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The outlook for 2023 winter crops production has been deteriorating rapidly in western Mediterranean countries since the publication of the first MED-Amin Early Harvest Forecasting Bulletin at the end of March.

The seasonal drought is hampering crops in most of the Maghreb area, in particular in Tunisia with crop failure potentials. In Spain and Portugal, the situation has critically deteriorated, with entire regions suffering from lack of rainfalls and soil moisture (with temperatures significantly warmer than seasonal average).

All this will be closely monitored by JRC MARS and MED-Amin and updated in the May Bulletin. In this issue, you will find also the reports of the latest JRC MARS Bulletins on Europe and Türkiye.

In Greece, winter crops are developing fairly well so far. The sowing of winter cereals started 20 days before the average […]

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After the co-design of the first workshop entitled “Mobilising your research results in teaching-Invitation to active pedagogies” in June 2022, the CSIP and the CIHEAM Montpellier are collaborating once again to offer you an IDEON workshop, on Thursday 25 May 2023 from 1.30 to 4.30 pm at the Institut de Botanique – Université de Montpellier.

Animated by:

• Brigitte Lundin, Head of the Pedagogical Innovation Support Centre,
• Céline Avenel, Pedagogical Coordinator of the Centre de Soutien aux Innovations Pédagogiques.
• Myriam Kessari, Teacher-researcher, CIHEAM-IAMM

We have all experienced long, drawn-out oral presentations at conferences! The aim of this workshop is to provide techniques to help you boost your scientific communication.

For whom?

• teachers-researchers,
• researchers,
• doctoral students.

Why?

• To develop your scientific communication skills,
• to discover techniques to identify the “essence” of your message,
• to create an effective, impactful, and interactive pitch.

Finally, the workshop will aim to discover methods you can use in writing (a paper or an article) and in the oral presentation itself, but also in your pedagogical thinking and thus transfer them into teaching situations with your students.

How do you do it?

• Acquire a state of mind rather than techniques.
• The workshop is based on interactivity, interdisciplinarity, and learning by doing.
• In short, discover by doing and by creating together, whatever your field of research may be.

Number of participants: 20 maximum. If there are less than 9 participants, the workshop will be cancelled.

The workshops are free of charge, but registration is mandatory.

More information

Registration

The second SCOOP seminar (SSE and Food Systems Cooperatives) of the UMR MOISA will takes you on a journey through the SSE on Tuesday, May 9th from 2pm to 5pm at the Institut Agro Building 11 room 101, and in hybrid mode, on the theme “Institutional contexts and constraints for SSE organizations – A world tour in 180 minutes”

With as speakers :

• Nadine RICHEZ-BATTESTI, Aix Marseille University SSE Europe: “How do contexts play a role in the development of the SSE?”
• Yasmine BOUGHZALA, Higher Institute of Management of Tunis, “Social entrepreneurship in Tunisia: its constraints in an unconsolidated institutional context”.
• Fabio BURIGO, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina-UFSC “Trajectories of rural and solidarity cooperatives in Brazil: what roles for the State and civil society?”

Registration is free but mandatory before Friday, May 5th, 2023.

Contacts:

• Myriam KESSARI (CIHEAM-IAMM, UMR MoISA) : kessari@iamm.fr
• Louis-Antoine SAISSET (Institut Agro, UMR MoISA) : louisantoine.saisset@supagro.fr
• Leïla TEMRI (Institut Agro, UMR MoISA) : leila.temri@supagro.fr

Detailed program

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After consolidating the information received from stakeholders (Focal Points, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission), MED-Amin has just published its first Crop Forecast Bulletin 2023. It provides early quality forecasts for the 2022-2023 season, with a particular focus on soft wheat, durum wheat, and barley.

It provides an overview of the impacts of the drought over much of the western Mediterranean, already giving a negative outlook for the next cereal harvest.

Specifically, the start of the 2023 cereal season has been mainly influenced by dry conditions with heterogeneous impacts on the Mediterranean region. In the northern and eastern Mediterranean, despite relatively dry conditions in January and February 2023, crops are developing well, with areas to watch in southern France, eastern Spain, northern Italy and central Anatolia (Türkiye), where the consequences of this more pronounced dry regime could be felt in the absence of rain in the coming weeks.

In the Maghreb countries, on the other hand, severe drought is already hampering cereal growth with conditions considered poor in western and eastern Algeria, central and southern Morocco and central Tunisia.

In the north-west, heavy rains in the autumn (October-December 2022) and high input prices have led to delayed sowing and reduced areas under winter cereals (Portugal) or early fertilisation (Spain).

Consult the Bulletin

The NATAE project (Fostering Agroecology Transition in North Africa Through Multi-actor Evaluation and Networking) is a 4-year project funded by the European Research Executive Agency (REA) under the Horizon Europe Programme.

The project went into force in December 2022 joining 22 European and non-European partners and aiming to foster agroecological transition in North Africa. Bringing together a multidisciplinary and multi-actor consortium (research and education institutions, international organizations, and local NGOs) mostly from around the Mediterranean, it will identify optimal combinations of agroecological practices and develop a replicable methodology to design locally-tailored strategies for AE transitions.

The NATAE project consortium met and launched the project on 19 January 2023 during the project’s virtual kick-off meeting. The meeting objectives were to :

1) restate objectives of the project and establish a good understanding of the deliverables and related activities,

2) present the living labs context and challenges in the project,

3) clarify grant agreement requirements,

4) present and identify relevant project management tools for NATAE implementation and governance and

5) review the next activities of the project and associated meetings.

The virtual kick-off was the first occasion where the project consortium, even if virtually, with the presence of the Advisory Board and with the participation of the project’s Project Officer and Research Policy Officers from DG AGRI.

🔎 For more information on the NATAE project: https://www.natae-agroecology.eu/ 

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.