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CIHEAM-MAIB
Issue 4 Winter 2012
@iamb community Newsletter
Winter 2012 Issue 4 Winter 2012
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….Building mailing lists and database, managing and
editing information, answering emails and interacting with
FTN @iamb community members and users….
...a great challenge for FTN!
….Alumni Networking and Management … MAIB Horizontal activities!!!
MAIB Former students
Where are they??
We seek your active involvement and
participation and would appreciate it very
….To connect you
with
thousands of FTN
@iamb community
members!!!
1220 Members
57 Countries
20 Mediterranean countries
37 countries across the world
( FTN database January, 2012)
CIHEAM-MAIB
Issue 4 Winter 2012
@iamb community Newsletter
In this issue:
Cover 1
Table of contents 2
Editorial 3-4
MAIB awarded for its contribution to the Culture of Peace in
Mediterranean region
5
Education/Training: Distance Learning courses
Blended course: Sustainable agriculture innovation systems for small-
scale farmers
Arabic course: Innovative approaches to participatory technology
development in agriculture
6-7
Research, Cooperation and Networking
L&W division : WASSERMed Project 8-9
MOA division: Biological techniques of the production and conservation
for healthiness of table grape
10-11
SA&RD division : Workshop/ Sustainability of Mediterranean Diet 12
Gender empowerment and sustainable rural development 13-15
Latest & upcoming events
6th world water Forum– Marseille
Euro– Mediterranean Conference-Barcelona
16
17
Mediterranean Agriculture Exhibitions & Trade Fairs 18
CIHEAM MAIB Latest publications and releases 19
International latest publications 20
Funding opportunities: NFP Tailor-Made Training, NUFFIC 21-22
Trip marks: Combining art, sport, adventure and science 23-24
Story from MAIB former students 25-26
FTN Brand and Identity/How to Join FTN initiative? 27-28
Call for contribution to @iamb community newsletter 29
Winter 2012 Issue 4 Winter 2012
Winter sentence
“ “...Fun in friendship
and respect ...”
Editorial information
Editor-in-Chief
Maurizio Raeli
Managing Editor
Noureddin Driouech
Steering committee
Olimpia Antonelli
Stefania Lapedota
Luigi Sisto
Maroun El Moujabber
Editorial office
Istituto Agronomico
Mediterraneo
CIHEAM-MAI of Bari
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70010 Valenzano (BA)
Italy
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CIHEAM-MAIB
Issue 4 Winter 2011
Editorial
Dear readers,
We are very pleased to announce you the publi-
cation of the 4th Issue-winter 2012 of FTN
@iamb community newsletter.
This forth Issue presents the latest MAIB Dis-
tance learning courses on “Innovation Systems
for Small-scale Farmers and innovative Ap-
proach to Participatory Technology Develop-
ment in Sustainable Agriculture”, and Research,
Cooperation and Networking activities (i.e
WASSERMed project on Water availability and
Security; Biological techniques for organic pro-
duction and conservation of table grapes etc.).
It also focuses on main activities of MAIB in the
field of Sustainability of Mediterranean Diet, and
Gender Empowerment and Sustainable Rural
Development. Moreover, it highlights the latest
events of MAIB: coordination and organization
of the 6th World Water Forum- Marseille,
France, up-next participation into the Euro-
Mediterranean Conference on Research and
Innovation-Barcelona, Spain.
Moreover, in this release you find:
Funding opportunities-Nuffic, The Nether-
lands Fellowship Programmes (NFP). The
NFP Tailor-Made Training is open to a broad
range of organizations in 61 NFP countries,
from educational institution, research insti-
tutes and ministries to NGOs and Small and
Medium Enterprise (SMEs).
Exhibitions and Trade fairs: A calendar of up-
coming Mediterranean Agriculture and fairs.
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FTN Initiative: what’s new?
Since we live in a dynamic and fast changing
world, by interacting and keeping in touch with
our members, we believe that FTN is well
placed to play a key role within the large MAIB
community and may be able to address major
benefits.
The better assist the increasing membership to
@iamb community ( 1225 members in January
2012), we are utilizing modern and worldwide
leader technologies to communicate with the
community members. Furthermore we designed
recently a Help Desk (see webpage in figure 1)
to facilitate:
- new member registration and user profile up-
grading, see Link
- post and announcement of new topic into FTN
thematic Forums, see Link
- publication and share of article, news into FTN
Knowledge base, see Link
- Submission of direct message to MAIB specific
department or office, see Link
Your opinion counts, help us by filling in this
survey to help make next newsletter issue bet-
ter!
May we also take this opportunity to thanks
members, supporters who make voluntary feed-
back, suggestions, comments and are spread-
ing the world about FTN initiative among their
MAIB’s contacts.
Enjoy your reading! With best regards.
Editors
Maurizio Raeli & Noureddin Driouech
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Figure 1: FTN @iamb community platform
MAIB awarded for its contribution to the Culture of Peace
in Mediterranean region
Palermo, December 15, 2011.
The MAI of Bari has been awarded the international prize “Don Pino Puglisi” in memory of the socially-committed priest murdered by Mafia.
The prize is given to who everyday fights for human rights, inviting us to struggle against all mafias.
This seventh edition of the Prize patronized by the President of the Italian Republic was dedicated to promote the rights of children and families in Rio de Janeiro favelas.
Dr. Cosimo Lacirignola, the Director of MAIB, withdrew the prize on December 15, 2011 at Teatro Biondo in Palermo, with the following motivation: “For the quotidian, laudable and earnest contribution of the Institute to the achievement of a Culture of Peace among the Mediterranean , the Balkan and the Middle-Eastern countries, through a high training of excellence, which helps students solve specific problems in their countries of origin.
