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Committee on Mediterranean Forestry Questions - Silva Mediterranea

The Secretariat

The Secretariat of the Committee of the Mediterranean Forestry Questions - Silva Mediterranea coordinates the activities of Member Countries and animates the dialogue and involvement of Member Countries through their focal points.  

The secretariat is not a bureaucratic organ. It is run by all its Members who collectively support it by rotating personnel irregularly between its Members. 

For the period of 2020 to 2025, the Secretariat was held by a nominated unit from the Council of Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), the leading Italian research organization dedicated to agri-food supply chains under the supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture, food sovereignty and forests (MASAF) (Ministero dell'Agricoltura, della sovranità alimentare e delle foreste).

 

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Valentina Garavaglia is expert on natural resources management. She has a PhD from the Earth, Environment and Biodiversity School and MSc in Analysis and Management of Natural Resources from the University of Milan. Valentina is currently working with the FAO Secretariat of Silva Mediterranea and in the last years she has been collaborating with many other teams of the FAO Forestry Department. She was the scientific secretary of Cost Action FP1202 on marginal/peripheral populations of forest trees (2012-2016) at the Forestry Research Center of Arezzo (Italy). Prior to that, she has worked as researcher at the University of Milan.
Lucia Rivera Lima

Lucia Rivera Lima is an anthropologist and sociologist and holds a master’s degree in development studies from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has worked with international organizations such as Slow Food, IFAD, ILO, and FAO. Specializing in cultural and socioeconomic dimensions of food systems -particularly of forestry and coffee- Lucia has worked extensively on youth employment and engagement as well as Indigenous Peoples’ rights. Currently, she works at the Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) and the Silva Mediterranea secretariat of FAO.

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Irene De Angeli holds a master’s degree in Global Security Policies: Environment, Energy, and Conflicts from Roma Tre University and a bachelor’s in Political, Social, and International Sciences from the University of Bologna. She has worked with Europa Verde as Press Officer and campaign coordinator, and has been Youth Ambassador for WeWorld Onlus, representing Italy in the EU-funded People & Planet project. More recently, she worked as a financial consultant at L4V – Looking for Value, supporting public and third-sector organizations. Irene is currently working as an intern supporting the Silva Mediterranea Secretariat and the Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism (FLRM) team.