Workshop Sessions > Session 3

Designing/Promoting/Scalling agro-ecologically based farming systems in the MENA region:  can we manage the complex trade-offs between food/nutrition security and the preservation of natural resources under climate change and water scarcity?

Chair:  Bruno Gérard, UM6P, Morocco

Rapporteur: Hatem Belhouchette (CIHEAM, France)

Date: Monday 31 October 2022

Time: 14.00 - 15.30

Discussions based on presentations

• Management of citrus trees inter-row: could the introduction of service crops provide ecosystem services? (Fida Temani, Mariem ben Abdallah et al. ; Tunisia) (7 min.)
   
• Introduction of agroecological practices in vegetables productions in small scale farming system in the Saïs region of Morocco (Ghizlane Echchgadda et al. ; Morocco) (7 min.)
   
• Participatory design and assessment of diversified Mediterranean cropping systems – Method and results for two case studies (Laure Hossard et al. ; Algeria, France, Spain) (10 min.)
   
• Landscape Agronomy: background concepts and emerging challenges to address agri-food system design beyond the farm level (Davide Rizzo et al. ; France and Italy). (10 min.)
   
• Trade-off analysis for promoting cereal and legume production through dedicated technological innovations and incentives for smallholder farmers in the MENA region (Hatem Belhouchette, CIHEAM, France) (10 min.)