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).
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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
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 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.
The new Consul of Algeria, Chaouki Chemmam, who took up his duties in Montpellier at the beginning of March 2022, visited the CIHEAM Montpellier on Friday May 6, 2022. This is the Consul’s second official visit since his installation, testimony to his strong interest for teaching and research.
Omar Bessaoud, Philippe Le Grusse and Thierry Dupeuble presented the activities of the Institute, and more specifically the research and cooperation projects concerning Algeria. Then joined by Sihem Mokrani, Master of Science student, and Nadia Ait Alioua, Master CGAT student, the meeting continued with a visit to the campus and exchanges based on the experience of the students and the evocation of their professional projects. This meeting comes on the eve of the selection interviews for future students of the 2022/2023 Master 2 promotions which will be welcomed next September. These interviews will finally be able to resume face-to-face, in the countries of origin, after 2 years of health crisis. In Algeria, these interviews are scheduled for May 22 to 24, 2022 at ENSA Algiers.
On 25 October 2021 CIHEAM Montpellier received Dr. Rachel Bezner Kerr, Professor of Global Development at Cornell University.
Dr. Rachel Bezner Kerr is one of the authors of the report on “Agroecological approaches and other innovations for sustainable agriculture and food systems that enhance food security and nutrition” published in 2019 by the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition. Moreover, she coordinates the chapter of the next IPCC report on the impacts of climate change on food systems and their adaptation.
She recently participated in the Montpellier Global Days, within the framework of the Africa-France summit which was held in Montpellier at the beginning of October.
In her research, she promotes holistic approaches, combining natural and social sciences, in the study of food systems. The exchanges she had with some lecturers-researchers from the Institute (Hatem Bellouchette, Mélanie Requier-Desjardins, Georgios Kleftodimos, Omar Bessaoud, and part of the management team, Elen Lemaitre-Curri and Thierry Dupeuble) have focused on the multidimensional evaluation of agroecological approaches, participatory research and training of producers by their peers.
CIHEAM Montpellier hopes that this meeting will open up prospects for collaboration on these themes of common interest.
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