BOOKLET http://med.forestweek.org MEDITERRANEAN FOREST WEEK
IV MFW17 - 20 March 2015 IV S FM Barcelona, Spain
Improving livelihoods: the role of Mediterranean forest value chains in a green economy
IV MFW 1 IV MFW TABLE OF CONTENTS
MEDITERRANEAN FOREST WEEK 04 Message from the host 47 Session 2 06 Organizing Committee Tools and Initiatives for Forest Development
07 Location map (transport, restaurants) 51 Session 3 Climate Financing Instruments in Mediter- 10 Background and objectives ranean landscapes: How to increase the mobilization of Climate Financing Instruments 13 Tuesday 17 to support programs and/or projects in forested Mediterranean landscapes 14 Session 1 Follow up of the Tlemcen Declaration 56 Session 4 Bilateral/multilateral donors: How to increase 17 Session 2 the mobilization of financial resources and Water and Forests: An integrated how to build a better coordination for management crucial to cope with global development and implementation of sub- changes in the Mediterranean regional and intersectoral programs and/or projects in forested Mediterranean landscapes 21 Session 3 Energy and Forests: What role for forest 59 Session 5 biomass in the Mediterranean energy mix? Education & training
24 Side Events 64 Poster Session
29 Wednesday 18
30 Field Trip 1 (CPF)
31 Field Trip 2 (DIBA)
32 Session 1 Tourism and Forests: how to promote and optimize their mutual development?
35 Session 2 Wealth from forests: Innovative approaches to sustainable exploitation and valorisation of forest products
39 Side Events
43 Thursday 19
44 Session 1 Entrepreneurship in Mediterranean land- scapes: Inspiring cases and success stories of entrepreneurship based on Mediterranean forests’ products and services
2 BOOKLET IV MFW 3 MESSAGE FROM THE HOST
In the Kingdom of Spain we are aware that most of our territory Catalonia is a forested Mediterranean region where forests cover is Mediterranean, due to its climate as well as its culture and over 60% of the whole territory and form a true green infrastructure. personality. Many Spanish regions, including Catalonia, have For our society, Mediterranean forests are a source of wealth and shaped throughout a very long history a solid relationship with the jobs, while playing at the same time a crucial environmental role. other Mediterranean peoples, establishing cultural and commercial They are the result of a fragile equilibrium between the action of connections with them from the dawn of History. nature and that of humans, as is the whole Mediterranean region. If we want to guarantee their sustainability and preserve them for People from Spanish Mediterranean regions are willing to manage future generations, we must know how to manage them and search their forests in a sustainable way, as they are benefiting not only for their economic, social and environmental profitability. Forest from traditionally marketed goods such as timber, firewood, multifunctionality and entrepreneurship are key elements of the mushrooms, fruits, resin, corck and plants, but also from a great 21st century forest management. Forest management ensures the range of environmenal services, crucial for the economic and social sustainability of our Mediterranean rural areas and forests, and this development of rural areas, such as the regulation of water cycles, is why we decided to dedicate this Fourth Mediterranean Forest both in quality and quantity, of transcendental importance due to Week to the socio-economic wealth that forests can generate the Mediterranean rain regime, the fight against soil erosion and through the goods and services they provide. In order to take desertification, the enormous biological diversity of these areas, or advantage of the potential of our forests, managers need to have also the capture of greenhouse gases, a contribution to mitigating a strong knowledge base and to support innovation for developing climate change, a key feature in these limit zones. new goods and services. We must build solid links between forest Isabel Josep Maria owners and managers, the forest primary and secondary processing As the problems faced by Mediterranean forests are, by their García Tejerina Pelegrí i Aixut industries, technological innovation, and end-users of the products, own nature, transboundary, we need to co-operate with other Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Agriculture, in order to establish a production chain based on added value and Mediterranean countries to solve our forests’ main challenge: the Food and Environment Livestock, Fisheries, Food, sustainability. In this sense, the Fourth Mediterranean Forest Week is economic sustainability, one of the essential basic pillars. Therefore, Spain and the Environment of an excellent example of mainstreaming, overcoming many barriers Spain has made a step ahead taking over the organisation of this 4th Catalonia in the quest for shared goals amongst managers, researchers, civil Mediterranean Forest Week, a great opportunity to strengthen this society and governments. co-operation basis. Several Catalonian institutions are involved in international And the venue that has been chosen is Barcelona, a city that has cooperation and lead forest research in southern Europe. For this always looked at the Mediterranean Sea and has been the portal by reason, we are particularly proud to host this Fourth Mediterranean which Spain has reached out that direction. With a common effort of Forest Week in Barcelona, gate to the Mediterranean, in a place all Administrations, we offer you all a forum in which all alternatives as emblematic as the historical Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant indicating solutions to our common problems can be debated. Pau Art Nouveau Site, headquarters of Hub Forestal Internacional (International Forest Platform), and whose vocation is to promote I therefore wish all participants my most warm welcome to Spain, openness and encounters between cultures, ideas and viewpoints. looking forward to be all in Barcelona in March. Welcome to Catalonia!
4 BOOKLET IV MFW 5 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
AIFM - International Association for Mediterranean Forests CONFERENCE MAP
CTFC - Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia
EFIMED - Mediterranean Regional Office of the European Forest Institute
FAO Committee on Mediterranean Forestry Questions - Silva Mediterranea
Generalitat de Catalunya
GIZ - German agency for international cooperation
MMFN - Mediterranean Model Forest Network
Plan Bleu - UNEP-MAP- Regional Activity Center
Algeria - Ministry of Agriculture
MAGRAMA - Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment of Spain
Contributors
CPF - Centre de la Propietat Forestal
Remufor - Spanish Network of Forest Towns
DIBA - Provincial Council of Barcelona
COSE - Confederation of Forest Owners of Spain
UDL - University of Lleida
SANT PAU - Recinte Modernista Barcelona
SPONSORS
CEPF - Confederation of European Forest Owners
IUFRO - International Union of Forest Research Organizations Metro: L5 Sant Pau /Dos de Maig - L4 Guinardó/Hospital de Sant Pau Oller - Industrial company fabricating cork stoppers M
Amorim - World main cork producer Bus: H8, 19, 20, 45, 47, 50, 51, 92, 117 ARCMED - Association of Mediterranean Forest Owners
FFEM - French Global Environment Facility
MSC - Master of Science in European Forestry Restaurants: See the map to find restaurants close by
MAAF - French Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood and Forest
6 BOOKLET IV MFW 7 PROGRAM AND MEETINGS LOCATION Monday 16 March Tuesday 17 March Wednesday 18 March Thursday 19 March Friday 20 March 8:00 - 9:15 MH Registration 8:00 - 10:45 9:15 - 9:45 FC PG + FC 9:00 - 10:45 Climate finance 9:00 - 10:45 Welcome PG instruments in R3/4+2 9:15 - 10:45 Entrepreneurship in 9:45 - 10:30 Mediterranean Forest education & PG PG + FC Mediterranean landscapes training High-level segment KN1: Innovation in the Mediterranean forest landscapes sector 7:30 - 14:30 7:30 - 14:30 10:45 - 11:00 10:30 - 11:15 Sant Pau Sant Pau Coffee break H 10:45 - 11:15 Field Trip 1 Field Trip 2 H Coffee break + Posters 11:00 -11:30 Montnegre Montseny Coffee break + Posters PG 11:15 - 13:00 *Press conference 11:15 - 13:00 FC 11:15 - 13:00 11:15 - 13:00 11:30 - 13:00 PG Climate finance R3/4+2 PG + FC PG Tools & initiatives for instruments in Forest education & Follow up of the Tlemcen Declaration Ceremony of the forest development Mediterranean training International Day of landscapes Forests 13:00 - 14:30 13:00 - 14:30 H H Lunch + Posters Lunch + Posters
14:30 - 16:30 Other events open to participants: 14:30 - 16:30 14:30 - 16:30 14:30 - 16:30 14:30 - 16:30 PG + FC PG FC PG FC Bilateral / Multilateral donors: Tuesday 17 March Water & forests Energy & forests Tourism & forests Forest products Mobilizing financial resources 9:00 - 18:00 (R3/4+2): COST meeting: Mediterranean urban forests for improving the environment and the quality of life 16:30 - 16:45 16:30 - 16:45 in our cities 16:30 - 17:00 H H H Coffee break + Posters Coffee break + Posters Wednesday 18 March Coffee break + Posters 9:00 - 14:00 (R3/4+2): COST meeting: Mediterranean urban 16:45 - 18:00 forests for improving the environment and the quality of life 16:45 - 18:00 in our cities - Ecological value, conservation and protected 17:00 - 18:00 areas (PG) - Gender and forestry (FC) Friday 20 March - Triangular cooperation Morocco-Costa Rica- - Revision of the MSSD (PG) PG + FC Germany (FC) - Future projects (Ra+1) Bilateral / Multilateral donors: 9:00 - 17:00 (A1): MEDFORVAL meeting - Mediterranean bioeconomy (Ra+1) - Engaging communities in wildfire risk Mobilizing financial resources 17:00 - 19:00 - Forestry in Turkey for sustainable mitigation (Rb+1) Other events by invitation: MH development (Rb+1)
Registration 18:00 - 18:15 Monday 16 March 18:00 - 18:30 18:00 - 18:30 PG + FC PG + FC PG + FC 14:30 - 19:00 (DiM): Meeting of EU Expert Group on forest Poster award ceremony Synthesis Synthesis fires 18:15 - 18:45 14:00 - 19:00 (Q): Silva mediterranea WG7 meeting - Urban 18:30 - 19:30 PG + FC Conclusions and peri-urban forestry H Wine & olive oil tasting Tuesday 17 March 20:30 - 23:30 GALA DINNER 9:00 - 13:00 (DiM): Meeting of EU Expert Group on forest Plenary sessions fires Paralell sessions Side-events Wednesday 18 March Fiield trips * Invitation only 10:00 - 14:00 (Q): Meeting of the presidents of forest ROOMS owners federations from Southern Europe MH Main Hall (CEPF/ARCMED) PG Room Pau Gil FC Room Francesc Cambó 16:30 - 18:30 (R3-4+2): Silva Mediterranea extraordinary H Room Hypostyle session Ra+1 Room a floor 1 Rb+1 Room b floor 1 Saturday 21 March R3/4+2 Rooms 3 and 4 floor 2 DiM Room Domènech i Montaner 9:00 (place to be determined): AIFM General assembly Q Room Quercus A1 Room A1
8 BOOKLET IV MFW 9 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES INNOVATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Forests and other woodlands are an integral part of Mediterranean landscapes. They are “Improving livelihoods: Abstract a source of energy, water, food, tourism and the role of Mediterranean many other goods and services as well as forest value chains Mediterranean forests are resilient and other sources of income. The value chains of in a green economy” several goods and services provided by these complex socio-ecosystems and an ecosystems play a key role in improving the invaluable green infrastructure of enormous quality of life of people in the Mediterranean value for our societies. They are a hotspot of region. The objectives of the Fourth Mediterranean biodiversity and cultural heritage and provide Forest Week (IV MFW) are the following: critical ecosystem services in relation to the Even if global changes (e.g. changes in water cycle and water supply, the protection societies, lifestyles and climate) underway • Strengthen exchanges and synergies of soil and carbon sequestration. in the Mediterranean region have a negative between stakeholders involved in the impact on these ecosystems (e.g. causing integrated management of Mediterranean Mediterranean forests also support very forest degradation, loss of biodiversity, forests and other woodlands; important value chains, not necessarily increased fire hazards, water scarcity based in the production of biomass. The and desertification), forest goods and • Follow up on the Tlemcen Declaration Mediterranean basin hosts 30% of the world services should be considered as a relevant and implementation of the Strategic tourism and part of it is linked to forests. opportunity to promote the development of a Framework on Mediterranean Forests Most of the drinking water is produced in green economy based on sustainable forest (SFMF): policy orientations for integrated forested Mediterranean basins. Hunting and management in the Mediterranean region. In management of forest ecosystems in the mushroom picking are important components order to meet these challenges: Mediterranean landscapes; of the rural economy in large areas.
• Political and administrative authorities • Promote innovation, cross-sectoral The role that Mediterranean forests are at national, regional and local levels as cooperation and the development of the playing in many crucial societal challenges well as stakeholders and civil society, as economy (including green economy and is, thus, difficult to overestimate. However, a whole, have to adapt their strategies bioeconomy) to increase resilience of markets for Mediterranean forest goods and and regulatory frameworks to promote forested ecosystems; services are week. This session will make a sustainable value chains that contribute brief review of the most crucial societal that to employment generation and to the • Involve key value chain stakeholders are affecting forestry in the Mediterranean and development of a green economy in the of goods and services provided by will highlight how societies are responding Mediterranean; Mediterranean forest ecosystems (e.g. with innovative approaches. This with a from the agriculture, water, energy, special focus on a critical question: It is • Forest scientists and managers are biodiversity conservation and tourism possible to generate revenue streams and to expected to develop and adapt sectors) in order to incorporate their create green jobs and wealth based on the silvicultural practices taking into account expectations as well as cross-sectoral products and services that Mediterranean the diversity and use of forest goods issues into National Forest Programmes; forests provide? and services as well as the influence of socioeconomic and climate changes, • Strengthen the link between specialists in order to improve the quality of life of and decision-makers to establish Contacts Mediterranean populations. a common vision of the future of development and management of EFIMED After the success of the previous Mediterranean forests and woodlands; Mr. Inazio Martinez de Arano Mediterranean Forest Weeks, the Spanish authorities welcome this fourth edition • Prepare a presentation of the results of the [email protected] in Barcelona focusing on the following IV MFW for the World Forestry Congress issue: “Improving livelihoods: the role of to be held in Durban in September 2015. Mediterranean forest value chains in a green economy”.