Together with MAIB, they have been also awarded Sister Adma Cassab Fadel, dedicating her life to the poor in Rio de Janeiro favelas, Padre Luigi Merla, living under police because of his fight against Camorra, Professor Mads Andenaes, from Oslo, the Sferlazzo family from Lampedusa , who showed humanity to immigrants and the Carabinieri Station “Zen 2” which fights illegality in the suburbs of Palermo.
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Education/Training
Title: Sustainable agriculture innovation systems for small-scale farmers
Issue 4 Winter 2012
Type: Blended
Date: 20 February – 30 September 2012
Duration: 8 month
Location: MAIB of Bari (face-to face phases) MAIB web-based platform (on-line phase)
Website: http://el.iamb.it/
Agriculture in South Mediterranean and Balkan countries is characterized by common issues that have a strong influence in determining of widespread rural poverty, in particular among small-scale farmers : need for food security, sustainable management of natural resources, energy supply difficulties, excessive population growth and low economic growth, etc.
In this context, the MAIB e-learning course aims to in-crease knowledge and skills of operators (course par-ticipants) from public and private institutions of Mediter-ranean and Balkan countries, on issues related to rural poverty reduction and food security, conservation and sustainable agriculture based on natural resource management, participatory processes and innovation
systems of small-scale farmers and producers.
Background and purpose
A- Face-to-face training sessions at MAIB Institute (20 february-4 march 2012) Module I: Introduction to sustainable agriculture and small-scale farmers’ agricultural and rural in-novation systems Module II: Practical exercise applying the information and skills acquired and familiarization with the collaborative learning and activities to be carried out online
B- Online training sessions ( 5 March-8 July 2012) Module I: Innovation systems for sustainable agriculture and rural development Module II: Governance and institutions for sustain-able rural development Module III: Research, extension and innovation in sustainable land management Module IV: Value chains
Module V: Analysis of local innovation systems
Project work activities: (09 July-16 September) C- Follow-up at MAIB Institute(17-30 September 2012)
Contents and structure
This follow-up course is designed for 26 professionals, officers and technical personnel, working in governmental and non-governmental institutions dealing with agricultural and rural development. MAIB former students, including members of the Former Trainees Network (FTN), are the main target.
Participants’ profile and target
Follow-up: Distance Learning course 2012
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E-learning Division [email protected]
Innovative approaches to participatory technology
development in agriculture
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Title
02 April – 17 June 2012 / Arabic Period & Language
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs-DGCS Financed by
Applicants from Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, are eligible Eligible countries
In most countries of the South Mediterranean and Middle East region, agricul-ture is characterized by the relative deficiency of agriculture technology develop-ment and dissemination particularly in marginal areas and the gap between re-search and extension due to the inefficient participatory approaches in technol-ogy development. These constraints consequently determine the low agricultural productivity reached particularly by small-scale farmers who represent the large segment in the farmers’ population in the region. In this context, the MAIB e-learning course on “Innovative approaches to participatory technology development in agriculture” aims to sensitize and increase skills and awareness of operators from public and private institutions of South Mediterranean and Middle East countries, on issues related to participatory approaches in agricultural technology development and dissemination, thus strengthening linkages between research and extension to allow an easy adoption of agricultural technologies by farmers in order to assure an efficient natural resources management and the improvement of productivity and farmers’ income.
Objectives
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Land and Water Resources Management Division
Water Availability and Security in Southern Europe and the
Mediterranean (WASSERMed)
Title
The Project was launched on January 1st 2010 and spans a 3 year‐period (1012) Period and duration
The Project is aimed at analyzing, in a multi‐disciplinary way, climate change impacts in the Mediterranean area, within the frame of water‐related security threats
Outreach
WASSERMed builds on current climate projections in order to address
present and future uncertainties in hydrological budgets in the Mediterranean area.
Starting from the assessment of changes in mean flows, frequency and magnitude
of extreme precipitation, run‐off, stream flows and ground water balance, WASSER-
Med expands towards the recognition and quantification of social and economic
factors that affect future threats to water security and increase the vulnerability of
water systems.
Main objective
WASSERMed will disseminate its progress and findings through its website (www.wassermed.eu), scientific publications, application-oriented material and po-licy briefs. Stakeholders involvment will be fostered through dedicated workshops and target dissemination events
Adressed problem
and specific
purpose
MAIB contact: Mladen Todorovic [email protected]
CMCC UNEXE CIHEAM-IAMB CLU NTUA UPM NCARE PIK IRD NWRC INAT FAUJ Italy UK International Italy Greece Spain Jordan Germany France Egypt Tunisia Jordan
Partners
CIHEAM-MAIB
activities
CIHEAM-MAIB is the scientific leader of the work package on Climate change
impact on water sensitive strategic sectors (agriculture and tourism).
The main activities are:
√ The assessment of climate change impact on crop evapotranspiration,
irrigation requirements and water productivity in the Mediterranean
agriculture;
√ The determination of the potential impact of irrigation technologies on water
saving in agricultural sector;
√ The assessment of possible adaptation measures to climate change in
agricultural sector.
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Land and Water Resources Management Division
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Mediterranean Organic Agriculture Division
Biological techniques of the production and
conservation for healthiness of table grape.
Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (Italian - MiPAAF)
The development of a technical protocol of the entire production process, able to expand the possibilities of export of organic table grape even in countries outside Europe, which currently does not authorize the importation of Italian table grape, for the possible presence of Mediterranean fruit fly, known as quarantine insect
Title
Financed by
Main objective
√To estimate the water consumption of table grape cultivar Italia conducted in or-ganic production, using and comparing different estimation methods, with verifica-tion of the possibility of returning of a fraction of total water consumption without re-ducing the level of quality and productivity or, even improving quantity and quality performance; √To rationalize pest control techniques; √To study the influence of water status on plant ecophysiological parameters and to evaluate the effect on vegetative growth, on the productivity and quality parameters of grape at harvest and after cold storage; √To apply cold treatment for a determined period of time (12-17 days at 0.5-2°C) as a method of disinfestations of Mediterranean fruit fly without altering the quality of grape; √To adopt techniques of cold storage and specific formulated safe from the point of view of sanitation to be used both during the phase of cultivation in field and in the cold storage (ozone and carbon dioxide at high concentrations) for the maintenance of the quality of table grape bio for longer periods of time; √To identify new pre-treatment systems with low environmental impact during cold storage for the marketing of table grape without fungal infections
Specific objectives
Period 2010-2012
Partners - Research Unit for Table Grapes and Wine Growing in Mediterranean environment (CRA-UTV), Turi (BA)-Coordination - Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (BA) Italy. - Provincial Centre Bonomo for Research and Experimentation on Agriculture. Castel del Monte, Andria (Ba).
Expected results √Identification of simple and easily applicable criteria to the reality of organic viticul-ture for the vineyard management with the following benefits: environmental impact reduction; water and energy saving; high-quality products
√Improvement of pest control techniques which enhance the healthiness of table grape; √Development of a technical protocol of cold treatment in order to avoid the current ban on importation of Italian table grape in countries where there is a quarantine against Ceratitis capitata; √The innovative techniques of cold storage will allow the marketing of table grapes bio with a longer shelf-life compared to what has been achieved, improving the mar-ket competitiveness of producers; √To identify new pre-treatment systems to be applied during cold storage.
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Biological techniques of the production and conservation for
healthiness of table grape.
We invite who is working on the same topic and related research issues to feel
free to contact Vito Simeone at: [email protected]
Vineyard cv. Italia- MAIB Experimental field (Bari) Ceratitis capitata larvae
Ceratitis capitata eggs Inoculation
Container for grapes table exportation
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Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development [email protected]
International technical workshop: “Guidelines for
the Sustainability of the Mediterranean Diet”; CIHEAM MAI Bari-Italy, 28-29 November 2011
The Mediterranean diet (MD) was recognized by
UNESCO in November 2010 as an intangible
cultural heritage of humanity. Considering that
present food production and processing, food
supply and distribution, and food consumption
systems are not sustainable due to biodiversity
loss, natural resources degradation, climate
change, high energy input as well as poverty;
present vulnerability of many Mediterranean rural
communities; and, particularly, Mediterranean
diet erosion and a consumer culture of overcon-
sumption; urgent measures are needed to
promote and disseminate the concept of
“sustainable diets” in Mediterranean countries.
Based on the shared definition of “sustainable
diets” and taking into consideration the recom-
mendations and guidelines of the Steering Com-
mittee - that held its meeting in Bari on May 26,
2011 – the MAI-B organised on November 28-
29, 2011, an international workshop to formulate
“Guidelines for the Sustainability of the Mediter-
ranean Diet”. The workshop brought together 28
experts (e.g. nutritionists, agronomists, econo-
mists, social scientists) from many Mediterra-
nean, European and international organisations
(FAO; Bioversity International; UNEP; CIHEAM-
MAIB; CIHEAM-MAIM; European Federation of
Nutrition Societies - FENS; International Union of
Nutritional Sciences – IUNS; Fundación Dieta
Mediterránea; Chouaib Doukkali University, Mo-
rocco; Pisa University, Italy; University of Naples
“Federico II”, Italy; National Research Council
(CNR), Italy; Aix-Marseille University, France;
University of Bologna, Italy; Forum on Mediterra-
nean Food Cultures, Italy;
Information system on organic farming (SINAB), Italy;
National Research Centre, Egypt; National Agency for
New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic
Development (ENEA), Italy; Universitat Oberta de Cata-
lunya (UOC), Spain; Ibn Tofail University, Morocco). In
addition, 23 young professionals from 12 countries
(Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Egypt,
Ethiopia, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Pales-
tine, Serbia) attending the Sustainable Agriculture ad-
vanced specialisation course held at CIHEAM-Bari, aca-
demic year 2011-12, took part to the workshop. The
multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary and intersectorial
effort made by the workshop participants allowed the
identification of 70 indicators dealing with food produc-
tion and consumption structured around four impact
areas: environment and natural resources (including
agro-biodiversity); economy; society and culture; and
nutrition, health and lifestyle. It allowed also to identify
some enabling policies for enhancing the MD sustain-
ability.
Workshop outcomes and Follow up up
The participants decided to create a “Task Force on Indicators for Assessing the Sustainability of the Medi-terranean Diet” which is open to all organizations and institutions that are ready to develop indicators for assessing the sustainability of the Mediterranean diet and agro-food system. CIHEAM-MAIB has constituted a Secretariat for the Coordination of the Task Force (TF). Indicators will be developed taking into consideration the definition of sustainable diets and the new Mediter-ranean diet pyramid describing the main features of the MD common to the different Mediterranean food cul-tures. The indicators will be used to formulate measures to safeguard and promote the MD and to make recom-mendations for multi-sectoral policy instruments to en-hance the sustainability of the Mediterranean agro-food systems and food consumption patterns. The identified indicators could be useful as a model to assess the sus-tainability of diets in other regions of the world. The re-sults and output of the TF’s activities will be presented on September 24-25, 2012, in Malta during the seminar that will be organised jointly with the 9th meeting of the Agriculture Ministers of CIHEAM’s member countries
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Main activities of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute
of Bari (CIHEAM-IAM Bari) in the field of Gender
empowerment and sustainable rural development
COOPERATION & NETWORKING
In the Mediterranean Countries we are still in need of hard
work and great efforts to bridge the gender gap, to fill the
difference between women and men working conditions.
