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Visit of Mr. Al Hajj Hassan Abbas, Minister of Agriculture of Lebanon

As part of its cooperation activities with Lebanon, CIHEAM Montpellier hosted His Excellency Mr. Al Hajj Hassan Abbas, Minister of Agriculture of Lebanon from June 6 to 9, 2022.

A program of meetings with regional institutions and agrifood structures in Occitanie has been implemented by CIHEAM Montpellier to support the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture in its search for solutions to the current food crisis in the country.

This visit was an opportunity to discuss the first results of the SupMed project which deals with strategies to fight against climate change, and to see to what extent these results can be integrated into the future Lebanese agricultural strategy.

> More information on the SupMed project

During his visit, the Minister also met and discussed with Lebanese students and PhD hosted by the CIHEAM Montpellier.

 

 

>> Programme of the visit

For its 60th Anniversary, the CIHEAM Montpellier brings Mediterranean Youth to the fore!

Montpellier, France – November 29 and 30, 2022.

Rather than celebrating the 60th Anniversary of both the CIHEAM and its Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (CIHEAM Montpellier) by looking in the rear-view mirror, a hundred young Mediterranean coming from the 13 CIHEAM member countries caught a glimpse of the future in front of a large audience, on November 29 & 30, 2022 in Montpellier.

Even though they could express concerns about the deepening and multiplication of existing regional crises and their impacts on food-security and territorial stability, they mainly presented their assessment and aspirations; their vision for more sustainable and inclusive agrifood systems in the Mediterranean.

This event provided a pool of international experts, mostly coming from organisations and partner institutions of the CIHEAM (Union for the Mediterranean, Centre for Mediterranean Integration, CARI Association, Plan Bleu, Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, …) as well as European, national and regional elected representatives, an opportunity to tackle their analysis and proposals. A high-level panel which successively addressed the following topics:

  • Sustainable and inclusive agrifood systems in the Mediterranean of tomorrow, in the light of the lessons of history and the scenarios of the future;
  • The management of current crises by governments and the measures that need to be taken to address long-term problems;
  • The adaptation of technical and financial cooperation mechanisms to better respond to future challenges and current emergencies;

and whose debates were of high quality.

► Watch the France Télévision Report!

On the photo:
Mohamed Sgheir BEN YOUSSEF, Project Manager, BusinessMED
Patrice BURGER, President, NGO CARI
Faouzia CHARFI, Former Secretary of State for Higher Education
Julian CLEC’H, Head of Cabinet, Union for the Mediterranean
Salem DARWICH, Advisor to the Lebanese Minister of Agriculture
Sébastien DENAJA, Conseiller régional, Région Occitanie
Giordano DICHTER, Private Sector Development, Mediterranean Innovation Platform: Fostering Youth Innovation
Thierry DUPEUBLE, Director, CIHEAM Montpellier
Faten KHAMASSI, Head of Cabinet, Tunisian Minister of Agriculture
Denis LACROIX, Vice-President, Plan Bleu
Elen LEMAITRE-CURRI, Deputy Director, CIHEAM Montpellier
Blanca MORENO-DODSON, Director, Centre for Mediterranean Integration

Discussions were held in three emblematic places of the city, as regards production and share of knowledge: the Faculty of Medicine, the House of International Relations and the CIHEAM Montpellier.

This work should culminate in the publication of a White Paper initiated last July, in which visions and recommendations for the future of Mediterranean agrifood systems will be proposed, focusing on the following subject areas:
– Which rural world in 2050?
– Which agricultural model(s) in 2050?
– What training, what research, and what agricultural advice in 2050?
– What regional cooperation and solidarity mechanisms in 2050?

To be followed!

On the photo:
Hatem BELHOUCHETTE, Scientific Administrator, CIHEAM Montpellier
Mohamed Sgheir BEN YOUSSEF, Project Manager, BusinessMED
Julian CLEC’H, Head of Cabinet, Union for the Mediterranean
Raul COMPES, Director, CIHEAM Zaragoza
Salem DARWICH, Advisor and Representative, Minister of Agriculture of Lebanon
Thierry DUPEUBLE, Director, CIHEAM Montpellier
Clara HART, Vice-President, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Delegate for International Outreach and European Cooperation
Faten KHAMASSI, Head of Cabinet and Representative, Tunisian Minister of Agriculture
Blanca MORENO-DODSON, Director, Centre for Mediterranean Integration
Placido PLAZA, Secretary General, CIHEAM
Daniel SCHLOSSER, for the Ministerial Delegation for the Mediterranean (DIMED)
Isabelle TOUZARD, Vice-President, delegated to the Ecological and Solidarity Transition, Biodiversity, Energy, Agroecology and Food, Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole

MED-Amin: 2nd Harvest Forecast Bulletin 2022

 

After consolidating the information received from the participating countries and partners, MED-Amin is pleased to publish the second “Harvest Forecast Bulletin” 2022. It provides early qualitative forecasts for the 2021-2022 campaign, with a particular focus on soft wheat, durum wheat and barley.