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David Alejandro SOLANO GRIMA Forest engineer specialized in international cooperation with master studies in Tropical and Mediterranean rural forestry from ENGREF, France, and postgraduate in SME, International Business and Emerging Markets, UB, Spain. Mr. Solano has 16 years experience in international cooperation, related to forests and rural development, designing and coordinating projects and strategies, coordinating work teams, establishing and monitoring relationships with multicultural partners TUESDAY and international organizations. He started in 2000 the internationalization of CTFC in interregional projects with European partners. Since 2005 he is mainly focused on international cooperation outside Europe (Mediterranean, African and American partners). He is currently the International Affairs Director at CTFC. IV S FM
Pilar VALBUENA Her education, training and working background of the last thirteen years is mainly forestry but in the last seven years her work experience has complemented this with her professional experience in the field of the International Cooperation as responsible for Knowledge Management and Communications for the International Cooperation Area of the Cesefor Foundation, which included being responsible for communications and focal point of the Mediterranean Model Forest Network. She is part of the Steering Committee of the Forest Communicators Network for the Mediterranean Region and the Near East. Currently she works as communications international consultant for giz in the context of the CPMF.
Fabrice GOURIVEAU is an agro-ecologist specialized in rural socioeconomics, biodiversity conservation and hydrology. He holds a PhD in Ecology and natural resource management (University of Edinburgh), a MSc. in Agriculture Sciences, Food Security and Natural Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (University of Hohenheim) and an agricultural engineering degree (ENESAD, France). He joined the Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia in 2009 as a member of the ECOFUN laboratory and manager of the EU INTERREG IV-A project FLUXPYR (Climate change in the Pyrenees), and he is currently the coordinator of the International Cooperation Team. He is involved in the design, implementation and monitoring of several capacity-building and research projects in the fields of agriculture and food security, forestry/agro- forestry, biodiversity conservation, participatory management of natural resources, valuation and valorization of ecosystem goods and services, and vocational training. He currently contributes to the revision of the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development (MSSD), in the Working Group on natural resources, rural development and food.
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2. Promoting the resilience of these forest Follow up of the Tlemcen ecosystems and other wooded lands in the 3) Enhancing capacity of stakeholders and Declaration Mediterranean to face global changes; the resources mobilization necessary for the sustainable management of forest ecosystems 3. Enhancing capacity of stakeholders and and other wooded lands in the Mediterranean Organization: FAO the resources mobilization necessary for through the implementation of the following the sustainable management of forest strategic lines: Chair: ecosystems and other wooded lands in the Mr. Mohamed Seghir Noual Mediterranean. • Develop knowledge, training and DGF Algeria communication on Mediterranean forests; Each of the three main objectives propose the Rapporteur: implementation of three key strategic lines with • Reinforce international cooperation on Mr. Christophe BESACIER expected results and concrete recommendations Mediterranean forests; FAO addressed to decision makers for the sustainable management of forest ecosystems and other • Adapt existing financing schemes and Facilitator: wooded lands in the Mediterranean: develop innovative mechanisms to support Ms. Christine FARCY implementation of forest policies and University of Louvain 1) Developing and promoting goods and services programs on Mediterranean forests. provided by forest ecosystems and other Background wooded lands in the Mediterranean through Objectives implementation of the following strategic lines: The Third Mediterranean Forest Week (III MFW) The purpose of this session entitled “Follow • Improve sustainable production of goods held in Tlemcen (Algeria) from 17 to 21 March up of the Tlemcen Declaration” is to analyze and services by Mediterranean forests; 2013 was particularly important in the history of the level of implementation of the Tlemcen Mediterranean Forests for the adoption of the Declaration and of the several expected • Enhance the role of Mediterranean forests in “Tlemcen Declaration” and the presentation of results of the “Strategic Framework on rural development; the document entitled “Strategic Framework on Mediterranean Forests” in Mediterranean Mediterranean Forests: policy orientations for countries (intersectoral, cooperation, financing • Promote forest governance and land tenure integrated management of forest ecosystems in mechanisms instruments, innovation in the reform in Mediterranean landscapes. Mediterranean landscapes” (SFMF). forest sector, etc). 2) Promoting resilience of forest ecosystems Under the patronage of the Minister of Agriculture One of the key results of this session should and other wooded lands in the Mediterranean to of Algeria, more than 300 participants from 15 be to appreciate: how dynamic/programs/ face global changes through the implementation countries accepted the Tlemcen declaration, a policies under review or implementation in of the following strategic lines: two-page paper which reflects the strong political the countries around the Mediterranean are support that the Mediterranean countries are in line with the guidelines of the ‘Strategic • Promote wildfire prevention by integrating committing to the sustainable development of Framework on Mediterranean Forests’ and the the increasing risks associated to ongoing forests, and devoted themselves to implement recommendations of the Declaration of Tlemcen climate change in the Mediterranean; the recommendations of the “Strategic Framework on Mediterranean Forests”, which • Manage forest genetic resources and reflect the need for a more intense regional Contact biodiversity to enhance adaptation of forest cooperation in the Mediterranean. The Strategic ecosystems and other wooded lands to Framework on Mediterranean Forests is a climate change in the Mediterranean; FAO document composed by a rationale and nine strategic lines outlining the threats for the forests Mr. Christophe BESACIER • Restore degraded Mediterranean forest and addressing the problems and enormous [email protected] landscapes. challenges of the future.
The SFMF has three main objectives: “Developing and promoting goods and services provided by forest 1. Developing and promoting goods and services provided by forest ecosystems and ecosystems and other wooded other wooded lands in the Mediterranean lands in the Mediterranean” region;
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SESSION 2 Mohamed Seghir NOUAL, is an Agricultural Engineer, specialized in forest sciences, from the Institute of Agriculture Technology in Mostaganem (Algeria). He holds Water and Forest: consumption. South Africa and Australia have a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Landscape, Society An integrated management crucial already pioneered regulations in this respect. and Environment management from the University Joseph to cope with global changes in the On the other hand, forests can make a Fourier in Grenoble and a Master’s degree in Forest Mediterranean significant contribution to water quality. The Sciences from the National School of Rural Engineering, shadow cast by riparian tress helps maintaining Water and Forests (ENGREF) in Montpellier (France). cooler water temperatures and higher oxygen From 1978 to 1989 he was the responsible of the Forest contents. Minimization of soil erosion reduces Organization: Plan Bleu, EFIMED Department in Mostaganem and Tizi-Ouzu (Algeria). the flux of sediment into in water bodies, while After, he has held several posts of responsibility such us well-developed root systems help filtering Rapporteur: General Director of the Eastern Regional Office of Forest nutrients and some pollutants. In managed Mr. Davide PetTenella Development, Project Officer on Rural development in a forests, these ecosystems services depend University of Padova project co-funded by the World Bank, Inspector-General on adequate forest management. Indeed, of Forests and Director of Protection of Flora and Fauna. inadequate timber harvesting or extraction, or Facilitator: Currently, he is the Director General of Forests at the roads and stream crossings with forest tractors, Ms. Nelly Bourlion Algerian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. may change dissolved and chemical particulate Plan Bleu concentrations and fluxes in water bodies, leading for instance to increased sediment inputs in the water. Moreover, there is a risk of oil Christine FARCY has a PhD in forestry and is senior Background pollution during forest works using tractors and researcher and invited lecturer at the University of Louvain other machines. (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium). She is teaching forest The Mediterranean region is very diverse both planning and international forest policy. She is chairing in terms of forest cover and water resources. While forests are well known to play an important an interdisciplinary research group composed by social After a millennia of decrease in forest cover, role in the production of water - in terms of and human scientists and interested by the relationship the northern rim of Mediterranean basin has quality, quantity and seasonality - water and between forests and human societies. In 2013, she was experienced during the last decades a natural forest policies remain quite disconnected. Even chairing the evaluation panel of FAO Committee on plant re-colonisation due to the abandonment more, the water and forest value chains are Mediterranean Forestry Questions Silva Mediterranea”. of rural areas and the urbanisation of society. almost totally divorced. Although water related In contrast, the eastern and southern rims forest ecosystem services have been evaluated are characterized by a high pressure from in monetary terms quite many times, it remains human populations on forest and woodland mainly an academic exercise. Only a few local ecosystems leading to overexploitation, efforts to implement Payments for Ecosystem overgrazing and biological degradation. Such Services (PES) are attempting to create a forest- a situation is explained by a high population water value chain, especially those providing the growth, low income per capita and a marked financial means needed to manage forests for rural population density. In addition, most water. countries on the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean are in ‘water stress,’ with less It is then necessary to have a better and Christophe BESACIER graduated as an Agronomist than 1000 m3/capita/year. These changes in the shared understanding of the interactions engineer specialized on rural development in 1990 (Ecole landscape have far reaching consequences for between forests and water, be there synergies Nationale Superieure Agronomique of Toulouse). He also water availability and quality. or trade-offs, in order to be able to develop obtained a Master degree on Tropical Agriculture in 1991 the necessary institutional arrangements. This (Centre National des Etudes Agronomiques pour les The Mediterranean region is approaching 500 shared understanding can be achieved through Régions Chaudes de Montpellier). He is currently Ingénieur million inhabitants. The already vulnerable water increased cross-sectorial dialogue among the for the French Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood and Forest. resources are under increased pressures. The forest and water communities supported in an Regional advisor for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs momentum for the bio economy might also effective policy-science-practice interface. in the Sahel region from 2000 to 2004 and for the Congo contribute to even increase water demands, Basin region from 2004 to 2009, he is currently in charge as bio products can have considerable water of the Secretariat of the Committee on Mediterranean footprints. Despite the increase reliance on Forestry Questions-Silva Mediterranea within the Forestry alternative sources, forest catchments supply “in maintaining high water quality Department of the United Nations Food and Agriculture a large proportion of water used for domestic, services provided by forests Organization (FAO). He supported the publication of the agricultural, industrial and ecological needs. ecosystems make their most first State of Mediterranean Forests launched in 2013, the We might soon be in a situation where decision significant contribution to the preparation of the Strategic Framework on Mediterranean will need to be taken in the allocation of water Forests adopted in Tlemcen (Algeria) in March 2013 and the resources between green water used by hydrological characteristic of organization of the several Mediterranean Forests Weeks forests and blue water than can be regulated watershed ecosystemS” since the first edition held in Antalya in April 2010. and used for agriculture, industry and human
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This is urgent as water related ecosystem Agua y Bosques: services might become even more relevant in Una gestión integrada crucial para hacer frente a los cambios globales en el Mediterráneo the next years while the Mediterranean basin is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. Effects of climate change (e.g. changing Hora Contenido Ponentes Resultados esperados precipitation patterns, increasing temperature) Nelly BOURLION Objectives of the session will disturb the relationships between forests 14:30 Introduction of the session and water. Moderate reductions in precipitation (Plan Bleu) Programme of the session might have dramatic effects in the water flows produced in forested basins. Climate change can 14:35 Keynotes also have indirect effects on water resources, such as increased extent and severity of wildfire Thomas HOFER Keynote Speech 1 State of scientific knowledge and forest mortality as this can also increase the 14:35 (FAO - gestión de cuencas (scientific knowledge) on water & forest erosion risk. hidrográficas)
Policy development in relation Keynote Speech 2 Don WHITE Objectives 14:45 to forests and water in (policy development) (Whitegum FNR, Australia) Australia This session will have the following objectives:
• What are the priorities in managing forest for 14:55 Discussions water in the Mediterranean? What new policy developments are being implemented? 15:10 Roundtable
• How to set a favourable regulatory framework Expose forest management to enhance the role and the use of forests constraint and needs as “green infrastructures” providing high Encourage an integrated Watershed management Àngels Cabello Gomez forest and water management quality drinking water? Does it make sense? CETaqua Barcelona 15:10 and water security. Vision Expose some successful from water operators (Centro Tecnológico del tools/methods implement in • Are water-related Payments for Ecosystem Agua)/AGBAR Services (PES) a relevant option? Mediterranean Possible reflection on need on • What are the adaptation opportunities scientific data associated with forest management, in the context of water and aquatic ecosystems? Quality of drinking water Julien FIQUEPRON Expose treatment constraints 15:20 from forests, treatment and needs of water provided (CNPF-IDF) • How to enhance a cross-sectorial science- costs by forest policy dialogue in the field of forest and water? Exchange on the possibility to Pablo MARTÍNEZ DE implement PES at the Are PES schemas ANGUITA watershed scale 15:30 working somewhere? Profesor Titular en Facilitate partnerships and Contacts Why? Universidad Rey Juan Carlos investments between water Plan Bleu and forest stakeholders. Ms. Nelly Bourlion 15:40 Discussions [email protected] Summary of the session and discussion EFIMED Conclusions (proposal of Davide PETTENELLA Recommendations that could (Universidad de Padua) Mr. Inazio Martinez de Arano 16:20 recommendations by the be incorporated into the rapporteur) conclusion of the 4th MFW [email protected] Opening on the adaptation possibilities Ms. Sophie Vallée [email protected]