There is still a urgent need for devising strategies to at-
tract the attention of society to the contribution of women
in the economic emancipation in particular within the rural
sector, a sector that affects the overall development policy
of a Country.
The slow progress in gender implementation in the major-
ity of the South Countries of the Region, asks for new
gender strategies to provide the solutions to the existing
constraints and to encourage and empower women en-
gaged in the rural sector. These women should be no
more forgotten in the ample plans to foster on the
economic growth of a nation.
For that matter, such a strategy should contribute to the
achievement of the 3rd Development Goal established by
the United Nations and whose attainment should be
reached within the year 2015. The UNDP agrees on the
assumption that to promote gender equality and women
empowerment are effective ways to combat poverty,
hunger and disease and to stimulate sustainable
development.
The commitment of CIHEAM-Mediterranean Agronomic
Institute of Bari in the field of “gender empowerment”
dates back to the early 2000 when such a topic was
legitimately included in development cooperation projects.
By now, it has acquired strategic importance and it plays a
central role. CIHEAM-IAM Bari is actively involved in this
field as you can gather from this brief list of activities:
√ 2002 – International workshop “ Gender and water
resources management in the Mediterranean
area” (Cairo, Egypt): The workshop was organized by
CIHEAM-IAM Bari in cooperation with the National Water
Research Center of Cairo under the EU Regional Action
Programme RAP, during the first regional conference on
the perspectives of Arab water cooperation, with the
attendance of more than 200 experts from the Arab world
representing public, universities, research centres, and
users and women associations.
√ 2005 – Project “INGEDI”: Integration of Gender
dimension in Water Management in the Mediterranean
Region”: In 2005 CIHEAM-IAM Bari was actively involved
in this field and has been assigned a development project
by the European Union: “INGEDI” whose main objective
was the integration of women dimension in the Mediterra-
nean water management and the development of ade-
quate policies.
√ 2005 – Training Course: “Iraqi women for sustain-
able development” (MAIB, Italy): CIHEAM-IAM Bari
organized a Training course and hosted a group of Iraqi
women operating in the sector of education, health,
agriculture and journalism, with the support of the Italian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in collaboration with
ONILFA (National Observatory for Women's Entrepre-
neurship and Labor in Agriculture). The purpose was to
introduce the international cooperation programs of the
European Union to the participants and illustrate the pro-
cedures for the admission to the funded projects.
√ 2006 – Project “GEWAMED” – “Mainstreaming Gender
dimension into water resources development and man-
agement in the Mediterranean Region”: In 2006 this com-
mitment has continued and has been strengthened by the
assignment of the coordination of the European project
GEWAMED, a project financed by the INCO (International
Scientific Co-operation) within the Sixth Framework Re-
search Programme of the European Commission (EC)
and addressed to the countries of the Mediterranean Re-
gion.
The overall objective of GEWAMED was to contribute to
the mainstreaming of gender dimensions in the Integrated
Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the Mediterra-
nean Region, by promoting a dialogue among the coun-
tries of the Region and establishing regional and national
information networks and coordination structures to pro-
mote the adoption of gender sensitive policies and build a
common knowledge base. A total of 18 institutions from
14 countries from the Mediterranean Region (Algeria,
Cyprus, Egypt, France, Jordan, Greece, Italy, Lebanon,
Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey)
participated in the project that has ended in August 2011.
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√ 2007 – Project “TERCOM” - Activation of mechanisms
to sustain Rural Territories & Communities in Lebanon.
financed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs/DGCS
and implemented by CIHEAM-IAM Bari in collaboration
with the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture and the Leba-
nese CNRS, with the technical support of ONILFA
(National Observatory for female enterprise and labor in
agriculture) of the Italian Ministry of Agriculture (MiPAF).
TERCOM Project aimed to support the income of the Lebanese rural Communities, by undertaking and devel-oping strategies in order to: - improve the quality of agricultural production - promote the development of rural areas - assist the fishing industry in south Lebanon
√ 2008 Launch of Lebanese National Observatory for
Women in Agriculture and Rural Areas “NOWARA”: In
2008, the Italian Cooperation Project TerCom “Activation
of mechanisms to sustain rural territories and communi-
ties in Lebanon”, financed by the Italian Ministry of For-
eign Affairs/DGCS after the Israeli conflict in 2006, has
promoted the establishment in Lebanon of a National
Observatory for Women in Agriculture and Rural Areas –
NOWARA.
The creation and launch of NOWARA was implemented
by CIHEAM-IAM Bari in collaboration with the Lebanese
Ministry of Agriculture, the Lebanese CNRS, and with the
technical support of ONILFA (National Observatory for
Female Enterprise and Labor in Agriculture) of the Italian
Ministry of Agriculture (MiPAF).
NOWARA is currently a specialized governmental body
which plays an important role for the promotion of territo-
rial development through the valorization of women entre-
preneurship and the creation of innovative dynamics re-
lated to the work and employment of Lebanese women in
the agricultural, agro food and rural sectors. NOWARA
also aims to support rural women by spreading knowl-
edge and good practices.
It will give further national recognition to women who play
a major role in economy and production, both in formal
and informal sectors in rural areas.
In addition, the Observatory will voice rural women along
with policy and decision makers; supporting them
strongly through legislative and regulating bodies and
public administrations.
√ June 2008: International workshop “Women Status in
the Mediterranean: their Rights and Sustainable Develop-
ment” held at CIHEAM-IAM Bari from 16th to 17th June
2008 and aiming to improve the institutional dialogue and
to promote synergies in the field of the “gender empower-
ment” in the different scientific and cultural sectors.
