LIFE-MONTADO-ADAPT has two objectives: Introducing innovative adaptation technologies in Portuguese and Spanish Montado and Dehesa (M/D) landscapes and communities, through demonstration of sustainable and profitable Integrated Land Use (ILU) systems, which help restore the landscape’s multi-functional character and its contributions to socioeconomic development, environmental services, biodiversity conservation and carbon sequestration; and Maximising the transformational impact of these adaptation technologies and ecosystem services, and securing their replication and upscaling, through a farmer-to-farmer ILU adoption plan, developed commercialisation channels, sustainability and carbon certification, and a marketing plan for regional produce. The project is aligned with the EU Adaptation Strategy objective of improving the knowledge base for better informed decision-making on adaptation, by ensuring that the lessons learned – the methods and tools developed – from the project’s land-use demonstrations become available for replication purposes. The project will contribute to climate change mitigation, through recovery of land areas which are under threat of desertification and forest fires – thus preventing soil loss and related additional greenhouse gas emissions – and through overall biomass increase for improved carbon sequestration.