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Nelly Bourlion, graduated as an Agronomy engineer in 2010 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse, has a MSc. in Economy from the South Dakota SESSION 3 State University obtained in 2012. She currently works at Plan Bleu as a program officer for Forest Ecosystems and Biodiversity. She is in charge of the Energy and forests: FFEM project called “Optimizing the production of goods What role for forest biomass in the and services by Mediterranean forests in a context of Mediterranean energy mix? Objective global changes”. Before that, she worked two years in the performance evaluation team in the GEF Evaluation office The objective of the session is to share different in Washington DC, and two years as a research associate Organization: COSE, REMUFOR, CTFC perspectives on forest biomass for energy in the Economics Department of the South Dakota State generation, discussing the potential and University. Rapporteur: limitations of its use and its role in the energy mix Mr. Joan ROVIRA of Mediterranean countries, as well as the need for adapted policies, regulations and measures. Davide Pettenella is full professor at the University Consorci Forestal de Catalunya of Padova (Italy) where is teaching forest economics. He has worked extensively in forest products and services Facilitator: Methodology marketing, with a special focus on Corporate Social Mr. Denis BOGLIO Responsibility and the ethical aspects connected with CTFC The session consists of a round table including public institutions role in regulating the forestry sector (illegal short oral presentations (10 min each) and a logging and FLEGT, ENA-FLEG, flexible mechanisms, PES, debate with the public. It will be followed by a REDD+, ethical finance, etc.). He has published more than Background coffee break (16:30-17:00) and a synthesis of all 300 papers in the field of forest economics and marketing sessions of the day at the plenary (17:00-18:00). as a result of research activities and field works carried out Energy consumption in the Mediterranean is within programs financed by the European Commission, increasing and so is the need and demand for Target audience FAO, European Forestry Institute, World Bank, and by Italian renewable energy sources. institutions. Experts from the energy sector, forest owners, Forest biomass can be used to produce biomass and heaters/boilers companies, policy sustainably electricity and heat and can makers (energy, rural development, forestry Don WHITE is a freelance Forest Scientist with nearly 30 years significantly contribute to the European and sectors), researchers, students, etc. of experience researching forest-water interactions. His research Mediterranean renewable energy mix, beside has been concerned with the impact of plantations on water solar and wind power, helping to reach the Contact resources and managing the trade-off between productivity and Renewable Energy Directive 2020 target of a drought risk in water-limited environments. From 1987 to 2013 he 20% renewable energy share. worked for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research CTFC Organisation in Australia and held a number of science leadership In 2010, in Europe, about 50% of all woody Mr. Denis BOGLIO positions including as leader of the Forests and Water program biomass was used for energy purposes (AEBIOM in the Cooperative Research Centre for Forestry and leader of 2012), and 50% of total woody bioenergy was [email protected] CSIRO’s International Agricultural Research for Development. used by the residential sector, 25% by the wood Currently working on projects for FAO, the Australian Centre for industry and 25% by powerplants (UNECE-FAO International Agricultural Research, the National Centre for Future 2012). According to the National Renewable Forest Industries and ARAUCO in Chile. Energy Action Plans, domestic supply of wood “Forest biomass can be used to directly from forestry is expected to account produce sustainably electricity and for approx. 32% of the total heat and power heat and can significantly contribute Thomas Hofer is a Swiss National. He studied Geography generated with biomass by 2020 (IC et al. 2012). and Biology in Berne. His PhD thesis entitled “floods in to European and Mediterranean Bangladesh - a highland-lowland interaction?” was awarded Promoting the use of forest biomass can renewable energy” the “First Environmental Research Price” of the University contribute to rural development (creation of of Berne. In 1997 and 1998 he worked as Watershed jobs, attenuation of rural exodus) and climate Management Advisor at the International Centre for Integrated change mitigation (decrease in CO2 emissions Mountain Development in Kathmandu for a regional from fossil fuels and carbon storage through watershed management project with field sites in Pakistan, sustainable forest management). India, Nepal and the Yunnan Province of China. Since 1998 he works at FAO. He is responsible for FAO’s global However, ensuring a clean and sustainable program on watershed management, sustainable mountain energy source raises several challenges: the development and forest hydrology. His portfolio includes the origin, quality and use of forest biomass must technical supervision of field projects in Asia, Africa and Latin indeed be adequately framed and regulated to America, the coordination of conceptual and applied research mitigate deforestation, land conversion, loss of activities and the support to international processes. Since biodiversity and air contamination. August 2012 he also acts as the Coordinator of the Mountain Partnership Secretariat.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Denis BOGLIO is the Director General of the Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia (CTFC). He holds a Master in Management (SKEMA Business school), MSC in
Energy and forests: International Business (University of Groningen) and DEA What role for forest biomass in the Mediterranean energy mix? in Information and Communication Sciences (Montpellier University). Denis is an expert in European research and development and regional cooperation programs, Time Content Speakers Expected results particularly in the forestry sector. Specialist of Mediterranean environments, institutions and forest policy in relation Presentation of the The context, objectives and to rural development, research, and wood industries, he session and speakers and Denis BOGLIO format of the session as well 14:30 represents the private forest property in many forums in brief introduction to the (CTFC, Spain) as the speakers are presented Europe and the Mediterranean. topic and the topic is introduced
An example of large-scale A successful example of biomass-based energy energy generation from Antoine MUGNIER 14:40 generation plant and related forest biomass: E.ON (EON, France) biomass sourcing challenges Gardanne are presented Aljoscha Requardt has a wide expertise in international PROFORBIOMED: Roque PÉREZ PALAZÓN forest developments, policy and institutions. Since 2011, he promoting renewable PROFORBIOMED objectives (Murcia Autonomous is the Secretary General of the Confederation of European energies by developing an and achievements are Forest Owners (CEPF) in Brussels, Belgium and represents 14:50 Community Presidency integrated strategy for the presented and discussed the interests of European forest owners and the forest Council, Spain) use of forest biomass sector at international/EU policy level. Before joining CEPF, he worked at the European Forest Institute, as Manager of Certification as a guaranty The importance of forest the Observatory for European Forests in Nancy, France, and Ana Belén NORIEGA as Scientist at the Thünen Institute/University of Hamburg of responsible production certification for sourcing 15:00 BRAVO in Germany. Aljoscha holds a PhD in Natural Science (Dr. and consumption of forest sustainable biomass is (PEFC Secretary, Spain) rer.nat) and a MSc in Forest Science from the Dresden biomass presented University of Technology. He is an expert in European/EU forest policy processes, advocacy and lobbying and has Aljoscha REQUARDT an extensive background in the concept and monitoring Private forest owners’ The vision of forest owners (Secretary General of of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM). Since 2012, 15:10 perspective on wood regarding biomass promotion European Confederation of Aljoscha represents CEPF in the Board of the Forest-based energy and bioeconomy and use is presented Sector Technology Platform (FTP). Forest Owners, Belgium)
Ecological perspective from Forest biomass from an Rui BARREIRA the promotion and use of 15:20 ecological perspective (WWF MedPO, Portugal) Joan Rovira i CIURÒ is a forest owner with a degree in forest biomass is presented forest engineering (1996 UdL, Lleida) and a specialization in business administration (MBA 1999, ESADE, Barcelona). Debate: What role for Since 2002, He is the General Secretary of the Private An open debate is generated, forest biomass in the Forest Owners Association of Catalonia (Consorci Forestal 15:30 Public & invited experts issues are raised and Mediterranean energy de Catalunya, www.forestal.cat) and the Managing Director challenges discussed mix? of a Forest Owners’ Cooperative. During that period, he has developed a long career and network participating in the board of directors of leading forest organizations such as The session is summarized the Confederation of Spanish Forest Organizations (COSE), Conclusions & closure of Denis BOGLIO and the key take away 16:25 the European Confederation of Forest Owners (CEPF) and the session (CTFC, Spain) messages are delivered to the PEFC Spain. Moreover, he participates at a regional and UE public level in the promotion and management of several projects and initiatives focused on the promotion and support of forestry, sustainable management and rural development.
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Triangular Cooperation Morocco – Costa Rica – Germany Roundtable: to improve the sustainable Ecological value, conservation and management and use of forest, protected areas protected areas and watersheds in the context of Climate Change As a response to these challenges, the Organization: AIFM International Association for Mediterranean • lessons learnt up to now Forests (AIFM) is working with the MAVA Organization: GIZ Background Foundation, in order to take more into account • possibilities of extension to other MENA- the ecological values in Mediterranean forests Background countries Through their biodiversity (specific, genetic and management. The MEDFORVAL project is the first step on this path, with the aim of creating a landscape), Mediterranean forest ecosystems A Memorandum of Understanding for this TC Methodology network of high ecological value forested areas have for centuries been resources of high has been signed in Rabat in 11/2013 between and developing exchanges between ecologists value for the inhabitants of these territories; the Moroccan HCEFLCD*, the Costa Rican • Short power-point presentations by and foresters. today we are becoming increasingly aware MINAE* and the German Embassy, in order representatives of the 3 partner organizations of the high value of all the environmental to increase exchange of best practices and services they provide, in a global context of Objectives use that knowledge for national development • Q&A-breaks socio-economic transformations and climate processes. change. Their conservation is therefore a key • Discuss on the topic of ecological value • Final discussion between all speakers and issue. It is needed everywhere, but some conservation and protected areas, with In international development debate “triangular” audience on further possibilities for the areas require special protection because of the support of the MEDFORVAL project as or “trilateral” cooperation is increasingly MENA region their high ecological value, and because they background; regarded as forming a useful link between can serve as a lab to develop knowledge and South-South and North-South cooperation. • Fact sheets and other information material new models of management (restoration, • Share and disseminate knowledge and The international declarations of Accra, Doha for participants protection, sustainable management). In this information to all interested stakeholders. and Busan all express the hope that the light, protected areas and high ecological value instrument of triangular cooperation could help forests constitute an important thematic, which Contacts to promote dialogue and learning between the Target audience has been included in the Strategic framework various partners involved. on Mediterranean forests (strategic lines 5, 1 International debate on triangular cooperation AIFM Interested French & Spanish speaking and 3). is almost exclusively focused on Technical Mr. Alain Chaudron Cooperation instruments (capacity participants of IV MFW: Decision and policy A few numbers: the State of Mediterranean [email protected] development). The German federal Ministry makers, donors, experts from forest and other forests (SoMF) 2013, published by FAO, for Economic Cooperation and Development estimated that, in 2010, “there were an sectors, media. Ms. Marine Lovero (BMZ*) sees the triangular cooperation also as estimated 1.67 million ha of primary forests in an interesting tool for the Financial Cooperation, the Mediterranean region, which was 2 percent [email protected] which could take the form of joint investment Contact of the total forest area”, with these numbers projects, undertaken in partnership. varying a lot between countries, and that “almost German-supported triangular cooperation is Mr. Jean de Montgolfier GIZ 8.5 million ha of forests in the Mediterranean booming in Latin America in particular. In future, region were designated for the conservation of [email protected] more efforts should be made to use the potential Mr. R. Alexander KASTL biodiversity, which was 10 percent of the total for triangular cooperation in Asia and Africa. [email protected] forest area”. Along with Japan and Spain, Germany is one of the leading players and largest DAC* donors in The number of protected areas exceeds 4200, the field. “In international development debate but they are unevenly distributed, with over 90% Triangular or trilateral cooperation of them located on the north shore. Almost a “creating a network of High Objectives is increasingly regarded as forming a fifth of Mediterranean species is under threat. ECOLOGICAL value forests and Moreover, even if progress has been made in the useful link between South-South and developing exchanges between Sharing information about: last years, ordinary management, on a day-to- North-South cooperation” ecologists and foresters” day basis, mostly does not promote ecological • the instrument “Triangular Cooperation” in aspects. general
• the reasons for that particular TC
24 BOOKLET IV MFW 25 Forestry in Turkey for Sustainable Mediterranean Bioeconomy landscapes, where a multitude of different Development - Forests for nature, for Top 10 issues for achieving products, services and functions are performed, people, for all Bioeconomy in the Mediterranean and the true value of forests is recognised.
