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FRIDA KRIFCA TAKES OVER THE ROLE OF PRESIDENT OF THE CIHEAM GOVERNING BOARD

On 1 April 2023, Frida Krifca took office as President of CIHEAM after being appointed by the organization’s Board in November 2022.

Commenting on her new position, Frida Krifca said:

“Today I officially take on the role of President of CIHEAM. (…) CIHEAM is involved in 90 transnational projects, mobilizing nearly 50 countries, and involving more than 600 different organizations and research centres in agriculture. It is a great privilege and a huge responsibility of Mediterranean countries that mandated for the first time an Albanian and for the first time a woman, in the position of the President of this important organization (…). My main objective will be to reposition the Mediterranean region at the centre of the political agendas of the different countries. The reasons are economic, such as trade and agriculture, food and non-food products and market access. We have a long way to go and I am very honoured to undertake this journey with you.”

-Mrs Frida KRIFCA

Albanian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development

President of the CIHEAM Governing Board

Do you want to know more about the vision of Mrs Krifca for the CIHEAM? 

Watch the video of her full speech on our YouTube channel.

BIOGRAPHY OF FRIDA KRIFCA

Mrs. Frida Krifca is the Minister of Agriculture of Albania as of September 2021.

She has 22 years of experience in administration and management, with a special focus on the development and strengthening of the financial sector, use of financial services and business development, meeting national, international, and international economic, legal, and structural objectives.

During the period July 2017 – September 2021, she held the position of General Director in the Agency for Agricultural and Rural Development where she was responsible for the administration of state budget support schemes in support of farmers, ensuring transparency and guaranteeing control mechanisms in investments and payments.

During the period November 2020 – February 2021, Mrs. Krifca was a Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Agribusiness, Agricultural University of Tirana in the Rural Development Course, for the subject Rural Economics.

In the period October 2013 – July 2017, Mrs. Krifca held the position of Director General of USAID Financial Services Voluntary Bodies, where she provided technical assistance to public financial institutions and has identified, developed, and managed numerous development, financial, fiscal, and legal projects in Albania and other countries.

During the 151st Meeting of the CIHEAM Governing Board, she was elected President of the CIHEAM Governing Board, taking duties on April 1st, 2023.

On Friday 17 March, two delegations from CIHEAM member countries were welcomed by Hatem Bellouchette and Thierry Dupeuble during their stay at the Institute.

The delegation from the Lebanese University of Beirut, with whom we are co-managing the DATEM master’s program, was composed of Salem Darwich, Johnny Farah, and Salwa Tohme, who came to discuss with the IAMM teaching staff the modalities of student evaluation for the coming academic years.

The second delegation came from Egypt and was composed of Prof. Ashraf El Sayed El Arabi Abdel Fattah, former Minister of Planning and current President of the Institute of National Planning (INP), and two of his collaborators, Dr. Maryam Raof Farag Rezk, Head of the Modelling Unit, and Fadi Mohamed Hisham Abdelradi Khalaf, Associate Professor in Agricultural Economics. Discussions focused on the prospects for developing scientific relations between the IAMM and the INP, particularly in economic modeling, and in contributing to the reflections of the MED-Amin network on improving the resilience of cereal sectors in the Mediterranean.

Vacancy: post-doctoral position in quantitative environmental geography/geomatics

Within the scope of the GRANULAR Horizon Europe project.

CIHEAM Montpellier is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to develop novel indicators and conduct analyses related to climate neutrality and food systems in EU rural areas.

Job specifications

  • Starting date: April 2023
  • Contract duration: fixed term contract of 24 months
  • Full-time
  • Location: Montpellier, with occasional travels in different EU member states

Context

GRANULAR (Giving Rural Actors Novel data and re-Useable tools to Lead public Action in Rural areas) is a newly awarded project under the Horizon Europe programme gathering 23 European partners (academic institutes, international organisations, NGOs, rural networks, and local authorities).
This four-year project will generate new insights for characterising rural diversity based on a multi-actor and interdisciplinary approach. Insights from Multi-Actor Labs (MALs) will help modellers to generate novel datasets using a wide range of methods and data, such as remote sensing, crowd-sourced data, mobile phone data and web scraping. This will then be combined with a variety of existing institutional data to derive indicators to measure resilience, well-being, quality of life and attractiveness in rural areas.
GRANULAR will directly support concrete policies, by informing rural action with the opportunities and requirements in terms of data-collection methods and indicator development to enhance and support the co-creation and co-learning with multiple actors in rural areas. After ensuring the scalability of the results, datasets, data visualisation and other tools will be made available on a dedicated platform designed by, and for, rural actors and rural policy-makers.
Coordinated by CIHEAM Montpellier, GRANULAR gathers 23 European partners (academic institutes, international organizations, NGOs, rural networks, and local authorities).

