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Oikos: Restoring the Resilience of Mediterranean landscapes to wildfires
01/12/2023
Istituto Oikos and a team of experts from Italy, France, Greece and Montenegro have produced several papers and publications to share guidelines for the adoption of fire-smart landscape management practices in order to address a challenging issue: reducing wildfire risk in the Mediterrane...
The Mediterranean Youth Taskforce’s journey at the World Food Forum: empowering local youth for agrifood transformation
27/11/2023
The World Food Forum (WFF) flagship event is a global gathering that seeks to address one of the most urgent challenges facing humanity: ensuring food security for all. In this global movement, a delegation of the <...
Joint session of the UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry and FAO European Forestry Commission held in November 2023
27/11/2023
The joint session of the Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the European Forestry...
The second World Forum on Urban Forests in Washington, DC, October 2023
27/11/2023
Building on the success of its first edition in Mantua, Italy, in 2018, the second World Forum on Urban Forests (WFUF), convened in Washington, DC (the United States of America) on 16–20 October 2023, on the theme “Greener, Healthier and Happier Cities for All”. Its primary goal was to br...
Models from the Mediterranean region to build resilient ecosystems in forest restoration
27/11/2023
The Twenty-Sixth Session of the Near East Forestry and Range Commission (NEFRC) was held from 10 to 13 September 2023 in Amman, Jordan, jointly with the Third Session of the Committee on Forestry (COFO) Working Group on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems.
In conjunction...
Branching out: the role of youth in advancing agroforestry practices
27/11/2023
The World Food Forum flagship event 2023, held on 16–20 October in Rome, Italy, marked a significant turning point in global agriculture and food system transformation. Hiba Mohammad and Satia Ras, two representativ...
Young Leadership Programme 2023 at the European Forest Institute Mediterranean Facility
27/11/2023
The Mediterranean region consists of multifunctional, human-made mosaic landscapes. These landscapes have been shaped by agriculture but also by the sociocultural practices and values of the local communities who inhabit them. However, the region has been affected by land abandonment, dri...
Capacity-building workshop on monitoring tools for forest and landscape restoration in the Mediterranean region
27/11/2023
Based on a bioclimatic definition of the Mediterranean region, the area includes more than 25 million hectares (ha) of forests and about 50 million ha of other wooded land. Mediterranean forests are part of multifaceted landscapes marked by centuries of human activity. Despite an increase in f...
October 2023 meeting of the joint organizing committee for the Eighth Mediterranean Forest Week
27/11/2023
The joint organizing committee of the Eighth Mediterranean Forest Week (MFW) and the Twenty-Fifth Session of Silva Mediterranea convened for its second meeting on 13 October 2023, in Rome, Italy. The meeting, which included remote attendance via Zoom, led to crucial decisions regardin...
Trees and Forests Facing Global Change: Mediterranean Countries at the Forefront - the Parmenides X Conference
27/11/2023
Mediterranean forests represent a global biodiversity hotspot, with a high level of endemism linked to a specific combination of geographical, topographical and climatic factors. Today, the region is facing several challenges, compounded by global changes. Population growth in coastal and urba...