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Depopulation is a problem that I would say is a national one; there has been an imbalance in the country in terms of the movement of people who seek out the cities and, as a result of this, the interior has become depopulated, as in the example of Monchique. The truth is that people have abandoned the countryside for the cities because they started to look for places where there was employment, and most employment is still in the cities. Today, people have a different view of these matters: special attention is being paid to living in rural areas, to …

Desertification and depopulation have been emphasized through all of the country´s interior during the last decades: a scenario that has been getting worse with the times. ECO123 spoke with Alberto Espírito Santo Fernandes. He is a member of the National Fight against Desertification Comission (CNCD) since 2004 and is responsible for the Regional Center against Desertification in the Algarve. The 61 year-old engineer relies on a broad experience in this area after, around 40 years ago, more precisely in 1976, having been the first technician placed in what was the first Natural Reservation created in continental Portugal – the Reserva …