√ 2008 Launch of Lebanese National Observatory for
Women in Agriculture and Rural Areas “NOWARA”: In
2008, the Italian Cooperation Project TerCom “Activation
of mechanisms to sustain rural territories and communi-
ties in Lebanon”, financed by the Italian Ministry of For-
eign Affairs/DGCS after the Israeli conflict in 2006, has
promoted the establishment in Lebanon of a National
Observatory for Women in Agriculture and Rural Areas –
NOWARA.
√ June 2008: International workshop “Women Status in
the Mediterranean: their Rights and Sustainable Develop-
ment” held at CIHEAM-IAM Bari from 16th to 17th June
2008 and aiming to improve the institutional dialogue and
to promote synergies in the field of the “gender empower-
ment” in the different scientific and cultural sectors.
GEWAMEDGEWAMED
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For further information, if you are interested in contributing to the work of the GEMNET Network or
you wish to involve your Institution, please contact: Mrs Rosanna Quagliariello [email protected]
Suggested reading: Quagliariello, 2009. The importance of gender empowerment in rural development programme GEWAMED and TERCOM
Projects Women status in the Mediterranean: their Rights and Sustainable Development Options Méditerranéennes, A n° 87, 2009.
http://ressources.ciheam.org/om/pdf/a87/00801052.pdf
Useful links: Learn more about GEWAMED project: http://www.gewamed.net
Learn more about NOWARA project: http://www.nowaralebanon.org
learn more about INGEDI : http://ingedi.iamb.it/programmi/project.htm
√ July 2011: workshop on “The integration of gender dimen-
sion in IWRM: lessons and challenges in the Mediterranean
Region”(Brussels, Belgium):
In August 2011, GEWAMED project has been officially con-
cluded and a conference held in Brussels on 13 and 14
July 2011 was the final step of the project after five years of
work.
The workshop on “The integration of gender dimension
in IWRM: lessons and challenges in the Mediterranean
Region”, organized by the Mediterranean Agronomic
Institute of Bari has been the occasion to evaluate the im-
portant results that have been achieved during the five
years of life of the project and to discuss about future
scenarios within its field of action.
In order to broaden GEWAMED’s scope and horizons,
following CIHEAM General Secretariat’s suggestions:
“Domaines d’actions prioritaires 2010-2013” and looking for
enhancing a deeper integration of women’s role in the rural
sector, IAM-Bari would like to launch a new international
network on “Gender empowerment for a sustainable ru-
ral development”.
The Network would allow to keep the institutional dialogue
open and continue the work of GEWAMED’s Partners with-
out loosing the efforts and the results achieved in these 5
years of project execution, as clearly expressed by the Insti-
tutions and Countries participating in GEWAMED final con-
ference.
CIHEAM, MAI of Bari and MAI of Montpellier organized and participated to 6th Water World Forum
One week to increase global mobilisation around
water questions
12-17 March 2012—Marseille, France
The Italian participation in the 6th World Water Forum 2012 in Marseille has been promoted by the Environmental Coordinating Unit of the Directorate-General for Development Cooperation of the MFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), in agreement with the MELS (Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea). The objective is to coordinate and highlight the global contribution of “Italy’s system” in its public, private and non-governmental dimensions. Upon request of the MFA, the Italian participation is coordinated by CIHEAM
Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari.
The involvement in the World Water Forum 2012 is framed within a general strategy targeted to focus on Italy’s role in international water policies and on its wide range of long-term competencies, offering a harmonized and coordinated image of our country; this is particularly important in view of the worldwide events of the forthcoming years. The World Water Forum is basically the first “pilot” step to assess the feasibility of this strategy, in the framework of the general involvement of all groups interested in a reasoned and sustainable management of water resources...Read more
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Previous events
6th World water forum
For more information about the forum, please visit the official website: ww.worldwaterforum6.org
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Barcelona 2-3 April 2012
The historical changes taking place in the Southern Mediterranean region since December 2010 call for a focused, innovative and ambi-tious response from the European Union. Throughout 2011, the European Commission has established the Neighbourhood countries of the European Union as a key priority and has developed a new strategy, which can be found in two Joint Communications of the European Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
(COM (2011) 200 and COM (2011) 303).
Research and Innovation play a major role in promoting sustainable and inclusive economic growth and job creation. The development of a Common Knowledge and Innovation Space (CKIS) linked to smart growth and the EU's Innovation Agenda is one of the aims of the new strategy of the EU. The CKIS is meant to cover policy dialogue, national and regional capacity-building, cooperation in research and innovation, increased mobility opportunities for students, researchers and academics. In this context, a high-level conference is being held by the European Commission's Research and In-novation DG, in cooperation with other depart-ments, the European Parliament, the EU Mem-b e r S t a t e s a n d t h e S o u t h e r n
Mediterranean countries.
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Upcoming events
Full programme (work in progess): Download here
Organisation of the parallel session: Download here
Learn more Euro-Mediterranean Conference 2012 : Official website…..
The main objectives are:
To define the objectives and main elements of a medium to long term agenda of Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation in Research and Innovation based on the views of leading scientists and senior policy makers as well as the experience gained from ongoing ini-tiatives.
To promote a process of coordination be-tween the European Commission, EU Member States and Southern Mediterra-nean policies and programmes with the aim of enhancing the scientific capacities of the Southern Mediterranean countries, in-creasing the impact and coherence of initia-tives in the region as well as underlining the values of mutual respect, reciprocity and partnership.