Role

The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to developing conceptual frameworks and to derive spatially-explicit indicators and metrics1 on climate-neutrality of rural communities and on territorial food systems. The aim is to develop frameworks capable of linking different scales (conceptually) and of connecting spatial datasets and indicators to support spatially explicit decision-making in rural areas.

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On March 1st, MR. Teodoro MIANO took up his duties at the headquarters of the intergovernmental organization in Paris

During the 151st Governing Board meeting of the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) held at the Institut Océanographique of Paris (France) on 18 November 2022, Mr. Teodoro Miano was elected Secretary General of the Intergovernmental Organisation.

READ THE BIOGRAPHY OF MR. TEODORO MIANO

Teodoro Miano has been involved in Mediterranean agriculture, sustainable food systems, environmental protection, and agricultural development for more than 30 years. 

Teodoro Miano is a Full Professor of Agricultural Chemistry at the Department of Soil, Plant, and Food Science of the University Aldo Moro of Bari (Italy). He is an agronomist and started his academic career after graduating from the University of Basilicata (Italy) in 1987. In 1992, he entered as an Associate Professor at the University of Bari, where he later became a full professor in 2001. He pursued his research in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, and Norway. Teodoro Miano has been President of the Italian Society of Agricultural Chemistry, President of the European Soil Systems Sciences Division of the European Geosciences Union, and President of the International Humic Substances Society (IHSS). He has been involved in various committees at the Ministry of Agriculture in Italy, has organized more than 50 national and international events, participated and coordinated several research projects at the local, national, and international levels, and has been involved in several evaluation committees and editorial boards of international journals. Lastly, he was also nominated Deputy Dean for International Relationships at the University Aldo Moro of Bari (Italy).

In 1996, Teodoro Miano initiated a collaboration with CIHEAM Bari, by participating in their educational programs and in research and cooperation projects. He has been a senior consultant in a CIHEAM Bari Task Force and was nominated member of the CIHEAM Scientific Advisory Board, becoming President in the second term of office. In 2018, he was selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to become Italian Delegate to the CIHEAM Governing Board, where he also acted as one of the Vice Presidents. On November 2022, during the 151st Meeting of the CIHEAM Governing Board, he is elected Secretary-General of the CIHEAM, taking up function from March 2023.

Born on July 24, 1959, Teodoro Miano is married and speaks Italian, English, and French.

LAB4SUPPLY Project – First LIVING-LAB meeting on the development of the Fig sector in the Gard

In the framework of the PRIMA LAB4SUPPLY project (www.lab4supply.eu), CIHEAM Montpellier organized the first meeting of the Living Lab on the fig sector in Vézénobres, at the Maison de la Figue, on February 14th 2023.

This meeting was supported and attended by the Mayor of Vézénobres, the Agglomération of Alès and the Chambre d’Agriculture of the Gard department.

The entire sector was present at this working meeting, and farmers, producers, distributors, wholesalers, and small traders exchanged views with researchers, political leaders and decision-makers, and consumer representatives.

The objective of this first meeting was to consolidate the group of key actors in the development of the sector, to present the first results of the analysis of the sector in the Gard, to share knowledge and ideas for innovation, and to launch a debate on the assets, needs, and marketing opportunities for the fig.

Following this meeting, an action plan will be presented and the first training courses and workshops for the sustainable development of the sector will begin to take shape.

The meeting also counted on the participation of students of the Master 2 CGAT of the CIHEAM-IAMM, who for several weeks studied the different farms of the Gard, met fig growers and worked on the innovations of the sector and brought a crossed glance on the sector in the Mediterranean.

The day was preceded by a guided tour of the Vézénobres conservatory orchard and the Maison de la Figue de la main of the Centre de Pomologie in Alès.

🔎 More about the LAB4SUPPLY project

The PRIMA project LAB4SUPPLY and the development of the fig sector in the Gard and in the Mediterranean is funded by the Euro-Mediterranean PRIMA program and the French National Research Agency (ANR). CIHEAM Montpellier is the French partner.

Contact: Maite Puig de Morales (puigdemorales@iamm.fr)

 

FIRST MEETING OF THE CIHEAM CORPORATE WORKING GROUP (CWG) ON FORESTRY

The first meeting of the CIHEAM’s Corporate Working Group (CWG) on Sustainable Management of Mediterranean Forests was held at CIHEAM Bari from February 1 to 3, 2023.

Magali Maire (CIHEAM Montpellier), Gaetano Ladisa (CIHEAM Bari), Chariton Kalaitzidis (CIHEAM Chania), Antonio Lopez-francos (CIHEAM Zaragoza) et Julio Urruela (CIHEAM Paris), focal points of the 4 institutes and the General Secretariat, met in a view to develop an action plan as part on the CIHEAM’s strategy on Sustainable Management of Mediterranean Forests.

Giovanbattista Dedato, FAO Senior Forestry Expert of the Silva Mediterranea Secretariat, also attended the meeting to discuss further areas of collaboration between the two institutions.

Contact: maire@iamm.fr

🔎 Publication on the CIHEAM BARI’s website

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