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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

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Vacancy: post-doctoral position in remote sensing

Within the scope of the GRANULAR Horizon Europe project.

 

CIHEAM Montpellier is looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on the development of algorithms to extract useful information to characterise rural areas from Earth Observation.

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 organisations, NGOs, rural networks, and local authorities).

Role

The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to the design and development of new DL algorithms to detect landscape features and their changes based on EO data.

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MED-Amin Newsletter #44

The year 2022 ended with the 9th plenary meeting of the MED-Amin network, which it was finally possible to hold face-to-face after two years during which the pandemic had prohibited it. Hosted by Spain and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the two-day meeting took place on 22 and 23 November 2022 at CIHEAM Zaragoza.

Once again, we would like to thank the partners involved for their organisational and financial support. These days not only allowed us to take stock of the work carried out over the past year, but also to share the challenges to be met in order to set up a genuine early warning system for cereal markets in the Mediterranean.

The significant participation of experts who have long been associated with the work of MED-Amin, whether they are within AMIS, the IGC, the FAO or the EU, testifies to the interest that many of the partners mobilised by the CIHEAM have in this project, which augurs very well for the future.

As for the work already carried out within MED-Amin, this new initiative on early warning would have no future without the assiduous participation of all the focal points who have been working within the network since its creation in 2014. We would also like to thank them warmly for their commitment to this new year. Under the presidency of Spain, which will also hold the presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of 2023, the MED-Amin secretariat will also be responsible for organising the training courses and webinars that mark the year and enable the network’s skills to be consolidated.

The importance of this network was reiterated at the last CIHEAM Council, which was held on 16 December 2022. Several delegates intervened to underline its role in a context where unfortunately, for more than a year, the climatic, agricultural and geopolitical news in the region has only confirmed the need for such a tool to contribute to guaranteeing food security, in particular in the most fragile States in this respect. MED-Amin therefore remains a priority action of the CIHEAM for the coming year, which will be marked by a change of governance, since the Minister of Agriculture of Albania will take over the presidency of the CIHEAM from April 2023.

As Mr Miranda, the Spanish Secretary General for Agriculture and Food, pointed out in Zaragoza, the coordinated work of the MED-Amin network, the exchange of knowledge and experience, and the strengthening of mechanisms for anticipating unfavourable situations must contribute to resolving more effectively the new challenges posed by climate change, conflicts and geopolitical and commercial tensions.

Unfortunately, the year 2023 is not starting under the best of auspices: in a context of persistently high energy prices, agricultural production costs remain on an upward trend, while inflation is affecting household consumption, including food. And unfortunately, the beginning of the winter cereal season is marked by a persistent water deficit in several Mediterranean regions. Let us hope that the spring will be more clement and will allow us to hope for generous harvests throughout the basin in 2023.

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