In November 2014, a major event on bioeconomy Organization: UNDP Turkey Organization: EFIMED took place in Barcelona (Spain): the Barcelona Target audience BioEconomy Forum 2014. Barcelona BioEco Background Background 2014 was designed as a platform bringing Representatives of Forestry Services in the together company leaders, policy makers and General Directorate of Forestry in Turkey aims to region, media, forest experts, and general scientists. Barcelona BioEco 2014 is the first share knowledge and experience with countries The basic definition of the bioeconomy is event in a series of biennial global forums on on sustainable forest management. GDF aims participants of the MFW an economy in which essential elements - sustainable economic development derived at sharing Turkey’s existing projects and on- materials, chemical products and energy - are from a wide variety of forest-based renewable going implementations about sustainable forest Contact obtained from renewable biological resources. resources and ecosystem services. The focus management with multiple benefits such as Many of the social, economic and environmental is on the challenges of the Mediterranean area climate change, biodiversity, governance and UNDP Turkey challenges faced by contemporary society could and Southern Hemisphere. The objective of the green growth. be resolved through a transition to this type of Barcelona BioEco 2014 was to generate practical Mr. Nuri ozbagdatli economy, as long as the biological resources new ideas on how to optimally and sustainably As a new social driver, forestry can support [email protected] are obtained and used in a sustainable manner. utilise natural resources, promoting wellbeing countries regarding their sustainable In a broader sense, the bioeconomy has also and resource wisdom for multiple benefits, and development goals. In partnership with been associated with concepts such as the solutions adapting to a changing climate and the international organizations, such as UNDP reduction or elimination of net carbon emissions, diminishing availability of natural resources. Turkey, GDF wants to establish new case studies the efficient use of natural resources, reutilisation Furthermore, two other events related with for Mediterranean countries to integrate forestry and recycling. In this context, the bioeconomy forests and bioeconomy took place in Southern into sustainable development goals. can also be understood as an economy that Europe in November 2014: aims to replace current “grey” infrastructures One of the projects under implementation with with “green” ones. • the international scientific and expert UNDP in Turkey is integrated forest management conference “Natural resources, green which focuses not only pure forestry activities for “share knowledge and experience Forests have the potential to make a significant technology and sustainable development”, carbon mitigation and biodiversity conservation with countries on sustainable contribution to the development of the in Zagreb (Croatia), gathering scientists but also creates new examples for improving forest management” bioeconomy. They are a source of renewable and entrepreneurs to highlight the latest livelihoods and also integrating other sectors raw materials with a low carbon footprint. achievements in science, illustrate new such as agriculture, tourism, energy, and health. Forests are a viable source of energy, and forest policies, demonstrate innovative techniques products are generally easy to either reuse or and outline sustainability of natural Objective recycle. Moreover, forests constitute a green resources. infrastructure: water supply, leisure, health and Side event aims at sharing existing projects tourism are just a few of the activities they make • the Second International Congress of and on-going implementations of General possible. Silviculture, in Florence (Italy), where the Directorate of Forestry in Turkey for starting growing importance of the silviculture in the up new cooperations and speeding up In the Mediterranean region, the underutilization economy has been raised. existing cooperations among Turkey and other of forest resources, the high value of forest Mediterranean Countries for integrating forestry ecosystems services and the increasing risk Objective in the sustainable development agenda of the of forest fire, incurring higher cost for forest countries. protection and conservation, are some of the The objective of this session is to present challenges faced. When considered alongside the conclusions of the past conferences on the lack of a value chain and the abandonment Methodology bioeconomy and to go then one step further in of forest management, there is a clear need for a the dialogue on how to achieve bioeconomy in step-change forest management paradigm. A power point presentation with 2 or 3 keynote Forests must be considered as multiple-use the Mediterranean. speakers from GDF and UNDP natural landscapes. This can be especially effective in the Mediterranean, where wood is Contact not as productive or profitable as in regions with higher levels of rainfall. More emphasis can EFIMED be made on using forests as multi-functional landscapes that provide wood, feed, food, good Mr. Inazio Martinez de Arano quality water, activity areas, wildlife habitats, and [email protected] tourism and recreation opportunities. Forests should be understood within their broader
26 BOOKLET IV MFW 27 Mediterranean Urban and periurban forests (UPF) for improving the environment and the quality of life in our cities WEDNESDAY Organization: CNR/IBAF
Background • To identify priorities and challenges for future research in the field; The Urban and Periruban Forests (UPF) can contribute to the improvement of the urban • To provide indicators and/or thresholds environment through a number of mitigation to be included by policy makers in local, actions. A well-structured urban or periurban national or international regulations about forest mitigates temperature, decreases acoustic GI and UPF; IV S FM pollution, water run-off and soil erosion, absorbs air, soil and water pollutants which means • To develop guidelines for GI planners improving the environment and the quality of and managers on how to implement GI life. Some of the above ecosystem services are approaches with an emphasis on linking the mainly relevant in Mediterranean environment. environmental and social services of UPF. For instance, the decrease of temperatures and mitigation of the “heat island effect” the uptake Methodology of pollutants typical of Mediterranean climate such as ozone, the reduction of water run-off • Power Point presentations in extreme events more and more frequent in southern climates. In other cases the role of • Round-table discussions urban trees can be detrimental such as in the case of BVOC emission which can dramatically • Involvement in the COST Action increase the photochemical reactivity of the “GreenInUrbs” urban atmosphere or the pollen release. These are both critical issues in Mediterranean regions • Information material distributed due to the length of the growing season, the high irradiance and the high biodiversity in urban tree species. Target audience
This conference is organized in the framework of The list of target groups/end users who will be the COST Action FP1204”GreenInUrbs” Green interested in this event is quite long as it includes Infrastructure approach: linking environmental both scientific communities, local and national with social aspects in studying and managing authorities, policy makers, professional forest urban forests” (www.greeninurbs.com) which is and landscape managers and private citizens. involving all European Countries, FAO and some The event is open to interested participants. extra-European countries including Algeria, Morocco, Israel, Armenia, Ukraine, USA, Canada Contact and soon Australia and China. The conference is also supported by SilvaMED, FAO, and EFIMED. CNR/IBAF Mr. Carlo Calfapietra Objectives [email protected] The main objectives are:
• To increase the understanding of the role of UPF in the context of Green Infrastructures (GI) from a scientific and a socio-economic perspective, in terms of the ecosystem services provided to people and to the urban environment;
@ P. Valbuena 28 BOOKLET IV MFW 29 FIELD TRIP 1 FIELD TRIP 2
Visit to Montnegre i el Corredor Visit to the Montseny Natural Park: Natural Park: “Multifuncional forest “Multifunctional management for management in conciliating biodiversity conservation Mediterranean areas” and tourism promotion” Organization: Forest Ownership Centre (CPF) Organization: Diputació de Barcelona (DIBA) In this field trip we will visit two private forests located in the heart of the Montnegre-Corredor Natural Park, in the pre-litoral mountain range Visit to the Valley of Santa Fe, emblematic of Catalonia. Firstly, the Park’s managers area of the Montseny Natural Park, with a high (Diputació de Barcelona) will give us a general biodiversity value, very important species from a overview on the role of forestry in the Park, that naturalistic point of view, and an intense public has made a step forward to promote active use. The comprehensive and multifunctional sustainable forest management as a way to management of this area will be presented achieve forest - and biodiversity - conservation. though a network of itineraries, an information In an area where forests are mainly private, the centre, a nature classroom and private tourism role of forest owners is crucial. With regard to facilities. The European Charter for Sustainable this, we will have with us the engineer in charge Tourism project will thus be presented as a of the forest owners’ association of Montnegre- management tool allowing to conciliate different Corredor which is launching a new approach tourism-related uses, public and private, and to collaborative forest management regarding especially as a tool for structuring and linking not only joint management – promoted by the tourism entrepreneurs with the Montseny. Catalan government - but also joint marketing of products such as cork or high quality Info broadleaved timber. Finally, with the help of the technicians of the Forest Ownership Please carefully note field trip departure is at Centre of Catalonia and the site owners, we 7:30 a.m. We recommend that participants will take a look into some of the challenges of dress comfortably. Mediterranean silviculture based on the example of a cork producing forest stand and a Holm oak forest that has been put into production under two contrasted silvicultural approaches. Key features of the discussion will be high quality cork production, silviculture for water management and the economic profitability of Mediterranean silviculture in a climate change perspective. A picnic will be provided to be enjoyed in the gardens of a picturesque Catalan villa.
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Please carefully note field trip departure is at 7:30 a.m. We recommend that participants dress comfortably. A dossier with technical information will be provide to participants.
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Tourism and Forest: Tourism and forests: tourism adequately and also to manage forests how to get the best out of their interdependency? “how to promote and optimize their and recreation sites accordingly to their usage
mutual development?’’ and frequentation. Strict protection policies have appeared to be relatively unsuccessful in Time Content Speakers Expected results reducing anthropic pressures on ecosystems The context, objectives and and in generating incomes for local communities Jordi WILLIAMS CARNES Organization: REMUFOR, CTFC Presentation of the session format of the session as well and efforts are thus now placed in promoting a Director General of 14:30 and speakers and brief as the speakers are transition towards local sustainable territorial Barcelona Tourism Rapporteur: introduction to the topic presented and the topic is development schemes integrating tourism into Consortium (Spain) Ms. Najiba ENNOURSAID introduced WWF Morocco natural resources conservation strategies. Samiha KHELIFA BEDIOUFI The importance of Facilitator: While specific sustainability indicators are being University of Sousse, Mediterranean forest areas developed at the national and EU levels and Keynote presentation: the University of Sousse and Mr. Jordi WILLIAMS CARNES for tourism and forest awareness-raising campaigns are implemented 14:35 importance of forests for researcher in the Silvo- Barcelona Turisme development perspectives to foster sustainable tourism, the forest sector Mediterranean tourism Pastoral Resources (ISPT) thanks to tourism are must reap profits from this industry in order (University of Jendouba) presented (Tunisia) Background to incentivize forest management, meet the demand and take up current socioeconomic The objectives and challenges. Booming industry from the 20th and 21st MEET Project - achievements of the MEET Marcos VALDERRABANO 14:50 Mediterranean Experience of Project are presented, century, tourism relies more than any other (IUCN-Med) economic activity on territories’ natural assets Objective Eco-tourism especially from a Southern and hospitality. The social demand for attractive, perspective The objective of this session is to share different quiet, safe and naturally looking spaces for Pablo MARTINEZ DE recreation and ecotourism is rising, notably from perspectives on the importance of forests Landscare App: how to ANGUITA Landscare App and potential urban populations. Thus, access to the territory, for tourism activities and socioeconomic valorize forest ecotourism 15:00 ISEAD - Superior Institute of landscape protection, environment quality and development and to discuss the technical, through payment for of payment for environmental Education, Administration services are presented forest management are therefore increasingly economic and political challenges raised by the environmental services at stake and call for adequate planning and promotion of nature tourism in the Mediterranean and Development (Spain) funding. and the management of forests and natural A successful example of areas. Discussion will arise on the public tourism promotion at the Luis OLIVARES MELERO The importance of forests for Forest areas offer rural development access and use of forests and natural areas, 15:10 municipal level in Catalonia Cazorla Townhall councillor tourism at municipal scale is perspectives based on their multifunctionality, impacts of forest tourism on local development, and its economic impact in (Spain) presented i.e. the multitude of goods and services they socioeconomic impacts of forest fires on tourism, South Europe provide, although those do not always have a and indicators of sustainable tourism, amongst Patrick SPENCER direct market value. Forests represent undeniably others. Experiences from the North and South Cork forest eco-tour in Spain A cork-based tourism 15:20 Cork Forest Conservation an ecological and economical asset for the Mediterranean will be presented and discussed. and Portugal initiative is presented Alliance Mediterranean Region, making it attractive for millions of tourists who seek not only the sea Target Audience but also green and less anthropized spaces Cinzia DE MARZO 15:30 ETIS, European Tourism EC, Enterprise and Industry ETIS is presented and landscapes for a more nature-oriented Experts from the tourism sector, municipalities, Indicators System (EU) and open-air experience. But shall tourism be forest owners, forest managers, tour operators, DG (Belgium) considered as a main economic development travel agencies, policy makers (tourism, rural A successful example of driver needing forests as a necessary input, or development and forestry sectors), researchers, Haytham FAWAZ also as a tool for promoting forest development forest-based tourism Tourism promotion around students, etc. 15:40 promotion at the municipal forests in Lebanon is and local resource ownership? Tourist Guide Syndicate level and its economic impact (Lebanon) presented Contacts in Lebanon Tourism relies clearly on forests and trees, but also generates significant financial fluxes that Debate: Tourism and REMUFOR An open debate is can benefit rural areas and can be re-injected into forests: how to promote and 15:50 Public & invited speakers generated, issues are raised the management of forests and natural spaces Mr. Fernando PRADELLS optimize their mutual and challenges discussed for their long-term conservation, restoration [email protected] development? and valorization. Nonetheless, tourism activities also exert significant pressures on forests CTFC Jordi WILLIAMS CARNES The session is summarized Conclusions and closure of and the key take away and ecosystems in general, underlining the 16:25 DG of Barcelona Tourism Mr. Fabrice GOURIVEAU the session messages are clearly apparent difficulty to combine them with forest Consortium (Spain) conservation, and the need to plan and regulate [email protected] delivered to the public
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SESSION 2
Samiha KHELIFA BEDIOUFI. Engineer from the ENSH, Doctor in Sustainable Agriculture, entitled in Rural Wealth from forests: Engineering, Water and Forests, she is a lecturer at “Innovative approaches to medicine, wild foods and natural cosmetics. the University of Sousse and a member of the Silvo- sustainable exploitation and The cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry is Pastoral Resources research laboratory from the Silvo- valorisation of forest products’’ interested in biological resources provided by Pastoral Institute of Tabarka, University of Jendouba. She Mediterranean forests and in local communities’ coordinates the MODECO online professional master traditional knowledge of natural products and in ecotourism from the ISPT, sponsored by the Agence Organization: CESEFOR/RMFM, CTFC, GIZ their use. There is growing concern that local Universitaire de la Francophonie as well as the team of the communities and countries providing genetic first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on ecotourism Rapporteur: resources and traditional knowledge that are in the world. She holds a MSc. in ICTs use in education and Mr. Abdelmalek Abdelfettah used in the development of new cosmetic and training, and is certified in e-reputation management. She is DGF Algeria pharmaceutical products do not profit from a member of the IFIC (Institut Francophone de l’Ingénierie the benefits generated by this utilization. The de la Connaissance) Scientific Committee, Vice-president Facilitator: access and benefit-sharing provisions of the of the Defismed association and member of the steering Ms. Patricia SFEIR Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) are committee from the “Take the Med” project. SEEDS-INT designed to ensure a fair and equitable sharing of these benefits by generating monetary and Background non-monetary compensation. Jordi WILLIAMS CARNES born in 1959 in Barcelona The purpose of the so-called access and benefit- Mediterranean forests and woodlands play a and father of two children, he holds a degree in Germanic sharing (ABS) principles is to generate benefits key role for the well-being of local populations, Philology and is graduated from ESADE and IESE. Since for poverty alleviation and nature conservation, contributing significantly to rural development, July 2014, he is the Director General of Barcelona Turisme. create an economic incentive for sustainable poverty alleviation and food security. They Fan of football and mountains, he also occupies the use of (forest) resources, and support capacity provide numerous goods and services, such presidency of CTecno, a private network of professional development by transferring technologies, as timber- and non-timber products, water technology associations and corporations in Catalonia. knowledge and skills. The challenge is to protection, erosion and desertification control, He served as Deputy Mayor for Economic Promotion and translate these principles into functioning carbon sequestration, biodiversity conservation Budget at the Barcelona City Council between 2007 and policies and regulatory frameworks at the and natural areas for recreation. 2011. On behalf of the Barcelona City Council, he already national level as well as practicable mechanisms served as vice president of Barcelona Turisme. He has also that will generate real benefits for countries and Local communities, in particular in the eastern been Minister of Agriculture from the Catalan Government communities that provide genetic resources. and southern rim of the Mediterranean basin, and head of the Cabinet of the Province of Barcelona, There is a need to provide useful guidance as to often depend on forests for their livelihoods. among others. how ABS can be applied to the use of NWFP and Forest goods are often the only source of income how to tap the full potential of traditional forest- for these communities. This is particularly related knowledge to provide significant benefits true for women who only have few alternative for forest-dependent local communities. sources of income. The commercialisation of forest products has the potential to increase Najiba ENNOURSAID holds a Master in law from the income and job opportunities while at the same Objective University of Casablanca and a Master in Political and Social time contributing to conservation objectives. The objective of this session is to summarize and Sciences with distinction “Information-Communication” However, know-how and experiences on highlight the potential of forest products for local from the University of Paris 2. She is Communications sustainable exploitation and valorisation of development, and to present some methods Officer at AESVT-WWF (World Wildlife Fund, Rabat). She has forest products, especially non-timber forest and practical examples of their valorisation. The served as Communications Officer of the Economic Justice products (NTFP), are still insufficient. In aim is to show good practices of a sustainable Programme within the Development Associations Network addition, forest administrations, owners and and equitable use of forest biodiversity and (Larache, 2012-2013) and Communications Officer for the users are facing management, regulation and an integral and sustainable approach to the Development and Environment Interdisciplinary Association legal problems that impede the release of this management and utilization of forest products, Targa-Aide (Rabat, 2011-2012). She also worked as potential and thus inhibit the development from upstream to downstream of the value chain. Communications Assistant at the International News of the sector. Successful and sustainable Channel France 24 (Paris, 2009-2010), after being temporary NTFP commercialization requires a favourable worker at the French Press Institute as part of a study of legislative framework that defines the amount, the Centre for Interdisciplinary Analysis and Research on area and period of NTFP collection, governs the “Local communities, in particular Media (2009), and intern supporting Communications at access rights to forest resources, and secures the eastern and southern rim the International Agency for Communications and Press the rights of local communities. of the Mediterranean basin, (Casablanca, 2007-2008). often depend on forests This also includes ensuring equitable distribution for their livelihoods” of economic benefits from the use of NTFP. There is an increasing demand in particular for products related to herbal and alternative
