REPORT OF THE MID-TERM WORKSHOP COMPONENT 1 FFEM FFEM PROJECT "MAXIMIZE THE PRODUCTION OF GOODS AND SERVICES OF MEDITERRANEAN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CHANGES" COMPONENT 1 "PRODUCTION OF DATA AND DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS TO SUPPORT DECISION AND MANAGEMENT OF VULNERABLE MEDITERRANEAN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS AFFECTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ABILITY OF THESE FOREST ECOSYSTEMS TO ADAPT TO GLOBAL CHANGE" Tunis, Tunisia 2-5 June 2014 1 This report was drafted by Sophie Valley (AIFM) under the LoA of 26.04.2013 signed between AIFM and FAO. It was then validated by team of FAO (V. Garavaglia and C. Besacier). 2 Table of contents ACRONYMS .............................................................................................................................................. 4 PURPOSE AND AGENDA OF THE WORKSHOP IN TUNIS .......................................................................... 5 SESSION1: FIRST RESULTS AND WORKPLAN 2014 .................................................................................. 8 PILOT SITE OF SENALBA (ALGERIA) .......................................................................................................... 8 PILOT SITE OF JABAL MOUSSA (LEBANON) ........................................................................................... 11 PILOT SITE OF MAÂMORA (MOROCCO) ................................................................................................ 15 PILOT SITE OF SILIANA (TUNISIA) .......................................................................................................... 17 PILOT SITE OF DÜZLERÇAMI (TURKEY) .................................................................................................. 20 SESSION 2: STATE OF THE ART OF CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON MEDITERRANEAN FOREST SPECIES IN THE PILOT SITES OF COMPONENT 1 ................................................................................................. 24 SESSION 3: STATE OF THE ART ON STUDIES/RESEARCH FOR THE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN MEDITERRANEAN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS: FIRST RESULTS AND WORKPLAN 2014 ......................................................................................................... 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ANNEXE 1: AGENDA OF THE WORKSHOP IN TUNIS .............................................................................. 42 ANNEXE 2: METHODOLOGY "IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF NATIVE TREE SPECIES IN LEBANON: POTENTIAL PROJECTIONS BY 2050" .................................................................. 43 3 Acronyms ADMJ: Development Association Menzel Jemil (Tunisia) AIFM: International Association for Mediterranean Forests ASIS: Agricultural Stress Index System (Water Stress Indicator) APJM: Association for the Protection of Jabal Moussa (Lebanon) CTS: Center of Space Techniques (Algeria) DGF: General Directorate of Forests FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FFEM: French Global Environment Facility GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility IPCC: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change GIZ: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Technical Cooperation) IFN: National Forest Inventory INRA: National Institute for Agricultural Research LoA: Letter of Agreement (MOU) MENA: Middle-East and North-Africa MoA: Ministry of Agriculture (Ministry of Agriculture of Lebanon) NDVI: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index CPMF: Collaborative Partnership on Mediterranean Forests UNDP - United Nations Development Programme PSI: Seasonality Precipitation Index (seasonal rainfall) FGR: Forest Genetic Resources GIS: Geographic Information System SPI: Standardized Precipitation Index (standardized precipitation index) EU: European Union VITO: Vision on Technology 4 Purpose and agenda of the workshop in Tunis Valentina Garavaglia (FAO - Silva Mediterranea) I) PARTICIPANTS LIST Country Participants Institution Contact Wissam Toubal thematic referent [email protected] Algeria Gacemi Mohamed El Amine national expert [email protected] [email protected] Maya Mohanna thematic referent [email protected] Lebanon Miguel Ángel Navarrete Poyatos national expert [email protected] Salim Roukoz national expert [email protected] Chadi Mohanna focal point [email protected] Mustapha Bengueddour thematic referent [email protected] Bakhiyi Belghazi national expert [email protected] Morocco Fouad Mounir national expert [email protected] Fayçal Benchekroun focal point [email protected] Ameur Mokhtar thematic referent [email protected] Kamel Tounsi national expert [email protected] Tunisia Ali Aloui national expert [email protected] Saleh El Mensi focal point [email protected] Sükran Gökdemir thematic referent [email protected] Murat Turkes national expert [email protected] Turkey Nebiye Musaoglu national expert [email protected] [email protected] Ayse Ayata Kelten focal point [email protected] DGF Tunisia Youssef Saadani [email protected] GIZ Tunisia Abdelmajid Jemaï [email protected] INRA Nadine Wazen [email protected] AIFM Sophie Vallée [email protected] Christophe Besacier [email protected] FAO Valentina Garavaglia [email protected] II) SUMMARY OF THE FFEM PROJECT The overall objective of the FFEM project is to encourage stakeholders to manage and restore Mediterranean forests in order to ensure a sustainable supply of goods and services through those ecosystems. The project focuses on five major components that meet five key objectives: Include climate change impacts in forest policy by providing information and technical tools related to vulnerability and adaptive capacity of Mediterranean forests component 1 Assess the economic and social value of goods and services provided by Mediterranean forest ecosystems to support decision and promote integration among sectoral policies component 2 5 Improve participative governance approaches at territorial scale through stakeholder participation in the development and implementation of strategies to reduce human pressures on ecosystems, while ensuring users that the goods and services on which they depend can be maintained over the long term component 3 Maximize and valorise the mitigation potential of Mediterranean forests (carbon sinks) through the development of methodological tools to value local efforts of protection and restoration of ecosystems component 4 Strengthen coordination and exchanges of experiences among stakeholders in the region (coordination and communication through the CPMF) by opening a dialogue on common guidelines for adaptation and mitigation of climate change in the forestry sector in the Mediterranean component 5 Each component occurs in three stages to provide concrete answers to forest managers, based on pilot sites, while providing a strategic and political vision. Step 1: capitalization of existing data and studies and production of a synthesis; Step 2: focus on some pilot sites and implementation of activities in the five countries; Step 3: exchanges at the regional level and communication at the international level. Pilot site for Component 1 Component 2 Component 3 Component 4 country Algeria Djelfa/Senalba Chrea Chrea Djelfa/Senalba Lebanon Jabal Moussa Jabal Moussa Jabal Moussa Tout le pays Morocco Maâmora Maâmora Maâmora Maâmora Tunisia Siliana - Barbara Barbara and Siliana Turkey Düzlerçami Düzlerçami Düzlerçami Düzlerçami III) PRESENTATION OF ACTIVITIES PLANNED FOR COMPONENT 1 AND MAIN OBJECTIVES OF THE WORKSHOP OF TUNIS Regarding Component 1 "Production of data and development of tools to support decision and management of vulnerable Mediterranean forest ecosystems affected by climate change and the ability of these forest ecosystems to adapt to global change" the 5 priority actions include: Literature review and synthesis on the impacts of climate change on Mediterranean forest ecosystems and key genetic resources; Review and synthesis on activities implemented to adapt Mediterranean forests to climate change in the region; Analysis of vulnerability and adaptation capacities of Mediterranean forest ecosystems to climate change impacts in five pilot sites; Capitalization of outcomes and elaboration of tools to support decision in terms of adaptation to climate change for forest managers and policy makers; Exchanges of experiences between countries, including countries involved in the project ForClimAdapt, through a regional workshop. 6 Regarding the vulnerability analysis of Mediterranean forest ecosystems to the impacts of climate change on five pilot sites the stages are the following: workshop to define and adopt a common methodology (Solsona,