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