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Methodology Wealth from forests: Innovative approaches to sustainable exploitation and valorisation of forest products An introductory presentation will give a quick summary of the importance of forest products for employment creation and income generation Time Content Speakers Expected results in rural areas. Then a combination of short Introduction of the session The objectives of the session presentations (max. 15 min) and short films will 14:30 and presentation of the Moderator are specified and the program illustrate this importance. The session focuses speakers and speakers are presented. on discussion, with adequate time for answers and short debates around these issues. The Forest products as a driving The importance of forest discussion will also be stimulated by live and force of local economy products for local economic online questions. development as well as • Forest product-based a) Youssef SAADANI employment creation and 14:35 micro enterprises – (Tunisia) income generation in rural Target audience Video areas is presented. The audience is aware of Entire audience of the Mediterranean forest • The importance of forest innovations on the market for week. products for the local b) Alvaro PICARDO forest products. economy (Spain) Contacts Integrated management of The importance of forest CESEFOR forest resources products and sustainable Mr. Riccardo CASTELLINI resource management at the • The "value chain" c) Ljiljana M. KEČA landscape level is presented. [email protected] approach in the context (Serbia) of forest products CTFC 14:55 • Mr. David SOLANO Management of a non- timber forest product [email protected] from the point of view of d) Donia ABDELWAHED the entire value chain, (Tunisia) GIZ from the product origin to Ms. Gisa Marggraff the consumer – the example of the [email protected] Mycosilva project Sustainable and equitable Participants are aware of the use of forest biodiversity ABS principles. A way of applying these principles in • “Access to Genetic e) FILM by “The ABS practice is presented. Resources and the Fair Capacity Development and Equitable Sharing of Initiative” Benefits Arising from 15:25 their Utilization (ABS)” – Video
• The implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on f) Kaoutar EL Access and Benefit- RHAFFOULI Sharing - the example of Morocco Debate between audience and 15:50 Discussion with participants Moderator and speakers speakers; doubts are clarified and ideas are shared. The session ends with a short conclusion and 16:25 Closure of the session Moderator acknowledgment s to the public and speakers, and the mention of the plenary session to come
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Abdelmalek Abdelfettah is graduated in Forest and Water Engineering from the Rabat Salé Forestry National School in Morocco. He has been director of forest projects from 1980 to 1990, being in charge of the implementation of management Gender and Forestry plans in Algerian oak, Aleppo pine and cedar forests. He was in charge of reforestation projects from 1990 to 1998 at the General Directorate of Forests. From 1998 to 2010, he served Organization: GIZ in his/her institution. A gender quiz will “test” as project manager in a rural employment project co-funded by gender knowledge in a pleasant frame to end the World Bank for the creation of labour in mountainous rural Background the session with the distribution of “gender - areas in order to reduce water erosion and conserve natural message - T-Shirts” and documentation to all resources. From 2010 to 2013, he held the position of Assistant As a cross cutting issue, gender is relevant participants. Director of programming and studies at the Directorate of for the forest sector and forest populations. Planning. From 2013 to date, he served as study director Because of the low awareness of the in charge of Regulations, Communication and International importance of the gender dimension, the issue Objective Cooperation. Abdelfettah is also focal point of the FFEM project however is not yet consistently considered in and member of the Mediterranean Forest Communicators forest administrations, policies, planning and Raising awareness of the importance of the Network. implementation of forest related actions. gender dimension within the forest sector and for society. Gender equality is one of the basic conditions for Patricia SFEIR Development Programs Manager for sustainable human and economic development. Methodology Seeds-int, a Lebanese SME involved in Socio-Economic, Poverty can be alleviated if gender inequalities Environment and Development services, since 2012. Holder of are reduced. A nation depending on its human • Short power-point presentations a Master Degree in Water Resource Management from Bari – resources can become economically strong, • Q&A and a BS in Agriculture from the American University of Beirut if male and female human capacities are (AUB). Ms. Sfeir has 14 years of experience in sustainable developed and can be fully used. • Quiz on gender knowledge development with more focus on forest development and • Information material for participants, community forestry. She has demonstrated experience As a cross cutting issue, the gender dimension distribution of T-Shirts with gender message. in participative approaches for engaging forest people in concerns all policies and sectors. In the sustainable forest management. forest sector, the gender dimension is not yet Expert in desigining and promoting good governance systematically considered. This is reflected by Target audience practices for engaging rural communities in the forest the composition of the human resources working development and local community consultation, as well as for the forest administrations in the MENA region: French and English speaking participants of planning strategies for socio- economic development of forest the forest sector is male dominated. As for the IV MFW interested in the issue; actors of the communities. Ms. Sfeir is now providing technical guidance to target group of forest related socio-economic forest sector in charge of planning forest related the drafting of the National Forest Program in Lebanon. development measures, the needs and interests projects; Human resource managers of forest of the female rural population often are neglected administrations; donors, media. in the planning and implementation process, putting at risk the success of the development Alvaro PICARDO is a forester at the Politechnic University Contact measure. of Madrid, with a degree in Natural Resources Science GIZ by University of California at Berkeley. He has worked for Therefore, the gender issue has to be a central 15 years as a district forester, managing public forests in Ms. Heidrun Ströbert-Beloud theme in the political dialogue, in international, Northern Spain, and nowdays he works as Adviser to the national and local events, to reach a large public, [email protected] General Director in Natural Environment, at the regional to raise awareness and motivate key persons government of Castilla y León (Spain). He is responsible of to take adequate actions within the forest defining public policies for the forest sector in the region. He sector. The gender side event during the IV participated in the coordination of the Regional Forest Plan Mediterranean Forest Week wants to contribute (2002-2027) and writing the Forest Law (2009). to this aim. He works in fire prevention policies, specially dealing with “Gender equality is one of the the integration of grazing on forests, in the promotion of After an introduction into the gender dimension in bioenergy and the mobilization of all type of forest products, basic conditions for sustainable general and efforts of the German Development in particular non-wood forest products, as natural resin, human and economic development” Cooperation (GIZ) in particular, FAO will talk mushrooms, pine nuts and chestnuts. He also works for about its work in the field of gender sensible the International Model Forest Network and suggested the project development. A representative of the creation of the Mediterranean Model Forest Network. Moroccan forest administration will present the ongoing gender mainstreaming process
38 BOOKLET IV MFW 39 Future Projects Engaging Mediterranean Setting-up new projects together: Communities in Wildfire Risk which priorities and financing Mitigation opportunities?
Organization: CTFC and PCF Organization: CTFC
Background Target audience Presentation of the FIREWISE-Lebanon Background Project, by Mr. Joseph BECHARA and Dr. The IV MFW will allow researchers and forest Researchers, NGOs and administrations active Maya NEHME: Introduction of the Project’s The low social awareness of the exposure to managers and practitioners to make a balance in Mediterranean forests collaboration. concept; presentation of a guidelines booklet fire risk combined with the reduced individual of the last years of collaboration through entitled “Best practice guidelines for wildfire risk capacity to prevent and face emergencies programmes and projects. It will also provide Contact management at the local level”; 5-minute video increase both social vulnerability and the cost of a useful perspective on the existing and future documentary detailing the implementation of the civil protection actions. gaps in research and development and the main CTFC FIREWISE-Lebanon pilot project. trends towards which institutions and funding Mr. Fabrice GOURIVEAU agencies are heading. Therefore, communicating effectively about [email protected] wildfire risk and promoting the engagement Taking advantage of the presence of a large of local communities in prevention activities Target audience number of scientists and technicians from can reduce social vulnerability and enhance the whole Mediterranean, the IV MFW offers the resilience of citizens to wildfires in the All MFW participants. a perfect opportunity to collectively build Mediterranean region. future projects, seizing on H2020 and diverse international programmes. Objective Contact Objective Illustrate the importance of communicating CTFC The objective of this session is to create a efficiently about wildfire risk and of engaging Mr. Eduard PLANA communities in wildfire prevention and risk space for exchanges between researchers, [email protected] technicians, managers in order to identify joint mitigation, to strengthen civil protection efforts. priorities for future activities and research lines.
It should provide an opportunity for participating “create a space for exchanges Methodology institutions to expose their future research lines between researchers, technicians, and priorities and match them with the existing managers to identify joint Round table to present and discuss on- funding framework as to jointly set the basis going initiatives and tools related to wildfire for future concrete projects, especially in the priorities for future risk communication and to the participation framework of the EU 2014-2020 funding period. activities and research lines” of Mediterranean communities in wildfire risk mitigation: short oral presentations (10 Methodology min), projection of a video and exhibition of educational materials, followed by a short A call for contributions will be circulated among discussion with the audience. registered participants and their host institutions with a standard form to be filled with: title of the How to achieve social involvement in fire risk future project, main objectives, possible funding mitigation? The role of communication to instrument, partners needed and main contact. enhance citizens’ participation. By Eduard This will be compiled and exposed on panels PLANA (FIREfficient and eFIRECOM projects during the side-event. Coordinator) (Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia). Chairman of the session. Interested partners will be able to let post-it notes on the panels, stating which projects they Presentation of an educational tool designed are interested in, thus allowing for the proposer to create awareness among children on wildfire to contact them on-site. There will be one panel risk, by Oriol VILALTA (Pau Costa Foundation). by funding instrument: Interreg MED, H2020, ENPI, EuropeAid, Life+, FAO, etc.
40 BOOKLET IV MFW 41 Revising the Mediterranean Strategy for Sustainable Development under Barcelona Convention (MSSD 2.0) urbanisation and Integrated Coastal Zone Management, land transport, waste management, infrastructure, housing and energy Organization: Plan Bleu 5. Transition towards a green economy; including sustainable consumption and Background THURSDAY production 6. Governance, including financing, Aarhus The 18th Meeting of the Contracting Parties Convention–related issues such as public to the Barcelona Convention (December 2013, participation, and cooperation. Istanbul) adopted a decision regarding the revision of the Mediterranean Strategy for It was further agreed to proceed with the Sustainable Development (MSSD 1.0 - 2005) engagement of a senior technical advisor during 2014-2015 biennium. The review process (senior sustainable development expert) and six IV S FM of MSSD 1.0 was launched on 14 February thematic experts to assist Plan Bleu in supporting 2014, by Maltese Minister for Sustainable Thematic Working Groups (TWGs) on these six Development, Environment and Climate axes. Since the MCSD SC, recommendations Change. In April-May 2014, a wide stakeholder on MSSD 2.0 structure and vision have been consultation was carried out on the basis of a made, and the next phase of MSSD Review has MSSD Review Consultation Document prepared commenced, namely the drafting of the new to support the consultation. The inputs and strategy on the basis of TWGs addressing the comments were compiled and analysed, in order various themes of the structure. A first draft of to submit to the members of the Mediterranean the revised strategy is expected by December Commission on Sustainable Development 2014. Beginning in 2015, Phase 3 of the Review Steering Committee (MCSD SC) a “Discussion process will constitute a wide consultation Paper on MSSD 2.0 Structure and Vision”. process on the first draft of the MSSD 2.0, The MCSD SC held its 15th meeting on 11 and culminating in the submission of the revised 12 June 2014 in Malta. The main outcome of Strategy to the Contracting Parties (CPs) to the the meeting was the approval of the vision and Barcelona Convention at their 2015 meeting structure that will guide the formulation of the (COP19 – Greece). revised MSSD. In light of the discussions, the following vision, to be inserted in the draft of Objectives MSSD 2.0, was recommended: “A prosperous and peaceful Mediterranean region in which • Present and discuss the MSSD Review people enjoy a high quality of life and where process, as well as MSSD 2.0 (to be finalized) sustainable development takes place within the carrying capacity of healthy ecosystems. • Focus on the transversal theme 2 “Natural This is achieved through common objectives, resources, rural development and food”: cooperation, solidarity, equity and participatory How Mediterranean forests are and should governance.” The SC also recommended that be tackled within MSSD 2.0? MSSD 2.0 focuses on the following thematic and cross-cutting areas: Methodology
1. Seas and coasts; including efforts towards Keynote speaker and debate with the audience. reaching Good Environmental Status of Mediterranean marine and coastal Target audience ecosystems 2. Natural resources, rural development and Researchers and experts; NGOs; administrations food; including links not only to marine and and public agencies interested and anyone who coastal, but also terrestrial habitats, and to will attend the IV Mediterranean Forest Week. fresh waters 3. Climate; including the impacts of Contact climate change on natural resources and Plan Bleu socioeconomic sectors and possible responses Mr. Julien Le Tellier 4. Sustainable cities; including coastal [email protected]
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Entrepreneurship of the different stakeholders and channeling in Mediterranean landscapes: adequate resources to secure sustainable Entrepreneurship in Mediterranean landscapes: management. Going one step further, the “Inspiring cases and success stories Inspiring cases and success stories of entrepreneurship based on Mediterranean overarching theme for this IV Mediterranean forests’ products and services of entrepreneurship based on Forest week is ”Improving livelihoods: The Mediterranean forests’ products role of Mediterranean forests value chains Time Content Speakers Expected results and services” in a green economy”. In this way it is clearly addressing the urgency, the pressing need of • Objectives of the session Inazio Martinez de Arano strengthening the economic pillar of sustainable 9:00 Introduction of the session • (EFIMED) Programme of the Organization: EFIMED forest management in the Mediterranean. There session is a need to create relevant value chains that 9:05 Presentation of success stories of entrepreneurship in Mediterranean forests Rapporteur: support rural populations and that generate enough resources to secure the protection Ms. Camille Evard Four inspiring presentations by entrepreneurs that have succeeded in making value form ForEco Technologies, S.L and conservation of Mediterranean forests. It is difficult to imagine that this enormous task Mediterranean forests. Presentations will be followed by a brief period for questions and answers. Facilitator: can be accomplished without sound scientific A risk capital fund to Mr. Inazio Martinez de Arano knowledge, appropriate governance structures, Francisco Carvalho promote innovation in Innovation in the area of cork EFIMED public private partnerships and, probably most (AMORIM) importantly, a generation of entrepreneurs that cork through innovation at all levels can effectively Research & Innovation to replace Green chemistry: towards molecules from oil by equivalent generate and market value in a sustainable way. a chemical valorisation of Patricia Guiraudie Background (PRIDES NOVACHIM) molecules from wood 9:05 wood The Mediterranean region is characterized
by a large population density, by a very early Objectives Edu Balsells Martinez Innovative forest management, and significant urban phenomenon and by Silvopastoralism and • To share, showcase and discuss concrete combining sylvospastoralism and the scarcity and relative fragility and low prevention of forest fires (Associacio Ramadera examples of entrepreneurs that have Eco-Social La Gaiata) prevention of forest fires, as well productivity of its forests ecosystems. The as jobs creation lack of strong value chains outside some niche implemented an economic activity based productions (cork, poplar, argan oil, etc.) leads on Mediterranean forests products and Innovative hunting Rodrigo Gómez Conejo Electronic hunting auctions in to abandonment and increased forest fire services; management (CESEFOR) Castilla y León risk in some areas, while that same low value increased the pressure from local populations • To identify key innovation areas and key 10:00 Enabling innovation in Mediterranean Forests for over-exploitation and land use change in enabling conditions for strengthening other regions. entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean; Facilitated dialogue between participants and entrepreneurs aiming at:
There is pressing need to develop economically • To generate recommendations at different • and socially sustainable value chains that create levels in order to move forward relevant 10:00 identifying key enablers for innovation and business opportunities based in Mediterranean forest products and services and improve livelihoods and that contribute to priorities of the SFMF.