The second 2022 “Harvest Forecast Bulletin” provides early quality forecasts for the 2021-2022 campaign, with a particular focus on soft wheat, durum wheat and barley.

 

It provides an overview of the possible impacts of soaring input prices (including fertilizers) on the productive potential of the region and gives cereal production forecasts, with an intense and long-lasting drought that has hampered the future harvest of crops of winter in Morocco, Portugal and parts of Italy and Algeria which remain uncertain (see country forecasts).

>> Consult the Bulletin

CIHEAM Montpellier at COP15 “Fight against desertification”

 

The session “Land governance and the fight against land degradation” on Tuesday 10 May 22, to which CIHEAM Montpellier contributed, introduced the land issue within the framework of land rehabilitation activities, in order to encourage reflection and sharing ideas for the design and implementation of the next phase of the Great Green Wall initiative.

It is based on an IRD policy brief prepared by the Montpellier land tenure GIS. Some of the main ideas were briefly exposed in order to allow interactive discussions; the objective being that the participants can in return present testimonies around lived experiences and questions concerning social relations in the broad sense about land and water, or land in connection with the environmental question, the desertification, and land degradation.

Facilitators:

  • Mélanie Requier-Desjardins, Lecturer-researcher at CIHEAM Montpellier, member of the CSFD and of the GIS Pôle Foncier de Montpellier and of the Desertification Working Group (GTD) of the CARI
  • Colette Benoudji, GTD Chad
  • Innocent Antoine Houedji, GTD Benin.

>> Policy brief produced by the GIS Pôle Foncier de Montpellier: https://pole-foncier.fr/

>> COP15: https://www.unccd.int/cop15

>> Find out more about the Desertification COPs: https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/cop15-sur-lutte-contre-desertification

Delegation from the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture

 

On Monday May 9 2022, Elen Lemaitre-Curri, Jean-Paul Pellissier and Thierry Dupeuble, presented the activities of CIHEAM Montpellier to a delegation from the Turkish Ministry of Agriculture, as part of a study trip to France at the UNDP initiative and coordinated by Agropolis.

This visit comes at a time when CIHEAM Montpellier has just been selected by AFD to conduct a study on “project opportunities for the promotion of sustainable agriculture and livestock farming in Turkey”. This study, which will be launched on May 7, will be conducted over 6 months.

This project, as well as the increased number of applications from Turkish students for the next academic year, particularly for enrollment in the Midas Master, reward the efforts of CIHEAM Montpellier to redevelop its activities with Turkey.

A CIHEAM’s delegation took part in the World Water Forum

A CIHEAM’s delegation will take part in the World Water Forum that will be held in Dakar (Senegal) from 21st to 26th March. A special session «Territorialisation of policies: water and agroecology at the service of rural development and the 2030 Agenda» will be organized on 22 March from 9 am to 10.30 am.

This special session is organized by the General Councils of the French and Moroccan Ministries of Agriculture, AFD (French Development Agency, the World Water Council and the French Water Partnership, and is co-organized by the AAA Initiative, the French Academy of Agriculture, the GID and the CIHEAM.

 

SOIL, WATER AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

The session follows two international meetings “on the road to Dakar”, organized in October 2021: the 7th Seminar on Water and Food Security in West Africa and the Mediterranean and the Parmenides de Bari Conference on River Basin Management in the Mediterranean.

The objectives of this session is to :

  • Highlight elements of long-term vision, and, through concrete examples, the possible contents and possibilities of “building differently”
  • Propose policy elements implementing the levers of transition at different territorial levels.
  • Generate political messages that will contribute to the success of the Forum and its high-level panels.

It will bring together territorial project leaders (soil, water and rural development), academics, professional and research leaders, innovative NGOs and farmers, water resource managers, policy advisors and ministers.

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