The Conference will be opened by the EU
Commissioner for Research, Innovation and
Science, Mrs. Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, by
Mrs. Carmen Vela Olmo, State Secretary for
Research and Innovation Spain, by Mr. Andreu
Mas-Colell, Minister for Economy and
Knowledge Catalunia, Mr. Lahcen Daoudi,
Minister of Higher Education, Scientific
Research and Training Morocco, the Danish
Presidency of the Council of the European Un-
ion and Mr. A. F. Correia de Campos of the
European Parliament.
CIHEAM MAI of Bari will partecipate to Parallel session 1: Water availability and management
The European Commission is organising a high-level Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Research and
Innovation to boost cooperation in the field between the EU and its member states and the Southern Mediterra-
nean partner countries through the development of a Common Knowledge and Innovation Space (CKIS).
For questions please contact conference organizer at: [email protected]
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Mediterranean Agriculture
Exhibitions and Trade fairs
Artozyma Expo Venue: Thessaloniki International Exhibition Centre Country: Thessaloniki, Greece Start Date: 09-Mars End Date: 12 Mars 2012
Horeca Lebanon
Venue: Beirut Central District Country: Beirut, Lebanon
Start Date: 20 Mars End Date: 23 Mars 2012
Agro Expo-Portugal Venue: Parc des Expositions de Braga Country: Braga, Portugal Start Date: 22 Mars End Date: 25 Mars 2012
Djazagro Venue: Safex Exhibition Park Country: Algiers, Algeria Start Date: 23 April End Date: 26 April 2012
Agrifood Club Expo Venue: Veronafiere Fairground Country: Verona, Italy Start Date: 25 Mars End Date: 28 Mars 2012
The International SawSana Festival Venue: Amman International Fair Ground Country: Amman, Jordan Start Date: 25 April End Date: 27April 2012
Medfel: Euro-Mediterranean Fruits and Vegetables Venue: Country: Meknes-Morocco
Start Date: 24 April End date: 26 April 2012
Salon International d’Agriculture au Maroc SIAM-7th edition Venue: Bassin de l'Agdal : Sahrij Souani Ville Ancienne - Meknès Country: Meknes-Morocco
Start Date: 25 April End date: 29 April 2012
Natural & Organic Products : Exhibition and Conference Venue: Amman Motor Show & Holiday Inn Hotel Country: Amman-Jordan Start Date: 16 May End Date: 26 May 2012
SMA Medfood Venue: Sfax Parc des expositions Country: Sfax, Tunisia
Start Date: 23 May End Date: 26 May 2012
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CIHEAM and MAIB latest publications
A Mediterranean Jour-nal of Economics, Agriculture and Environment
n°04 / 2011
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CIHEAM Activities Report
Lettre de veille n°19: Labellisation des produits méditerranéens Watch letter n° 19: Labelling Mediterranean Foodstuffs: Risks and Opportunities
NEWMEDIT
PRESS REVIEW February 2012
Current Events in Euro-Mediterranean Agriculture, Food and Environment
Mediterra 2012
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International publications
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil By Tom Mueller
Scienze Incerta e dubbi dei consummatori:
Il caso degli organism geneticamente modificati (Slow food)
For millennia, fresh olive oil has been one of life's necessities-not just as food but also as medicine, a beauty aid, and a vital element of religious ritual. Today's researchers are continuing to confirm the remarkable, life-giving properties of true extra-virgin, and "extra-virgin Italian" has become the highest standard of quality. But what if this symbol of purity has become deeply corrupt? Starting with an ex-plosive article in The New Yorker, Tom Mueller has become the world's expert on olive oil and olive oil fraud-a story of globalization, deception, and crime in the food industry from ancient times to the present, and a powerful indictment of to-day's lax protections against fake and even toxic food products in the United States. A rich and deliciously readable narrative, Extra Virginity is also an inspir-ing account of the artisanal producers, chemical analysts, chefs, and food activ-ists who are defending the extraordinary oils that truly deserve the name "extra-virgin."
Scienza incerta e dubbi dei consumatori, il caso degli organismi
geneticamente modificati. Questo il nuovo libro di Slow Food Editore con i con-
tributi degli scienziati che hanno partecipato all’incontro promosso dalla Task
Force per un’Italia libera da Ogm. Il titolo scelto per il volume sottolinea la spac-
catura che ancora divide la comunità scientifica su un tema attuale come quello
degli organismi geneticamente modificati. Nomi noti della ricerca italiana espon-
gono dubbi e aperte contrarietà alla coltivazione degli organismi geneticamente
modificati, sulla base di prove solide e argomentazioni razionali, considerando
non solo i rischi ambientali e per la salute, ma anche i problemi tecnici ed econo-
mici. La raccolta dei contributi segue un taglio scientifico, ma ha chiari intenti di-
vulgativi. Learn more about Slowfood movement http://www.slowfood.com/
The Crises of Multiculturalism: Racism in a Neoliberal Age by Alana Lentin & Gavan Titley
Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as
the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to
denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social
cohesion, enemies within cultivated by irresponsible cultural relativism,
mediaeval practices subverting national "ways of life" and universal values. This
important new book challenges this familiar narrative of the rise and fall of
multiculturalism by challenging the existence of a coherent era of
"multiculturalism" in the first place. The authors argue that what we are witnes-
sing is not so much a rejection of multiculturalism as a rejection of lived
multiculture. In documenting mainstream racism and the anxieties that inform it,
Lentin and Titley argue that the crisis is a projection of neoliberal societies'
disjunctures. Combining theory with a reading of contemporary events, it exami-
nes the transnational, mediated nature of crisis itself, and argues challenging this
notion provides activists with a chance to transcend resurgent racism.
Funding opportunities Learn more
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NFP Tailor-Made Training
24 Feb 2012
The NFP Tailor-Made Training programme (TMT) specifially aims to improve the overall functioning of organisations by training selected groups of employees. A Tailor-Made Training is designed to meet the specific needs of the requesting organisation. A Tailor-Made Training
course has a maximum budget of € 200,000.