secure conditions for enhancing sustainable • generating recommendations for action. management of the forests. Contact • Summary of the session This was recognized in the III MFW held in and discussion Tlemcen (Algeria) from 17 to 21 March 2013. EFIMED Conclusions (proposal of Camille Evard (ForEco • Recommendations that This landmark event addressed the contribution 10:40 recommendations by the Mr. Inazio Martinez de Arano Technologies, S.L) could be incorporated of Mediterranean Forests to the Sustainable rapporteur) [email protected] into the conclusion of the development of territories under climate 4th MFW change. At the high level segment, the new Strategic Framework on Mediterranean Forests Ms. Sophie Vallée (SFMF) was endorsed. This important political document has three key objectives related to [email protected] i) the development and promotion of goods and services from Mediterranean forests; ii) Increasing the resilience of these ecosystems/ agroecosystems and iii) enhancing the capacity
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Camille Evard is an agricultural engineer specialized in rural and local development. Since 2013, she’s been working in the company ForEco, S.L. It is a Tools and initiatives for forest company specialised in developing tools for decision development Partnership on Mediterranean Forests making in forest management planning, applying the (CPMF) in 2010 latest knowledge in forest inventory, forest modelling, • Implementation of the Erasmus Mundus optimization techniques and information technologies Organization: AIFM & RMFM/CESEFOR as well as developing new business models on bio- Master degree MEDfOR (Mediterranean Forestry and Natural Resources economy. Currently, she’s working as a researcher in Rapporteur: the FP7 StarTree project (nº311919): Multipurpose trees Management), first Master degree on the Ms. Patricia Sfeir issues of Mediterranean forests and non-wood forest products (NWFP) for an innovative SEEDS-INT forestry in rural area. She is responsible for the study of • Implementation of regional cooperation innovation factors of NWFP-start-ups as well as business Facilitator: establishment conditions for the same companies. projects in the MENA countries funded by Mr. Abdelhamid Khaldi the French Global Environment Fund (FFEM) INRGREF/AIFM and the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) since 2010 Background • Launch of COST research projects The idea of forestry cooperation between Inazio Martínez de Arano joined EFIMED as Head of (European Cooperation in Science and the countries of the Mediterranean rim was Office in June 2013. He was previously Executive President Technology), including the COST Action on born in 1911 with the Mediterranean forest at the Union of Foresters of Southern Europe (USSE), the adaptation of marginal and peripheral league, called Silva Mediterranea. Since then, where he was involved in the analysis of forest-related forest populations to climate change (MaP- Mediterranean forests have been the subject of policy developments at European and global levels, and the FGR) in 2012 numerous cooperation mechanisms and various evaluation of the potential effects of policies and regulations partnerships. Many initiatives have emerged on Mediterranean and South Atlantic forests and forestry. • Launch of the FP7 Research program to unite the different actions and improve the Mr. Martinez has wide experience working in a network (European Union Seventh Framework exchange of knowledge and skills across the organisation. He was the coordinator of forest research Programme for Research), including the Mediterranean Basin: and a researcher at the Basque Institute for Agricultural project to reinforce the scientific cooperation Research (NEIKER) as well as a lecturer in the University and coordination of Mediterranean forest • Evolution of Silva Mediterranea from an of Concepción, Chile. As President of the European research (FORESTERRA) in 2012, and association to a statutory body of FAO in Institute for Cultivated Forests (IEFC), he was involved in the Mediterranean Network of Forestry 1948 the establishment of the Atlantic Regional Office of the Research and Innovation project (MENFRI) European Forest Institute - EFIATLANTIC. in 2013 • Creation of the International Association for Mediterranean Forests (AIFM) in 1996 • Organization of the Mediterranean Forest Weeks in Antalya in 2010, Avignon in 2011 • First evaluation of the Silva Mediterranea and Tlemcen in 2013; adoption, by the Committee by Mohamed Skouri and Placido ministers, of the State of Mediterranean Plaza in 1999 forests 2013 (SoMF), of the Strategic Framework on Mediterranean Forests • Implementation of European cooperation (SFMF) and of the declaration of Tlemcen programs in the Mediterranean area, such as the programs INTERREG, MEDOCC and • Adoption of the new Forest Strategy for MED Europe in 2013
• Development of European Neighbourhood • Draft convention on European forests (LBA Programmes (ENPI/IEVP) for countries of - legally binding Agreement), currently under the South and East of the Mediterranean discussion within the Ministerial Conference since 2007 on the Protection of Forests in Europe (Forest Europe) • Creation of EFIMED, Mediterranean Regional Office of EFI, in 2007 • Evaluation of the Silva Mediterranea Committee in 2013 and the CPMF in 2014. • Launch of the Mediterranean Model Forest Network (MMFN) in 2008
• Establishment of the Collaborative
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What are exactly these initiatives? What are the An analysis of these projects and tools will allow achievements and tools developed as part of for a gap analysis, both in terms of research and these initiatives to support forest development? management in the field. How have these tools been defined? What are Tools and initiatives for forest development the gaps and needs identified (gap analysis)? Part 2: Tools and national forestry politics How are these tools consequently considered Time Content Speakers Expected results The second part of the session will be and implemented in international, national and devoted to the presentation of two national Presentation of the context, the Presentation of the context, regional policies? Do these tools have an impact Abdelhamid Khaldi forest strategies: 11.15 objectives and the agenda of the the objectives and the in forest policies? session (5 min) (AIFM) agenda of the session Methodology • The “Plan de Activación Socioeconómica Part 1: Synthesis of the past and present initiatives and gap analysis del Sector Forestal” adopted in 2014 in Presentation of the The session will last 1h45 and will be structured Spain; approach, the in two parts with synthesis, communications achievements and the • The third national forest strategy adopted in Focus 1: initiatives in terms of Pilar Valbuena needs identified by the and a time for discussion. 11.20 2014 in Tunisia, for the next ten years. territorial governance (15 min) (MMFN/CESEFOR) following projects: Model Forest, QUALIGOUV, Part 1: Synthesis of the past and current The presentation of the new national forest MEDLAND 2020, FFEM initiatives and gap analysis. strategies will, among others, allow to analyze component 3 how the tools mentioned above, and in particular Presentation of the The first part of the session will allow for a deeper the three objectives of the Strategic Framework approach, the understanding of past and present initiatives on for Mediterranean forests, have been taken into achievements and the forest development in the Mediterranean. In Focus 2: initiatives in terms of account in national forest policy orientations. Alain Chaudron needs identified by the this way, achievements of the MED programs, 11.35 adaptation to climate change following projects: GIZ- (AIFM) particularly the capitalization project MEDLAND This second part will be followed by a time for (15 min) PCFM, FORCLIMADAPT, 2020 which brings together 13 projects (including questions and discussion, and finally, a synthesis MEDLAND 2020, FFEM the projects QUALIGOUV, FOR CLIMADAPT, component 1, COST identifying priorities and leads for future actions. SYLVAMED and PROFORBIOMED), of the FP1202 (MaP-FGR) FORESTERRA project of GIZ-CPMF regional Presentation of the project, of the FFEM/FAO/Plan Bleu project, Focus 3: initiatives in terms of en approach, the Contact Enrique Doblas achievements and the the Mediterranean Model Forest Network, 11.50 innovation for forest development the MENFRI project as well as other action in (CREAF) needs identified by current AIFM (15 min) the Mediterranean region will be discussed. projects, in particular the The achievements of these initiatives will be Ms. Marine LOVERO project MENFRI presented thematically, in three axes that stand [email protected] Part 2: Tools and national forestry politics out clearly in the various projects and actions of Presentation of the these recent years: socioeconomical activation plan Jose Maria Solano 12.05 RMFM/CESEFOR for the forestry sector in Spain (15 (MAGRAMA) • Governance, both in terms of forest min) management and the integration in the Mr. Riccardo CASTELLINI Presentation of the 2015-2024 territory, or how the participation of different [email protected] Youssef Saadani 12.20 forestry strategy of Tunisia (15 stakeholders helps to support and boost (DGF Tunisia) sustainable forest development. min)
• Climate change, or how the adaptation Abdelhamid Khaldi to the effects of global change (impact 12.35 Questions, discussion (10 min) assessment, data integration in policy (AIFM) guidelines) supports decision making, long-term planning and sustainable forest Synthesis of the session: priorities development. Patricia Sfeir 12.45 and leads for future actions (15 (SEEDS-INT) • Innovation for Forest Development, through min) the achievements of the project MENFRI in particular.
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Session 3 Abdelhamid Khaldi Senior Forest Researcher in INRGREF (National Institute for Research in Rural Engineering, Water and Forests -Tunisia). Graduated as Agriculture engineer in1984 from Agronomic Institute (Tunisia), GREF Engineer Climate Financing Instruments in (Forestry) from ENGREF (Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, Mediterranean landscapes: Recommendation 5: Create the enabling Eaux et Forêts -France) in 1986, has a PhD (Forestry) from How to increase the mobilization of environment for the development of the Agronomic Institute (Tunisia) in 2009. As researcher, he Climate Financing Instruments to Innovative Financing Mechanisms (IFM): is mainly working on recovering of Mediterranean forest and valorization of forest products (especially NWFP). He support programs and/or projects in • Improve the understanding of these published more than 50 scientific papers during the last forested Mediterranean landscapes mechanisms through capacity development; 10 years. He is teaching notably Silviculture and Forest Ecosystem Management at the Agronomic Institute (Tunisia). • Learn good practices from other regions; He is current President of International Association for Mediterranean Forests (AIFM: http://aifm.org) and IUFRO Organization: FAO, CTFC and ONFI • Communicate widely on the importance International Council member. of forest ecosystems goods and services and the need to raise necessary financial Session 1: Presentation of the mitigation and resources for their sustainable management; adaptation potential in Mediterranean forest sector. • Start designing first initiatives of IFM, such Youssef Saadani is a Chief Engineer of Forestry who has as REDD+ pilot projects in selected areas of been holding the position of Director General of Forestry Chair: the region; under the Ministry of Agriculture in Tunisia since July 2013. Ms. Valérie Merckx Mr. Saadani began his career at the Forestry Administration REDD team in EFI Recommendation 6: Enhance the involvement of Tunisia in 1981 and thereafter he has held several of the private sector in developing the positions of responsibility. Particularly, Mr. Saadani was in Rapporteur: value chains of wood and non-wood forest charge of the management of integrated rural development Mr. Nicolas CHENET products; projects from 1984 to 2008. He also worked for FAO ONFI as a national expert from 1999 to 2001 and returned to The session, focused on the mobilization of the General Directorate of Forestry in 201l. During his Session 2 : Roundtable discussion with potential financial resources from “Climate Finance’’ for professional career he collaborated with several donors, investors/partners on the regional Road Map. Sustainable Management of Forests (SFM), will aid and technical cooperation agencies such as the World give the opportunity to promote the potential Bank, KfW, GIZ, UNDP, FAO, IFPRI and ICARDA for the Chair: of Forested Mediterranean Landscapes for design, implementation and monitoring of rural integrated Ms. Susan Braatz mitigation of and adaptation to Climate Change. development projects and the promotion of local grasroots FAO The session will also give the opportunity to organizations. He is the author of several publications on present the first results of two regional projects participatory approach and collaborative management of Rapporteur: funded by the French Global Environmental natural resources. Ms. Valentina GARAVAGLIA Facility (FFEM) and the German Cooperation FAO Agency (GIZ) on the following key issue: ‘’How to maximize the production of goods and services of Mediterranean forest ecosystems Alain Chaudron, former general engineer of civil Background in the context of global changes’’, and also, to works, water and forests, is member of the board of the promote a portfolio of mitigation pilot projects International Association for Mediterranean Forests The Strategic Line 9 of the “Strategic Framework and forest based adaptation innovative projects (AIFM). This non-governmental organization representing on Mediterranean Forests: policy orientations for in Mediterranean landscapes. the civil society facilitates exchanges between all people integrated management of forest ecosystems associated to Mediterranean natural areas and forests, in Mediterranean landscapes” highlighted the linking them in a network. AIFM is a member of the following innovative instruments with clear links Objectives Collaborative Partnership on Mediterranean Forests (CPMF) to new ‘’Climate Financing Instruments’’: and of the organizing committee of the 4th Mediterranean One key result of this session will be to discuss Forest Week.Previously, Alain has acted for 7 years as the Recommendation 4: Adapt to the with potential investors on ‘’how to implement head of department of Bouches-du-Rhône at the National Mediterranean context Innovative Financing those pilot projects (taking into account Non Forestry Board (ONF) in Aix-en-Provence. Then he worked Mechanisms (IFM) and instruments such Carbon Benefits) with the support of several key for cooperation in Africa and after that he was responsible as Payments for Ecosystem Services “Climate Financing Instruments”. for international forestry affairs at the Ministry of Agriculture (PES) schemes, REDD+ and compensation in Paris where he has contributed mainly to the renewal of mechanisms; activities of Silva Mediterranea Committee and the birth of the CPMF.
