cares for the land without assuming control, protecting the ecological purpose of the land whilst strengthening the autonomy and responsibility of the communities that regenerate it.
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