🌿 Blending scientific knowledge with traditional ecological knowledge and translating this into action in the field is critical, and collecting regular feedback from the field was also essential.
⛰️ Working in pilot sites, regardless of size, allowed us to prove the validity of our approach and helped us to scale impact significantly.
🏝️ Community-based approaches such as land stewardship, Himas, and Agdals proved to be essential for successful governance, and sharing these approaches amongst partners was a critical part of building capacity.
🦋 Exploring the themes of cultural landscapes and cultural practices provided great opportunities to communicate and address global environmental, social and economic challenges.
Establishing 5 networks and 123 land stewardship agreements with local farmers in Spain, Greece and Lebanon.
Participatory governance and management plans in Lebanon (4 new Himas) and Morocco (2 Agdals).
Across our sites, 46,000 people are implementing a diversity of cultural practices, and the area under sustainable land management has reached 50,000 ha.
Our members have created and applied 5 certification and labelling systems, achieving better positioning for local products, improved branding, and marketing and support direct sales, involving, for example, 26 communities in the High Atlas, 37 farms in Menorca, 44 farms in Lemnos and Kythera.
The results of our research have been used for advocacy, with significant impacts at global, international, national and local site-levels.
We are Shouf Biosphere Reserve, ANP/WWF, EuroNatur Foundation, Global Diversity Foundation, GOB Menorca, IUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation, Mediterranean Institute for Nature and Anthropos (MedINA), Moroccan Biodiversity & Livelihoods Association – MBLA, Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon, Tour du Valat, WWF-Tunisie, WWF España, Yolda Initiative.
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*The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on the map do not imply any official endorsement, acceptance or opinion by the AMNC and its member organisations that contributed to this work.
🐞Our mission is to recognise, promote and sustain practices that maintain these landscapes, underpinned by our belief that nature and culture are profoundly interconnected and together deliver environmental, social and economic benefits to society.
13 organisations their forces in 2017 to collectively conserve the cultural landscapes and practices of the Mediterranean in:
⛰️three mountain/high altitude sites characterised by traditional farming, grazing, agroforestry and water management practices: the High Atlas mountains of Morocco, Shouf Biosphere Reserve, West Bekaa and Mount Lebanon in Lebanon, and the Taurus mountains in Turkey
🏝️two lowland sites characterised by traditional agro-silvo-pastoral systems: the corridor stretching from Extremadura and Córdoba, Spain, to Coruche in Santarém, Portugal, Kroumirie Mogod, Northwestern Tunisia and Livanjsko Polje in Bosnia-Herzegovina
🌾two island sites characterised by a mosaic of traditional farming, livestock breeding and water management: the islands of Lemnos, Greece and Menorca, Spain