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Another key result of this session will be to
know better the interest of potential investors/ How to increase the mobilization of Climate Financing Instruments to support programs partners concerning the regional Road Map and /or projects in forested Mediterranean landscapes adopted in 2013 on “REDD+ and carbon finance in the AFOLU sector’’ and on mitigation pilot projects and forest based adaptation innovative Time Content Speakers projects (including Non Carbon Benefits) in Valérie MERCKS the Mediterranean region by giving them the 8:00 Presentation of the session by the Chair opportunity, during the roundtable, to present EFI their own expectations, rules and constraints. Presentation of the regional context concerning climate change negotiation in the forest sector Nicolas CHENET 8:10 Methodology with a focus on key issues for the Mediterranean ONFI region This session will be divided in two parts, with one Presentation of the regional Road Map on Valentina GARAVAGLIA 8:35 focused on the presentation of the mitigation and ''REDD+ and carbon finance in the AFOLU sector'' Silva Mediterranea adaptation potential in the Mediterranean forest sector (including a presentation of the current 8:45 REDD+ cost-benefit analysis Ludwig LIAGRE dynamic of regional cooperation on REDD+) and one dedicated to an open discussion with key potential investors/partners/donors invited 9:00 Questions from participants and potential investors/partners to attend the IV MFW in Barcelona. Study on ‘’Cork Oak Landscapes, Their Products Contact and Climate Change Policies’’ and short Paulo CANAVEIRA presentation of a mitigation project funded by the FAO Portuguese Carbon Fund Presentation of several potential REDD+ pilot projects and forest based adaptation Mr. Christophe Besacier innovative projects [email protected] • The Senalba/Djelfa Forest in Algeria Abdelmalek ABDELFETTAH 9:15 CTFC • The Maamora Forest in Morocco Adelmoula LEFHAILI Mr. Denis BOGLIO • The Siliana Forest in Tunisia Ameur MOKHTAR [email protected] • The portfolio of forest based adaptation Ludwig LIAGRE projects in the Mediterranean ONFI Presentation of a national approach in Lebanon with the formulation of a NAMA to support the Chadi MOHANNA Mr. Nicolas Chenet national afforestation / reforestation program [email protected] 10:15 Questions from participants and potential investors/partners 10:30 Coffee break Round table with all potential investors/partners on “how to implement the regional Road Map on REDD+ and carbon finance in the AFOLU sector” and discussion on 11:00 the ‘’mitigation and forest based adaptation potential in Mediterranean landscapes’’ (taking into account Non Carbon Benefits) with the support of the several key “Climate Financing Instruments”
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Nicolas CHENET graduated as an Engineer in 2003 from Susan Braatz is a forest ecologist with over 30 years Ecole Centrale Paris. of experience in international forestry, natural resource After working for the private sector in Energy Efficiency management and sustainable development. Her areas of and Renewables Energies related to Climate, he expertise include forest ecology, dryland forestry, climate founded with two other partners a consulting company, change, agroforestry, community forestry, urban forestry, forest ENEA Consulting, in 2007. He joined ONF Andina, the policy and forests and food security. She is currently Team Colombian office of ONF International, in 2013. He Leader for Dryland Forests, Agroforestry and Climate Change became Climate Director of ONF International in March and holds the post of Senior Forestry Officer, Forests and 2014 in Paris, responsible for ONFI for the projects related Climate Change at the Food and Agriculture Organization of to Climate, including FFEM Project. the United Nations based in Rome, Italy. She has worked for FAO since 1991. From 2001-2004, she was seconded to the UN Secretariat in New York as Senior Forest Policy Adviser to the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat. Prior to FAO, Ms. Braatz worked for UNDP as the Chief Technical Advisor for dryland forests field projects in Somalia and in Niger. She worked in Washington, D.C. from 1980-1985 for the U.S. Congress, U.S. State Department, International Institute for Environment and Development and UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme. Valerie Merckx is involved in the development of REDD since 2005: first, as a forestry expert for the French Government in the UNFCCC negotiations; then for the Carolina Gallo Granizo is a Spanish national. She European Commission, and since October 2010 for EFI holds a degree in forest engineering from the Technical as REDD Team leader in the REDD & FLEGT Unit. She University of Madrid. She worked for research assignments leads the EU REDD Facility, hosted by EFI. The Facility on watershed management at the Austral University of supports countries involved in REDD+ as well as FLEGT Chile, and at Technical University of Madrid. She worked in Voluntary Partnership Agreement in improving land-use Togo on the design and establishment of an experimental governance as part of their effort to slow, halt and reverse plantation with native species. During 2012 and 2013 deforestation. Ms Merckx worked previously for the French she collaborated with several European NGOs under a Forestry Commission (ONF) in technical auditing of forest project about REDD+ entitled “Can carbon trade save management plans, as head of a territorial forestry unit and forests?”. Currently she works for the FAO Committee of finally on mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the Mediterranean Forestry Questions – Silva Mediterranea in forestry sector. the FFEM regional “Maximize the production of goods and services of Mediterranean forest ecosystems in the context of global changes”.
Valentina GARAVAGLIA is graduated in Analysis and Management of Natural Resources (2006) and has a PhD Chadi MOHANNA graduated as an Agriculture engineer from the Earth, Environment and Biodiversity School (2010) in 1993 from the Lebanese university, has a PhD from both from the University of Milan. She is currently working the Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique de Rennes for the Secretariat of FAO - Silva Mediterranea, involved in obtained in 1998. supporting the implementation of several activities focused Director of the institute of Oceanography and Fisheries from on Mediterranean forest ecosystems. She is directly 1998 to 2008, from 2008 till present he is the Director of involved in the coordination of the component 1 of the the Rural Development and Natural Resources Directorate project “Maximize the production of goods and services of at the Ministry of Agriculture in Lebanon. This directorate Mediterranean forest ecosystems in the context of global is in charge of forestry, fisheries, pastures, irrigation and changes” funded by the French Global Environment Facility agroindustry. Mr. Mohanna is also Professor at the Saint (FFEM). She is co-author of the first State of Mediterranean Joseph University of Lebanon. Team leader in charge of Forests 2013. Ms. Garavaglia is also working for the Forestry the preparation of the National Forestry Program and of the Research Centre of Arezzo (CRA-SEL) as scientific secretary National Reforestation Program of Lebanon. He is also the of COST Action FP1202 “Strengthening conservation: a key national focal point for UNFF, FAO forest activities, the GIZ- issue for adaptation of marginal/peripheral populations of CPMF project, the FFEM project. forest trees to climate change in Europe (MaP-FGR)”.
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Bilateral/multilateral donors: How to increase the mobilization • Contribute to better coordinate development and implementation of sub-regional and Session with bilateral/multilateral donors of financial resources and how intersectoral programs and/or projects; to build a better coordination for development and implementation • Facilitate identification and promotion of Time Content Speakers common positions on Mediterranean forest of sub-regional and intersectoral programs and/or projects in forested ecosystems and other wooded lands in international fora; Naser TAHBOUB Mediterranean landscapes 14:30 Presentation of the session by the Chair Executive Secretariat of the • Provide a common vision and roadmap to UfM the Committee on Mediterranean Forestry Questions-Silva Mediterranea. Organization: FAO and CTFC Presentation of the regional context for Christophe BESACIER 14:40 cooperation in the Forest Sector FAO Chair: Objective
Mr. Naser Tahboub Union for the Mediterranean One of the key results of this session should be Presentation of respective programs and financial instruments by key donors EU strategy/programs and financial to initiate the ‘’Regional Financing Platform’’ in Rapporteur: the context of the Collaborative Partnership on instruments by 2020 Ms. Magali MAIRE Mediterranean Forests Global Environmental Facility 15:00 FAO strategy/programs and financial instruments Methodology (GEF 6) by 2020 Facilitator: AFD/FFEM programs and financial Mr. Eduardo Rojas-Briales The session with bilateral/multilateral instruments by 2020 FAO donors will be focused on the mobilization 16:00 Coffee break of financial resources and on ‘’how to build a better coordination for development and 16:30 Presentation of respective strategy and programs by key donors AfBD strategy/programs and interest for the Background implementation of sub-regional and intersectoral programs and/or projects in forested forest sector by 2020 The Fourth Mediterranean Forest Week is Mediterranean landscapes’’ (Strategic Line 9). Presentation of key programs of the Center
organized taking into account the key results for Mediterranean Integration (World Bank) of the previous Mediterranean Week held in The session should give the opportunity to BMZ/GIZ strategy/programs and financial Tlemcen, Algeria on March 2013. In this context several key European and Multilateral donors instruments on Mediterranean forest sector several sessions are focused on the level of (including European Commission) to present their by 2020 implementation of the Tlemcen Declaration respective programs and financial instruments in Mediterranean countries and on several potentially of interest for forested Mediterranean AECID strategy/programs and financial expected results of the Strategic Framework landscapes. They should also communicate their instruments on Mediterranean forest sector on Mediterranean Forests (intersectoral key priorities by 2020, based on the framework by 2020 cooperation, financing mechanism instruments, of strategic lines of the Strategic Framework on Other donors interested to contribute in etc.). This Strategic Framework should become Mediterranean Forests. projects on Mediterranean forests and an efficient tool to: landscapes Contacts Discussion on how to increase the • Improve the visibility of the forest sector and mobilization of financial resources and on promote the mobilization of financial and FAO ‘’how to build a better coordination for human resources in the coming years; 17:30 Ms. Christophe Besacier development and implementation of sub- • Provide a consensual framework to [email protected] regional and intersectoral programs/projects improve intersectoral coordination and in forested Mediterranean landscapes’’ fostering partnerships between the various CTFC stakeholders involved in the management of forest ecosystems and other wooded lands Mr. Denis BOGLIO in countries of the region after its integration [email protected] in national policies (public/private);
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Session 5 Naser Tahboub is the Deputy Secretary General for the Environment and Water Division of the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean. Naser Tahboub is from Palestine and he was appointed Deputy Secretary Forest Education & Training General in charge of Environment and Water on September 12th 2014 and joined the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean in October 2014. Organization: University of Lleida (UDL) and Mr. TAHBOUB served at the Ministry of Finance in Palestine Centre Forestier PACA educational projects is also needed, from mere in high-level responsibilities such as Commissioner for counts of graduates finding a job within a certain Taxes and Revenues as well as Assistant of the Minister of Rapporteurs: period of time, to the definition of a package Finance. He was Deputy Minister for National Economy from Ms. Rosario FANLO of learning outcomes/skills/competences and 2009 to 2013. Ms. Cristina Vega-Garcia attitudes that meet requirements of forestry He started his career as a Professor at the Birzeit University UDL labour markets and avoid work-education in Palestine. mismatch1. Facilitators: The generation and transfer of new knowledge in Mr. Ignacio Romagosa forest science and practice and the development CIHEAM of scientific research in the Mediterranean region are currently barred by its fragmentation, Mr. Christian Salvignol its limited means, and occasional outdating and Centre Forestier PACA isolation. The low benefits that Mediterranean Eduardo Rojas-Briales Prof. Dr. Rojas-Briales is forests provide (low yield) to the not-abundant Assistant Director-General of the Food and Agriculture forest-based industries makes difficult to Organization of the United Nations and Chair of the Background attract private or public funds for research. Collaborative Partnership on Forests. Previously, he Novel ways to overcome this situation must be was Vice-Dean of the Agronomy and Forest Faculty of Forest ecosystems in the triangle that links implemented through research partnerships, the Polytechnical University of Valencia. He has served Mediterranean Europe with North Africa and networking, capacity building, higher education previously as a university professor, researcher and director the Middle East provide multiple goods and programs, knowledge transfer and lifelong of a forest owners association, as well as a consultant in services that are crucial to the socioeconomic learning (http://news.efi.int/newsletter/view/ forest policy. He holds a MSc (Freiburg) and PhD (Madrid) development of the Mediterranean rural areas efimed-october-2009/180). The new EU in forestry. Eduardo Rojas-Briales has been on a number and the welfare of its urban populations. Erasmus+ programme (2014-2020) can provide of international boards and panels, amongst others, the Advancing education and vocational training opportunities for cooperation to overcome some EFI Scientific Advisory Board from 1998 to 2002. He is a programmes, scientific knowledge through of these adverse conditions. member of the IUFRO Forest Legislation Working Group. research and fostering innovation is essential In February 2013, Mr Rojas Briales was nominated UN to ensure the sustainable management of Commissioner General for EXPO 2015. Mediterranean forests and to build a knowledge- Objectives based green economy in the region (http://era- platform.eu/era-nets/foresterra/). The session consists of two sections, whose Sharing knowledge and innovation at all objectives are as follows: levels of education and strengthened capacity building between institutions should be a major Section 1: A strategic view on forestry education Magali MAIRE as forestry expert on “Environmental goal in Mediterranean countries, as well as and training systems as providers of skills for the services and economic evaluation” in FAO in the Forest the advancement of the educational paradigm labour market and the green economy Economics, Policy and Products Division (FOE), Ms. MAIRE from teaching to learning with a clear focus is in charge of programs, which contribute to enhancing in improving employability. Biofuels, climate • Objective 1: Promote employment in the the provision of ecosystem services including economic change, social change, new economic models forestry sector, particularly - but not only valuation of forests goods and services, with a specific or new information technologies are just some - among young people, through raised focus on countries in the Mediterranean region. examples of change factors affecting the forestry knowledge, skills and competences within Magali MAIRE is a graduate of the French forestry school sector and labour markets that hence should well-performing E&T Mediterranean- ENGREF – AgroParistech-with a specialization in tropical be impacting all educational levels. Changes focused systems. forestry. She is also a graduate of Laval University’s Faculty in roles and methods are required for problem- of Forestry and Geomatics (Quebec/Canada). oriented, transfer-oriented, research-oriented, Section 2: Current challenges in Mediterranean She has worked in Africa (Niger, Chad) and South America inter- and trans-disciplinary learning that must forestry education and training: the gap between and for many years with partners in the Mediterranean area. involve the consideration of gender, diversity what is learnt and Society expectations. She worked over 15 years in the Office National des Forêts and intercultural competences. A shift in focus and 7 years for the French Ministry of Agriculture at regional for employability to guide curricula and new level in the south of France.