Who can participate?
The TMT programme is open to a broad range of organisations in the 61 NFP countries, from educational institutions, research institutes and ministries to NGOs and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Read more...
What type of activities can be
conducted?
A Tailor-Made Training is a group training. The programme does not support, for example, seminar attendances and conference visits. To ensure cost efficiency and educational effectively, groups must consist of at least six persons. The maximum size of a group is approximately 20 persons.
Training location and duration
A Tailor-Made Training may take place in the Netherlands, in your own country, in a neighbouring country, or in a combination of these locations. Preference is given to training courses that are partially or entirely conducted in your own country or region.
A Tailor-Made Training must be completed and reported within 12 months after the grant has been awarded.
How to submit a training request
If your organisation is interested in a Tailor-Made Training you can submit a training outline to the Netherlands embassy or consulate in your country.
What to submit
Please submit your Tailor-Made Training outline together with a declaration of acceptance signed by the responsible legal representative of your organi-sation.
Download the training outline format (157 kB)
Download the declaration of acceptance (40 kB)
When to submit
Your outline must reach Nuffic before one of Nuffic's three deadlines. Ask the embassy or consulate what their internal deadline is. If you miss a deadline, your outline is not automatically transferred to the next deadline so you must re-submit it to your em-bassy or consulate.
There are three Nuffic deadlines:
1 April 2012
1 August 2012
1 December 2012
Selection process
The embassy or consulate completes its part of your outline and then forwards it to Nuffic for further selection.
After the deadline, an internal selection committee assesses all outlines against the capacities and needs of the organisations. The committee also looks at feasibility, relevance and linkages with other Dutch government-funded activities. This leads to a ranking of trainings that will be funded.
Download a sample of the internal committee's as-sessment form (22 kB)
Contact: [email protected]
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The process of matching training demand and supply
The process of matching training demand and supply de-pends on the size of the training budget:
Training budgets up to € 50,000:
If your proposed training budget is below € 50,000 there are two options:1. A selected outline: Nuffic directly ap-points a Dutch training provider, who has to submit a training proposal. The proposal will be assessed by Nuffic and your organisation.2. A selected and approved pro-posal, developed together with a Dutch provider: the training can start immediately.
Training budgets between € 50,000 and € 200,000:
Nuffic will publish your training outline as a subsidy Call for tenders.
Interested Dutch providers can submit a bid, either on their own or as the lead partner of a consortium. There are no restrictions on the country of origin of consortium members, but they must meet the same eligibility criteria as the lead organisation.The bids will be assessed by a Tender Evaluation Committee (TEC) consisting of a representative of the requesting organisation, a Nuffic representative and an independent chairperson who is an expert in the subject of the proposed training. The TEC recommends the most qualified applicant after which Nuffic awards the grant to the winning bidder.
Documents
Download the proposal format (238 kB)
Download an explanation of the TEC scoresheet (40 kB)
Download a sample grant award letter (30 kB)
Download the Financial Rules and Regulations (147 kB)
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Combining art, science, sports and adventure
TRIPMARKS : Wolfgang get off at MAIB campus (Valenzano)
for 2 days meetings with MAIB’s community
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Science
Everything is everywhere?
Does the composition of microorganisms collected in the tread of a bicycle tire change while biking around the globe? Or does the bicycle tire function as a vector of microorganisms?
A team of researchers at the Institute of
Microbiology at the University of Innsbruck will
follow up those questions. Prof. Heribert Insam is
supervising the project which will follow classical
microbiological and molecular methods.
The enthusiastic biker and adventurous student
Johanna Mayerhofer will work on the project for her
Master`s thesis in microbiology.
For further information please contact:
Heribert Insam & Johanna Mayerhofer
Heribert Insam, Prof. Dr. Leiter (Head) Institut für Mikrobiologie Technikerstraße 25d E-Mail [email protected]
Dr. Judith Ascher (Ph.D.)
Dipartimento di Scienze delle Produzioni Vegetali,
del Suolo e dell’Ambiente Agroforestale (DiPSA)-
e-mail: [email protected]
CIHEAM– MAI of Bari, February 22- 23 , 2012
from the left : Cosimo Lacirignola (MAIB director) ,Wolfgang Burtscher and Maurizio Raeli (MAIB deputy director)
Home news
Valenzano
February 23rd :
Cosimo
Lacirignola, MAIB
director,
signing Wolfang’s
map route and
greeting
TRIPMARKS
project
Soil samples of the Apulian land on a mountain
bike tires
Wolfgang Burtscher, Austrian artist who, under the
framework of Tripmarks project, will contribute to
a large soil microorganisms analyses.
Soil samples will be taken from the tires of his
bicycle. On 9 February 2012, Wolfgang Burtscher,
riding his bicycle from Innsbruck, got 2 days stop
on 22-23 February at the Mediterranean Agronomic
Institute of Bari, CIHEAM. In 365 days Wolfgang
will cross 15 countries (from Austria to Thailand)
and will pick up at each step, a ground soil sample
from his bicycle tires. The soil samples will be sent
to the Department of Soil Microbiology, University
of Innsbruck, and so far to be analyzed to assess
ties and differences of bacteria contained in the
various soils.
It will be interesting to know what microbiologically
speaking have in common Apulian soil and those of
14 countries included in Wolfgang’s riding route!!
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“ROUTE PERVIEW !!!!”
