Thematic files
Seminars and Workshops
Presentations from Experience-sharing event on Technical, organizational and policy levers and obstacles in promoting agroecology in the Mediterranean area – Cairo 17-18 December 2024
Organised by CIHEAM IAMM in partnership with ARC Egypt, this seminar brought together more than 70 people to discuss the dissemination of agroecological practices in the Mediterranean, in the presence of the agriculture ministers of Egypt, Lebanon and Greece
Feedback on the SupMed project
SupMed project: Achievement and lesson learned on Agroecology adoption and performance.
Presentation by Dr Hatem Belhouchette SupMed project coordinator, CIHEAM IAMM scientific administrator
Testimonials and panels for discussing challenges and issues in implementing agroecology-based projects and initiatives
Egypte – Field irrigation development: obstacles, success factors and policy alignment
Presentation by Dr Esam Mohamed Zaki Mohamed, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Department of Agricultural Policy Research and Project Evaluation (in Arabic)
Egypte – Promoting barley cultivation in marginal rainfed areas towards sustainable developmentand food security
Presentation by Dr Heba Gomaa Ali Gomaa, Field Crops Institute, Barley Research Department
The place and challenges of agro-ecological innovations in Algeria: some concrete cases
Presentation by Dr Karima Boudedja, CREAD-Algeria (in French)
Agroecological Initiatives in Morocco: Status and Evaluation
Presentation by Dr Rachid Harbouze, IAV-Hassan-II Maroc
Agroecology in Tunisia: Real Challenges, Dynamics of Questioning and Controversial Transition
Presentation by Dr Fraj Chemak, INAT, Tunisia (in French)
Lebanon – Agroecological practices and market access: can they unlock new opportunities?
Presentation by Dr Elise Noujeim, NGO Fair Trade Lebanon
Agroecology in Lebanon: A field perspective
Presentation by Dr Salem Darwich, Faculty of Agriculture, Lebanese University
Living Labs as a Catalyst to Empower NGOs and Stakeholders in Driving the Transition to Agroecology
Presentation by Dr Georgios Kleftodimos, teatcher and reasercher in CIHEAM IAMM
Agroecology and policy: priority, finding, incentive, trade-offs, skills
Agroecology in the Egyptian context: Policies, initiatives and Bottlenecks
Presentation by Dr Gamal Siam, Professor emeritus, Agricultural Economics department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University
L’intensification agroécologique pour promouvoir l’agriculture tunisienne : état des lieux et analyse critique
Presentation by Dr Chamseddine Harrabi, DG DGACTA- Ministry of agriculture, Tunisia (in French)
Agroecology and policy in Lebanon: a comprehensive overview
Presentation by Dr Salem Darwich, Faculty of agriculture, Lebanese University
Agroecology in Morocco: an overview
Presentation by Dr Fouad Rachidi, Direction of research, cooperation and partnership, National Center for innovation in agroecology, ENA Meknès – Morocco
Greek National Action Plan on mitigating the negative impacts of water scarcity throughSustainable Public-Private Partnerships
Presentation by Dr George Vlontzos, University of Thessaly
Policy support for farmers in Algeria: balancing food security and sustainability challenge
Presentation by Dr Amel Bouzid, research director, CREAD – Algeria
Scientific articles
Al Fakih A., Darwich S., Mauro F. (2024). Typology of agricultural holdings: a starting point for understanding the performance of irrigated systems in Baalbek Al Hermel Lebanon. Technium Sustainability Vol. 5, pp 8-28 (2024) – ISSN: 2810-2991
Master Thesis of CIHEAM IAMM
SupMed project mobilizes PhD and Master students on climate change adaptation strategies issue.
3 Master thesis were carried out during the first steps of the project and supported the collection of datas field, the modelization and testing of the scripts necessary for the design process of bio-economic models in Egypt and Lebanon.
“Multi-criteria analysis of on-farm climate change
adaptation strategies in Egypt”
by KËRTOLLI Emirjona
supervised by H. Belhouchette
Analysing farming systems behaviour while facing water scarcity with the help of bio economic modelling. Case of Baalbek- Hermel, Lebanon
by DUKA Armela
supervised by H. Belhouchette
Evaluating the impact of climate change on agriculture and farmer’s decision-making using bioeconomic models in Luxor, Egypt
by MORINA Anxhela
Supervised by H. Belhouchette