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• Objective 2: To explore opportunities for joint actions/projects in FE&T: for
example, in learning mobility, cooperation Forest Education & Training for innovation and the exchange of good
practices (Strategic partnership, Knowledge Alliances, Sector Skills Alliances, Capacity Time Content Speakers Expected results building in Erasmus+).
The context, the goals and the General presentation of the I. Romagosa IAMZ, Spain programme of the session are 9:00 session and sections Methodology presented
The Session is organized in three conferences and short communications (5 slides/5 min) Section 1: An strategic view on forestry education and training systems as providers of skills for followed by 5 min of questions/comments plus the labour market and the economy a final round table for debate and a conclusions Opening Conference I: An overview of the geographic bullet report. The cartography of training Andreas Bernasconi distribution of the Educational 9:10 centers and universities in BERN (CH) and Training System in the the Mediterranean Mediterranean Target audience Forestry BSc. programmes Rosario Fanlo and Formulation of skills and 9:30 across the Mediterranean Cristina Vega-Garcia competences across universities Academics, teachers, students, researchers, basin Lleida University, Spain in Mediterranean countries professionals, students associations, professional associations, LLL institutions. Advancing the education of Mediterranean forestry and natural resources Academic and cooperation José Guilherme Borges, management planning: Contacts 9:40 ISA, Portugal opportunities provided by joint experience and lessons international programs UDL learned in MEDfOR programme Ms. Cristina Vega-Garcia New challenges in forest [email protected] education in front of climatic George Mitri, The role of the researcher in the 9:50 and social changes: PhD University of future: demands and challenges studies in the Mediterranean Balamand,Lebanon in applied forestry UDL area. Nuria Jovè Ms. Rosario FANLO Education projects of Union Innovation aspects of current and 10:00 Union for the for the Mediterranean [email protected] Mediterranean future projects in UM
Centre Forestier PACA e-Reputation and use of ICTs Samiha Khelifa, Take the An overview of new tools in ICTs 10:10 in education and training MED in education and a study case Mr. Christian Salvignol
[email protected] New programmes being New educational projects at Ignacio. Romagosa IAMZ, 10:20 developed within the bioeconomy IAMZ Spain paradigm
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
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Christian SALVIGNOL Founding director of Centre Forestier de la région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur: forestry training centre (forestry, tree pruning, wood energy): vocational training for young people and for adults, lifelong learning. He was Chair of forest and wood interbranch association of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur from 1995 Forest Education & Training to 2005. Mr. Salvignol has been also Chair of the French Forestry Training Centres Network since 1981, representing Time Content Speakers Expected results 85% of forestry training centres in France. Founding chair of EDUFOREST in 1998 (European Network of Forestry Training Centres). He is Chair of Joint FAO/UNECE/ILO Experts Network to Section 2: Current challenges in Mediterranean forestry education: the gap between what is implement SFM since 2005, Team of Specialists on Green learnt and society expectations Jobs in the Forest Sector. Development of an innovative remote control system for forestry skidders 1986 - 1 Opening Conference II: A discussion on VET & LLL new European patent. Training and Long Life needs and demands 11:00 Learning in Forestry. Christian Salvignol Centre Key factors of successful Networking: Eduforest - Forestier PACA, France European Network of networking and capacity building among Forestry Training Centres Forestry Training Centres A discussion on actions needed Rosario FANLO is an Associate professor at the Lleida 11:20 Gender in Mediterranean Heidrun Ströbert-Beloud to facilitate access by women to University, Spain. She is teaching in BSc. degree (Forestry Forestry GIZ the educational and training and Rangeland sciences) and in MSc. degree (Grazing system and professional practice management in Mediterranean forests, Use of livestock ECC (European Chainsaw to prevent wildfires, and Tools to maintain biodiversity in Users) – European Rosa Ricart A study case on cooperation grasslands). 11:30 Certificate of Competences, CTFC, Spain projects and their impact At international level, she is coordinating 3 ALFA (EU) an example of cooperation projects. Jordi Romà Spanish An analysis of changing demands She has more than 20 years’ experience working in Erasmus Agreement between program, as students and teachers mobility coordinator and 11:40 Learning & Labor: Is it there? Foresters Professional on the professional field over Association recent years in forestry learning networks. She published more than 40 scientific papers. The impact of student The role of forestry student’s Manuel Lopez Parrondo, associations on governance, 11:50 associations IFSA, UPMadrid, Spain academic life, mobility, networking and employment Closing Conference: M. Duque/ Spanish Learning mobility, Cooperation for 12:00 The new European representative Erasmus + innovation and the exchange of programs: Erasmus+ Program good practices Identification of common issues Cristina VEGA-GARCIA is an Associate Professor at different levels of education and Deputy Director for International Relations at the Round Table for general and training to improve insertion Engineering School of Agrifood and Forestry Science of the in the labor market and the green 12:20 discussion about the session All participants University of Lleida (UdL), Spain. She is Coordinator of the economy: Bullet-type document and conclusions MSc. European Forestry Erasmus Mundus at the UdL since identifying priorities to be targeted 2009. She is teaching in BSc. degree (Forest Management, by the Mediterranean FE&T Landscape Ecology) and in MSc. degree (Sustainable forest System management, Mediterranean landscape ecology, Remote 13:00 LUNCH sensing of forest dynamics, Wildfire causes & Human risk analyses). She is member of the development committee of the Bachelor and Master-level programs in Forest Sciences in the framework of the Bologna process (2009) and Coordinator of the Forest Engineering degree (2007-2010). She is currently involved in two TEMPUS projects on vocational training and qualification frameworks. Her main field of research is Fire and Forest management.
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1-Land use and anthropisation of the 10- Rebuild woods and green systems in 19- Forests: What socioeconomic devel- 28- Cork oak stands in the forest of Hafir- forest landscape upstream from Hammam Lombardy’s Plain: the experience of the opment for a sustainable development in Zariffet (Province of Tlemcen): floristic Boughrara Dam (Orania, Algeria) Carpaneta farm Algeria? aspects and degradation Redda Aboura Francesca Ossola Radia Bouchaour Mohammed Ali Benabdallah Algeria Italy Algeria Algeria
2- Climate effect on tree-ring widths of 11- Biodiversity and ethnobotany in 20- Enhance local development in Tuni- 29- Impact of the spatiotemporal dynam- Fagus orientalis in the Caspian Forests of Algeria (comparison between Tlemcen’s sian forest areas: new culture of edible ics of land use on Aleppo pine forests Northern Iran model forest and biosphere reserve of mushrooms in the Daira of Ain El Hdjar, Province of Malek Haghshenas Djurdjura) Slama Awatef Saida, Algeria Iran Ghenima Ghemouri Tunisia Djamel Anteur Algeria Algeria 3- Local development and fire risk 21- Forestry Innovation in the Mediterra- management in interface area: a growing 12- Antioxidant activity of the crude ex- nean biomass supply chains: the INFRES 30- Analysis of the invasiveness of and specific constraint in Mediterranean tracts of Tunisian wild Foeniculum vulgare project in Catalonia Acacia mearnsii (De Wild) in the cork territories? roots Judit Rodríguez Bayo oak forest from El Kala National Park Serge Peyre Marwa Khammassi Spain (North-Eastern Algeria) France Tunisia Arifa Beddiar 22- Edible mushrooms, a resource for the Algeria 13- Antioxidant activity of the forest spe- Mediterranean: Productions, mycosilvicul- 4- Bridging effectiveness and cies Pistacia lentiscus, Phillyrea angustifo- sustainability in afforestation/ reforestation ture and associated economy in Spanish 31- Evaluation of the health status of the lia and Globularia alypum from the Djebel forests in the Mediterranean: Sustaffor project Zaghouan National Park public cork oak forest of Edough (An- Jaime Coello Gómez José-Antonio Bonet naba), Northeast Algeria Wafa Ben Brahim Spain Spain Tunisia Hamza Saadi Algeria 23- Social Capital in the design and im- 5- The importance of the implementation 14- Exploitation of forest medicinal plants of sustainable labels in forestry in plementation of a wild mushroom picking 32- Desertification processes on the in Western Algeria (Impact and Implica- permit in Poblet (Catalonia, Spain) Argentina tions on forests and the population) southern slopes of the region of Tlemcen Clara Minaverry Elena Górriz (Western Algeria) Miara Mohamed Djamel Spain Argentina Algeria Nouria Hachemi Algeria 6- Integration of Tamentout forest (North- 15- Food Security of Local Communities 24- Diagnosis of the evolution of mountain eastern Algeria) in pastoralism in the Mediterranean Region of Turkey areas in the northwest of Algeria through 33- The governance of urban and periur- Farida Benia Sezgin Özden the integrated and sustainable develop- ban forests: the experience of the EMoN- Algeria Turkey ment approach FUr LIFE+10/ENV/IT/399 Project Sabiha Bouchaour-Djabeur Enrico Calvo 7- The obvious links between degradation 16- Contribution of non-timber forest Algeria Italy factors and the dynamics of forestry products (NTFPs) to the sustainable de- groups in the region of Tlemcen velopment of rural communities 25- Role of sacred forests in the conserva- 34- Training and knowledge transfer for Ikram Benmehdi Djamel Kholkhal tion of natural and cultural heritage from the renewal and enhancement of forestry Algeria Algeria northern Morocco in Menorca Houda Ben Salah Agnès Canals Bassedas 8- Proposal for the sustainable 17- Seeking the best management prac- Morocco Spain exploitation and trade of two non-timber tices to increase fungal production and forest products in Sétif Province, Algeria diversity and prevent forest fires in Cistus 26- Beyond wood: the state of non-wood 35- Building-up a participatory govern- Mouna Khaznadar ladanifer scrublands forest products in Mediterranean Europe ance framework for the sustainable devel- Algeria María Hernández-Rodríguez Irina Prokofieva opment of forests and rural territories in Spain Spain Lebanon (EU-EuropeAid Action) 9- Effects of overgrazing on the Iria Soto Embodas hydrodynamic properties of soils: the case 18- Jasmine Revolution and the conser- 27- Design and laying out of paths in semi Spain of Zerdeb cork oak forest (Algeria) vation of natural resources: The case of mountainous forest area for better man- Mostafia Boughalem Bouhedma National Park agement and development of the area Algeria Iria Soto Embodas Vasileios Drosos Spain Greece
64 BOOKLET IV MFW 65 36- Support for vocational training in sus- 46- Djellal Chergui, a Saharan Atlas pine 55- Canopy structure and competition in tainable forestry (SUSFOR) forest at risk: status and ecological diag- cork oak stands: towards a better forest Jorge Alcázar Montero nosis (Djelfa, Algeria) decision-making in North Western Tunisia Spain Sabrina Amraoui Boutheina Stiti Algeria Tunisia 37- Erasmus Mundus MSc. in Mediter- ranean Forestry and Natural Resources 47- Modelling the diameter growth of 56- Comparing conventional, terrestrial Management (MEDFOR) Quercus ilex subsp. ilex L. in the North- LiDAR and photogrammetric approaches Jose Guilherme Borges East of the Iberian Peninsula by ANN to conduct forest inventories Portugal Iris Pilar Monfort Bague Felipe Bravo Spain Spain 38- Early forest fire detection from a satel- 48- Protocols and standards applicable lite image landsat7 ETM+ 57- Monitoring two REINFFORCE network for sustainable forest management: exam- Souleyman Benkraouda arboreta adaptation to climate change and ples in Argentina Algeria biotic factors Teresa Adela Gally Hala Shahin Argentina 39- Importance of biological regulators in Portugal controlling pests in protected forests Safia Sebti 49- The causes for regressive evolution of 58- Study of plant biodiversity in forest Algeria plant structures in the region of Tlemcen landscapes from the eastern coastal re- (Western Algeria) gions of Algeria in a perspective of sus- 40- Southern Spain: distribution and Ikram Benmehdi tainable development biodiversity in Tamarix spp. in extreme Algeria Nesrine Rouini environments Algeria Anna De Luca 50- Phytoecological study of Pistacia Italy lentiscus stands in the coastal area of 59- Quick Urban Forest - a project to Honaine Region, Province of Tlemcen restore degraded areas in Mediterranean 41- Monitoring of forests against fires: a (western Algeria) cities major preventive action Ikram Hachemi Susana Dominguez Lerena Ouahiba Meddour-Sahar Algeria Spain Algeria 51- Application of remote sensing with 60- Analysis of the agents and causes of 42- Analyzing wildfire exposure of the for- ALSAT-1 data in survey of forest fires and deforestation and degradation of Sénalba ests in Eltxumendi and Ezkaba mountains its impact in forest ecosystem in the north forest in Algeria as part of the FFEM of central Navarra (Spain) of Algeria project Fermín J. Alcasena Urdíroz Ahmed Zegrar Khatir Benhanifia Spain Algeria Algeria 43- Integrated research on forest resil- 52- Contribution to the study of Tetraclinis ience and management in the Mediterra- articulata stands on the coast of the Ho- 61- Measuring telomere length in plant nean (INFORMED) naine region, Province of Tlemcen, West- and tree species François Lefèvre ern Algeria Sacha Khoury France Ismahene Cherif Italy Algeria 44- Treated Waste Water: a new resource for multipurpose forestry in the peri-urban 53- Bench terracing system: Soil and wa- environment of Mediterranean towns ter conservation in semi-arid forests Paolo De Angelis Khaled Bouchama Italy Algeria
45- Adaptive forest management through 54- Monitoring of Tlemcen (Algeria) cork environmental monitoring indicators oak forests through birds as indicators Jose Domingo Yerbes Noureddine Mostefai Spain Algeria
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