Route preview from Austria to Thailand crossing about 15 countries
Source: http://www.tripmarks.at/route/
Wolfgang (January 2012) said:
“Early / mid February, I start riding a bicycle through 15 countries and will document my journey with TRIP MARKS, 21 x 21 cm pre-embossed with my tire tread sheets, which are then daily signed with my bike tires and supplemented by GPS coordinates and further information. In addition to the artistic documentation, a scien-tific investigation will be done by Heribert Insam (Institute of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck). There, the genetic fingerprint of the bacteria on the tire tracks will be analysed. Using the denaturing – gradient – gel electrophoresis, changes in the mi-crobial community over the duration of the trip will be analysed and described.
After the travel the TRIP MARKS will be presented within an exhibition. This is a tra-velogue with a difference. On this journey you will find about 365 paper documents and electrophoresis gels, which can be understood as projection screens for wander-lust, dreams andaspirations”.
The project TRIP MARKS combines art, science, sports and adventure in form of a cycling trip.
Stories from MAIB Former Trainees
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Chehidi Hatem was born in El-Kef in 1973. He was graduated as Engineer in Agronomy of semi-arid regions at the Agronomic Institute of El-Kef / Tunisia in 1998. After two years working at NGOD (Non-Governmental Organization for Development) as small farmers’ advisor (PNUD/TN-FAO project) and his interest to further studies on organic agriculture and agro ecology, he was highly qualified to partici-pate in 2000 to the 1
st Mediterranean Organic Agri-
culture Master degree organized by CIHEAM-Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari. In 2002 he has got his Master Degree in Mediterranean Or-ganic Agriculture (MOA) at Mediterranean Agro-nomic Institute of Bari-Italy (CIHEAM-MAIB). His Master thesis research work, after a literature review on agro-environmental indicators to assess sustain-ability in 2001, was a case-study in Apulia organic farm “(DESANTIS farm-Gravina). The thesis work covered a theme on “Prototyping or EAFS-Ecological Arable Farming System- as a new meth-odology to assess and monitor Mediterranean or-ganic farming agro-ecosystem”, supervised by Prof. Razo Enrico, Prof. C. Vazzana (Department of Crop Science and Land Management. University of Florence-Italy) and Dr. D. Petruzzella (MAIB tutor). The research work aimed to test prototyping or EAFS as a methodology to assess and monitor Mediterranean Organic Farming Agro-ecosystems. After his international experience and post-
graduation study at MAIB and back to his country
Tunisia, Hatem was determined to put the acquired
skill knowledge and the theoretical background into
practice in order to participate actively in the develo-
pment of the organic sector as a researcher and
farmers advisor. He has been hired at the Technical
Center of Organic Agriculture (CTAB)/Tunisian Mi-
nistry of Agriculture. Even, at that period, finding a
job was going to be a serious problem in his home
country. Consequently and since December 2002,
he has been involved directly in all CTAB activities
related to develop the agricultural good practices
and promote organic agriculture method. In addition,
he became member in different training and work
sessions on various topics of organic agriculture:
legal framework and legislation, soil fertility, Plant
protection,… organized by CTAB and targeted to
various operators : farmers, Network of regional a-
dvisors, students and young promoters
Chehidi Hatem (Tunisia) Former student MOA 2000-2002
Actually he is member of National Genes Bank Net-work (Cereals and MAPs), CTAB’ Technical Journal editing team member (in Arabic), member of Or-ganic Farms Evaluation committees. Moreover, he participated by several technical documents about organic Cereals and MAPs (Medicinal and Aromatic Plants). Since 2009, he is in charge to leader-Division of communication in CTAB and in February 2012 he was promoted as a Chief-Engineer. A good Development and a significant evolution of the of Organic Agriculture was highlighted in Tunisia from 2000 until now (evolution of area and number of farmers respectively: from 33500 ha (2003) to 403155 ha (2010) and from 550 (2003) to 2669 farmers (2010). The collaboration between CTAB advisors team, under the direction of Prof. M. Ben-keder, and all operators of the sector contributed on that mainly with hard work on training farmers and students, dissemination of organic practices and ensuring technical support to promoters (a Na-tional Strategy, a National regulation and a National Label were elaborated, initiatives to develop local market were initiated). The latest statistics of IFOAM/FIBL showed the Tunisia is ranked 27 in the world, 11 compared to European countries, 2
nd in
Africa and 1st in the Arabic countries in relation to
organic agriculture area. Tunisia is considered the sole country which completely applies a national regulation in African and Arabic countries. In addi-tion, Tunisia was recognized by EU on June 2009 and by Switzerland in May 2011 as a country having an equivalent organic regulation. Thanks to his membership to Former Trainees Network (FTN) which kept him connected with MAIB community and formers course tutors and classmates, he participated actively in the last (2011) follow-up distance learning course on “Advances in Organic Farming in Mediterranean and Balkan area”. During the course activities he pre-sented “Tunisian experience” a Case-study on Com-plementarities and Competition between Organic and Local Food. According to him it was a great e-xperience to come back to MAIB campus after ten years since his Master course study, to meet his old friends and to share new experiences. He usually considers that his experience at MAIB was an e-xcellent opportunity that helps him to open new hori-zons in his life, not only at professional level but al-so for friendship and communication skills.
CHEHIDI HATEM (TUNISIA) Contact email: [email protected] Web site: www.ctab.nat.tn TECHNICAL CENTRE OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE – MINISTERY OF AGRICULTURE – TUNISIA/ CTAB Former student of Mediterranean Organic Agriculture Master course (2000-2002)
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“MAIB MOA Master course former students revealed to be a
key promoters and active contributors to Organic Agriculture
movement and development both at home country and
at Mediterranean level ….. ”
“1st master course on MOA promotion 2000-2001 ”
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Assistance of CTAB’ visitors (farmers, students, foreign visitors…) in the experimental field
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Training sessions for farmers and regional advisors network
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